Movies playing in town

Movies playing in town10,000 B.C. (PG-13, 109 minutes) Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Independence Day) directs this big-budget SPFX extravaganza. It’s, well, 10,000 B.C., and a hairy, mammoth-hunting hero (unknown Steven Strait) […]

Hello, Goodbye

“New Amsterdam”Tuesday 9pm, Fox This supernatural cop drama was initially slated as part of Fox’s fall schedule, but it got unceremoniously dumped to midseason before it ever aired. The show […]

Theatrical sacrifices [with video]

The shouts in St. Paul’s Memorial Church sound like a cross between ecstatic salvation and eternal damnation, but the man commanding the noise—Jason Kobielus, a lean, dark-haired third-year drama major at the University of Virginia—is almost completely quiet.

At a disadvantage

Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film, Rashomon, features one of the most borrowed/refigured/ripped-off/homaged plot structures in the history of movies. In it, a heinous crime is committed. Four people have witnessed the […]

Movies playing in town

Movies playing in town27 Dresses (PG-13, 107 minutes) Jane (Katherine Heigl) is always a bridesmaid never a bride. Literally. She’s served as bridesmaid at 27 weddings. Now she’s being forced […]

The Big O

“Big Brother”Tuesday 9pm, Wednesday & Sunday 8pm, CBS Due to the strike (which is over! Yay!), CBS brought back its tacky summer reality staple early this year. The twist this […]

Along comes a spider

We live in an era when kids’ films are almost as creatively bankrupt as romantic comedies. The Spiderwick Chronicles, based on the young adult book series by Holly Black and […]