The Florida Project covers part of a summer in the life of the denizens of motels along US 192, a stretch of highway right around the entrance to one of Walt Disney’s places. It is a world…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:17PMInstagram should probably be billed as a co-star in Ingrid Goes West. Instagram’s rhythms; tap tap, CLICK, an empty heart goes lovely pinkish red; it’s mannerisms, and aesthetic, #perfec…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:44AMLandline, the latest from Gillian Robespierre and Elisabeth Holm, the creative team behind Obvious Child, opens with the sounds of… rutting, I guess is the word I can use in a family publi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:09PMExit, Pursued by a Bear, produced by Barabbas Theatre for their 2017 CapFringe entry and directed by Kevin O’Connell, is a welcome DC introduction to Lauren Gunderson’s pithy, ratatat me…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:21PMTiresias’ Tits is a self-described satirical, surreal, burlesque (fun fact – the author of the ur-source material, The Breasts of Tiresias, Guillaume Apollinaire, is responsible …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:30AMMorningstar is a small chamber drama playing in the basement of Shopkeeper’s on Florida Ave, (a venue whose old wooden floors add quite a bit of natural folly to the performance, some usef…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:25PMThe fallout of the financial crisis is still being thrashed out in full public view, which makes for a terribly difficult documentary subject; we are a long way from knowing where most of it…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:10PMNear the beginning of The Wedding Plan, the latest from Israeli-American filmmaker Rama Burshtein, we find ourselves in an uncomfortable place. Michal, whom we first met at a fortune teller�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35PMThe Lost City of Z is a throwback adventure story. Based on the book of the same name by David Grann, the film follows Percy Fawcett at the tail end of the era of grand discoveries, when it …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00PMNacho Vigalondo’s Colossal is not a film that is terribly interested in explaining things, which probably is for the best in a movie about a woman connected to a kaiju that appears out of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:12PMThe central insight of Barak Goodman’s new documentary, OKLAHOMA CITY, presented by American Experience and airing on February 7th, is that the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Buil…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:29AMOperation Anthropoid was the code name for a mission planned by Czech government-in-exile with the British SOE to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, who was the head of the SS and a primary logi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13AMCaptain Fantastic begins innocently enough, with gorgeous shots of a deer in the wild (Stéphane Fontaine’s cinematography is a standout feature of this film). Then that deer is slaughtere…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:08AMNormal/Magic is a diptych of two magical realism style stories, “Magic for Beginners”, written by Natalie Piegari and directed by Sam Mauceri and “Normal Sea,” where Sam Mauceri slid…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:26PMZero Days begins with a mystery. In 2010, an anti-virus expert from Belarus was tapped to help clients figure out what was going on with virus that had shown up on their networks with alarmi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:40AMFinal Day of the AFI DOCS and it ends with a nice and easy day, just two but sadly for you, I can only talk about the one (well, you won’t regret that in a moment, I promise). I saw two fi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:52AMOne of my favorite strategies for navigating the sheer volume of films in a packed festival is to, on at least one day, let the screening committee do my work for me and put myself in one th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02AMThe Opening Night Gala which featured a new documentary from Alex Gibney on that Stuxnet virus you’ve probably forgotten about called Zero Days. That has a much more prosaic explanation: …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:36PMLove & Friendship opens with a sigh of regret from an unknown and unnamed narrator as one Lady Susan Vernon takes her leave of the Manwarings (pronounced as if that “w” was a booris…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:54AMWe should have known. Beyoncé dropped Formation in February, a song, a music video, and a Super Bowl performance that laid it all out: Yoncé was a black woman, a beautiful, successful, Sou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:57PMIt’s not every day that the world’s greatest entertainer asks the President to become an undercover narcotics agent (and the badge that goes with it, of course). Up until Elvis did it, i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:31PMShakespeare presents a language barrier for actors and audience alike. Typically, companies affect British accents (“received pronunciation” – not everyone is a fan), though many c…
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