Even though the Pentagon has no problem helping out a movie like Transformers, it found The Avengers too unrealistic to lend its support.
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Pentagon OK With Giant Space Robots, but Not Team of Superheroes
Out of Frame: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is predicatable and sentimental, but the acting makes it a pleasant enough stay.
Out of Frame: The Avengers
After six films worth of buildup, The Avengers contains something to entertain the comic book collector as well as the contemporary Hollywood fan boy.
Popcorn & Candy: Sex and Silents Edition
DCist's highly subjective, thoroughly uncomprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.
Out of Frame: Monsieur Lazhar
In Monsieur Lazhar, the characters, adult and child alike, navigate treacherous cultural and emotional minefields, and the resulting dramatic tension and resolution is genuinely moving without being maudlin.
Out of Frame: Margaret
Kenneth Longeran's long-shelved Margaret is so contrived and ham-handed that its successes are mostly drowned in its failures.
Popcorn & Candy: Habemus Puppy Edition
DCist's highly subjective, thoroughly uncomprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.
Out of Frame: The Lady
This biopic of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi tries to capture turmoil. But its blandness does not end with its title.
Popcorn & Candy: Nice Lady Edition
This week, see Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, grisly Korean action thrills, Japanese morality plays and German expressionism.
FilmFest DC: Blood, Snow and Jazz Edition
Tonight at FilmFest DC, a movie that might make you think twice about that cell phone, one that will make you ponder what it means to be a good guy in the face of adversity and the untold story of the female instrumentalists in jazz.
FilmFest DC: Eastern Spirituality Edition
Tonight at FilmFest DC, a double dose of Eastern spirituality with the story of a Tibetan Buddhist teacher and an exploration of why people practice yoga.
FilmFest DC: Odd Couples
Some of the films playing this weekend at FilmFestDC are full of mismatched couples.
FilmFest DC: Why Is My Body Changing?
The characters in the films screening on the first full day of FilmFestDC are going through all kinds of changes.
Out of Frame: The Cabin in the Woods
Joss Whedon's meta-horror movie will satisfy the gore hungry. But it's not just another formula slasher.
Out of Frame: Bully
Bully is probably preaching to the choir paying to see it, but if that choir becomes a little more aware of what their children are up to, the movie will have done its job.
Popcorn & Candy: When Pigs Fly Edition
DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.
Out of Frame: The Long Day Closes
"The Long Day Closes" has stunning production values, but its impressionistic collage of memory adds up to little more than a glorified scrapbook."
Out of Frame: The Hunter
"The Hunter: charts no new territory, but Willem Dafoe, the Tasmanian wilderness, and an elusive tiger keep your interest.
Popcorn & Candy: Global Cyclops Edition
DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.
Out of Frame: Mirror Mirror
Fairy tales are not just about living happily ever after. They play upon our most acute childhood fears: abandonment, incompetence, powerlessness. Mirror Mirror adds two contemporary fears to this list in the form of Julia Roberts and Nathan Lane.
Out of Frame: The Kid with a Bike
Like a good fairy tale, The Kid with a Bike traffics in childhood fears. Like a good movie, it tugs at the heart strings without falling into maudlin sentiment.
Popcorn & Candy: Why is My Body Changing Globally Edition
This week, coming-of-age films from Greece and Indonesia, retrospectives on Gene Kelly and Robert Bresson and a low-budget, high-concept sex comedy from South Korea.
Out of Frame: The Raid: Redemption
As brutal and frenetic as The Raid: Redemption is, it’s brilliantly staged. It's not for everyone, but if you think it is, you'll love it.
Out of Frame: The Hunger Games
Move over, Harry, Bella, et al. The big-screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games opens today, starring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, the heroine in the middle of a teenage deathmatch.
Omar Dirty Bastard: The Wire Star to Play Wu-Tang Rapper in Biopic
Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Michael K. Williams, who played Baltimore's noblest vigilante, Omar Little, on The Wire, will star in an upcoming film about the Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard.
Popcorn & Candy: Fish and Fowl Edition
DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.
Out of Frame: The Turin Horse
At the end of the cinematic hardship that pervades The Turin Horse, you may happy to know that it's Béla Tarr last film.
Out of Frame: Casa de mi Padre
Will Ferrell in a telenovela? It sounds like a great idea, but Casa de mi Padre strays a little far from what makes Spanish-language soap operas so fun to watch.
Popcorn & Candy: Music, Mouchette and Mutts Edition
DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.
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