“Why would I want to see a movie about Facebook?” I’ve been hearing this a lot, whether its online, from friends or on Bill Maher’s television show. There’s a perception that The Social Network is simply another step in Facebook’s inevitable march toward societal domination. At worst, a periphery marketing tool, and at best, a movie about a website; and who wants to see that?

Mid-December has arrived, and with that comes the inevitable flood of best-of lists. The Washington Area Film Critics’ Association has, for the previous five years of its existence, been in the habit of trying to get their own list out ahead of most of the other critics’ societies. We can’t really blame them. Considering the fact that none of the critics from the city’s biggest newspaper are members, not to mention the fact that the…

Can’t anyone get D.C. right? Today the Post’s Reliable Source reports that Nicole Kidman’s newest thriller, The Invasion, makes a number of relatively amateur mistakes in trying to use the District as a backdrop, even though a good part of it was filmed here. Among those: – Kidman, who plays a D.C. psychiatrist, buys magazines at one of those big sidewalk newsstand kiosks — the ones all over New York but not on any corner…

When the afternoon’s labor hangs about your neck like so many albatross carcasses, their limp beaks slicked with the sweat of eight hours’ worth of futility, when the sun hangs low in the air like a thug-strewn rock on its downward trajectory into the skull of an unsuspecting bicyclist, when the administrative assistant two cubes down sashays off to happy hour, leaving you sick with the thoughts that such a treasured sixty-minute span might ne’er…

With a whimper and not a bang. That’s how the series ended. A slow and thoughtful episode follows the Santos Administration as they move into the Oval Office and the Bartlet administration as they pack up and leave the White House. Santos takes the Oath of Office (with a series creator Aaron Sorkin looking on) while everyone else just mopes around, at a loss for what to do. CJ and Charlie wander around their now…

A night of highs and lows for the latest West Wing. The episode picks up where we left off last week, with Josh and Donna rushing to the hospital to check on Leo. Annabeth meets them and tearfully (what’s up with her raccoon eyes?) tells them Leo died. It’s sad sad sad. Josh is pretty stricken with the news. Later, C.J. has to tell President Bartlett, and it’s equally moving. While the scenes were well…

We knew this day had to come. This morning, the Washington Post’s witty and sardonic Lisa de Moraes clued us into the fact that this will indeed be the last season of the political drama The West Wing. NBC execs are cancelling the fictional White House drama, now in its seventh season, due to poor ratings and, we might add, totally boring story lines. The series finale is scheduled to air on May 14th with…

How many West Wing fans are left out there? For the loyal few left, this post is for you. The West Wing returned with an all new episode this past Sunday night at 8 p.m. on NBC. Due to dismal ratings last season, the show has been shuffled to the back of the pack in their lineup. NBC execs are hoping it will stand up against ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Fox’s The Simpsons,…

“The West Wing” returns for its sixth season tonight at 9 p.m. on NBC, unfortunately going up against Game 7. When we last saw our public policy heroes they were in various levels of distress, dealing with the fall out from a terrorist attack on a visiting American delegation in the Gaza Strip. The car bomb killed Adm. Fitzwallace (sniff) and various members of Congress but spared Congresswoman Wyatt (the mother of Toby’s kids) and…