Aug 02, 2013
Out of Frame: 2 Guns
2 Guns, a competent action movie, asks the question: Can there be honor among thieves?
Dec 10, 2007
D.C. Film Critics Honor No Country
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…
Jul 17, 2007
Marion Barry. You Can’t Hold A Candle To Him…
Mayor-For-Life Marion Barry continues to amaze us. Not only is he utterly untouchable by the long hand of the law, but he is an amazing politician; he just keeps getting elected to practically anything for which he’s run. Now, he’s even won a race he wasn’t actively campaigning for: Barry (or his likeness, rather) was selected to fill the last slot at the forthcoming Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Penn Quarter. The museum, which will…
Sep 19, 2004
George Clooney on Capitol Hill Tonight
(From DCist contributor Hemal Jhaveri) Is George Clooney going to the be the next Arnold? We, and every other media outlet, can only speculate. The Reliable Source gives us a heads up that the former ER doc will be hitting the Hill tonight:Washington’s favorite celebrity hunk, George Clooney, is back in town. Tonight he’ll be at a fundraiser at Lounge 201 on Capitol Hill for his father, Nick, who’s running for Congress as a Democrat…