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Nov 11, 2016

Alien Visitors In ‘Arrival’ Seem To Ask: Can’t We All Get Along?

You’ve seen this before; but today it may have a different resonance.

Aug 16, 2013

Lee Daniels’ The Butler Is Way Too Tasteful And Tepid

From the actors playing the presidents to the film’s central figure, we see people holding themselves back in the name of propriety.

May 23, 2012

The Butler Casting: Lyla Garrity As Jackie Kennedy, Hans Gruber As Ronald Reagan

The cast announced for a film about the life of longtime White House butler Eugene Allen has some pretty inventive choices for actors playing four decades’ worth of presidents and first ladies.

Dec 11, 2006

D.C. Film Critics Awards Announced

It must be hard out there for a Washington film critic. You’ve got big-city cinema dreams, but you’re stuck in a town where politics is usually the order of the day. The number of people who turn to you as the last word in quality filmmaking is probably frustratingly small considering the size of the media market you’re working in. So what are our humble D.C. area film critics to do? Well, as we’ve noted…

 
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