“Help me Mr. Lucas and Mr. Mullany, you’re my only hope!”

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Repertory: Labyrinth Jim Henson continued to indulge the darker doors of his mind that he’d thrown wide open with The Dark Crystal in this, regrettably his last feature film. How a film made by Jim Henson and George Lucas, and starring David Bowie managed to tank as badly as this did upon release is a mystery,…

Our friends over at DC Metblogs have been all a flutter over the recent unveiling of USPS mailboxes decorated to look like R2D2, and we can hardly blame them. R2 is, after all, secretly the most powerful leader of the Rebel Alliance. So thanks to Flickr user epmd for snapping this shot of a new R2 mailbox in downtown Washington and adding it to the DCist Photo pool. In fact, Flickr users all over the…

Ah, the halcyon days of summer in the District. It’s disgusting out there. The air is as thick and soggy as a piece of french toast made by a six-year-old, but nowhere near as delicious. Animal instinct tells us to head directly for the nearest cool, dark cave and commence with the removal of clothing. But we are not animals. We are civilized urban aesthetes. We shall head to the cinema. We shall bathe…

Kriston Capps over at Grammar.police takes a look at two very different pieces of District architecture, the Italian Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue and the Mies van der Rohe-designed Martin Luther King Jr. library downtown. The Italian Embassy has always been a favorite of this DCist, sort of Florentine villa-meets-George Lucas fantasy type of deal, if such an architectural intersection is permitted. Then there’s the central library, which Capps doesn’t think is well suited to be…