The institution plans to demolish the Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater to make room for an expanded cafeteria.

Just as Tarantino brings film back to the multiplex, albeit for a limited time, one of the great film experiences in the area is about to make the switch to digital.

You guys, the National Air & Space Museum is exclusively screening a new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s INTERSTELLAR.

The best movie ever made is coming back—and it’ll be in IMAX 3D.

If you’re like me, you’re tired of just having plain old IMAX in D.C., via the two traditional IMAX screens at the Smithsonian’s Natural History and Air and Space museums. What do we want? The IMAX Experience®, of course, which just sounds sexier, and which you can get at the multiplex instead of having to go to a museum like some tourist. Well, our prayers have been answered, because we can begin experiencing® IMAX here in D.C. instead of just, oh, I don’t know, watching it, starting on September 9, when a newly-outfitted IMAX-esque screen opens at the AMC Georgetown.

We hope you didn’t miss Look Up too much while your Space Editor was up to other things during the past month. Your weekly astronomy fix is back, however, so pull up a lawn chair and dim the porch light. Actually, our first event comes with its own chairs. Hubble 3D opens at IMAX theaters this Friday, March 19. A private world premiere event was held at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum…

News broke this afternoon that the AMC Tysons Corner theater is all set to launch its IMAX expansion. The IMAX section of the theater is scheduled to open to the public on Friday, March 5, and reporters have been invited to a pair of preview screenings, of Under the Sea 3D, this week to check it out. The Going Out Gurus noted the development earlier this afternoon. The only problem is that this likely…

For those of you who have never had the pleasure of being right up close at a U2 concert, let me divulge a spoiler: Bono — a.k.a. Paul Hewson, a.k.a. The Fly, a.k.a Mr. MacPhisto, champion of Africa and two-time Nobel Prize nominee, debt-relief crusader and F-bomb-dropping bane of the Federal Communications Commission, the big-brained, big-hearted, big-mouthed and wholly unembarrassable front man for The (all together now!) World’s Biggest Band — is a wee, short…