The International Spy Museum is opening an exhibit in March that will showcase the high-tech vehicles seen in more than a dozen Bond films.
It’s no Skyfall, but it’s a solid, if ultimately bureaucratic, thriller.
Judi Dench is starring in an upcoming BBC movie, the filming of which caused a lot of rubbernecking by Maryland drivers.
The release of any new James Bond film is cause for looking back on the series to date. Here’s what our staff thinks of the many adventures of MI6’s Agent 007.
James Bond’s 23rd big-screen adventure rocks hard, somberly and even mournfully. It doesn’t celebrate the glamorous lifestyle of a dashing spy so much as it makes you worry about him and his Ma’am.
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Son of Rambow This appears to be, hands-down, the cutest movie that will be released all year. Two skinny British kids with an (unhealthy?) obsession with Stallone’s second most famous alter-ego decide to make a Rambo-inspired action film of their own. It’s the sort of thing that thousands of kids around the world probably did as…
As wine professionals, this is the time of year when we go into overdrive helping you, the consumer, fulfill all of your wine needs for parties and gift giving. As wine lovers, we relish being able to share our love of wine with others. We know that buying wine anytime can be an overwhelming an experience, but possibly more so now that you have to cover your family, friends, co-workers, and a mystery person whose…
Blogger, itinerant rock critic, and former NPR Arts Editor Bill Wyman had a fine piece in yesterday’s Washington Post introducing the Moby Quotient, the formula he and, uh, “hyperbolic geometry” expert Jim Anderson have devised for quantifying exactly how egregiously a given artist has sold out when they license one of their songs to an advertiser. (Moby, in case you don’t know, won the dubious honor of having this formula named after him for his…
Don’t let the threat of Polonium poisoning crush your dreams of becoming a spy or the inevitable prison sentence keep you from robbing a bank. We understand your desire to solve ancient religious conspiracies shrouded in mystery and international intrigue, but perhaps you don’t want to get your hands dirty. Joshua Czarda, the brains behind Ravenchase Adventures, has a solution. He and his crack team of writers and actors want you to step inside a…
If you’re not in the habit of drinking an aperitif before dinner, it’s a fun one to embrace every so often. Like skinny jeans, Rod Lavers, and shag rugs, aperitifs are retro without the kitch, like the two-martini lunch days of yore but less boozy. As you’ve likely noticed of expats at Italian, French, or Greek restaurants around town, an aperitif is part of the every day dinner ritual for many Europeans. “How very continental…
