DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. On the Waterfront One of the defining films of the ’50s, Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront stars Marlon Brando in one of his most mesmerizing performances, as a former boxer working as a longshoreman on the New York City waterfront. When he witnesses a crime that could put away the dictatorial mob boss who also runs…

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Reds This week at Popcorn & Candy we bring to a close our completely unintentional three week series of leading with Communism-linked films. And Warren Beatty’s career-peak Reds is a fitting trilogy conclusion, as it combines elements from both featured films of the last two weeks. Reds and Zhivago share a common setting (the Russian Revolution)…

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Repertory: The Third Man The AFI continues to please with yet another showing of an absolute must-see classic. Last week it was The 400 Blows, and this week it’s three showings of Carol Reed’s gripping British noir, The Third Man. Based on a story and a screenplay by Graham Greene, the movie is a study in…

In what could be described as either the rebirth of Fear Factor or Anthony Bourdain’s dream come true, TasteDC.com — that hard-hearted harbinger of haggis — has organized the 1st Annual Unique and Unusual Food and Wine Festival. Scheduled for Wednesday, October 25 at the Women’s National Democratic Club in Dupont Circle’s Whittemore House, the festival will spotlight both rare ingredients and seldom seen animal parts that will make you moan with delight or squirm…