DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Coraline Neil Gaiman writes scary stories. Honestly scary. Few writers working today are able to summon the eerie landscape of our nightmares better. These aren’t the hokey bigtime evil scares that usually pass for modern horror. His are the quiet, personal, “things that go bump in the night and just might have nefarious plans” kind of…
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Foreign: This is England After receiving accolades galore at a number of major film festivals, British director Shane Meadow’s autobiographical film is receiving a limited one week run in D.C. starting on Friday. Based on his own experiences coming of age in the UK in the early 80’s, This is England follows 12-year old Shaun, a…
Editorial Disclosure: DCist contributor Jason Linkins has a supporting role in this production Take a little Neil Gaiman, add a healthy dose of Jasper Fforde, infuse with a serious shot of Shakespeare and pepper with clever literary references throughout (and a refreshing amount of silliness), and you have Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Rough Magic, now being showcased by Rorschach Theater as part of the Shakespeare in Washington festival. As a festival entry, this one’s a smart pick…
MONDAY When it comes to issues of globalization, nobody rocks the field like Joseph Stiglitz, whose last book, Globalization and its Discontents, should be a must-read for everyone who thinks they can change the world with a papier-mâché puppet. Now he’s back to discuss the ways of Making Globalization Work. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, at 7 p.m. TUESDAY She’s short. She’s tenacious. She’s stalking Stephen Colbert. No, we’re not talking about Senator…
Goth-dressed fantasy fans? Be prepared for a long line. Political thriller junkies? Dust off your old paperback Clancy copies. Parents of Princess Diaries-obsessed young ones? Ready your little girls. The lineup has been announced for the National Book Festival, to be held on September 24 from 10-5 p.m. on the mall and sponsored by the Library of Congress. This year’s lineup is a mix of favorites from years past and new appearances from esteemed authors….
