Mar 07, 2014
Out of Frame: The Bag Man
John Cusack and Robert DeNiro star in this crime drama that’s unpredictable, albeit in the sense that it can summon up memories of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen at any given moment.
Nov 01, 2013
Out of Frame: Last Vegas
LAST VEGAS uses the tits and tropes (if not the gross-out humor) of modern comedy to deliver somber observations about the passing of time as interpreted by a Golden Boys set of seasoned actors.
Dec 06, 2007
Popcorn & Candy: New Wave is Middle Aged
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Repertory: The 400 Blows Expect to see plenty of French New Wave retrospectives over the next year or so, as 2008 represents the movement’s 50th anniversary. If Claude Chabrol’s 1958 Le Beau Serge lit the fuse, François Truffaut’s 400 Blows was the first in a subsequent series of cinematic explosions that announced France’s new generation of…
Dec 14, 2006
Celebrity Stalker Alert
It feels like it’s been a while since anyone truly famous has graced our fair city with their presence, but it looks like that drought comes to an end today. According to an email we received yesterday, Matt Damon and Robert DeNiro are in town (actually in Fairfax, Virginia) today taping a special episode of Chris Matthews’ Hardball. Before you berate us for not passing this tip on earlier, tickets were only available to Mason…