They’re doing research for a film about the Pentagon Papers.

A rhyming companion piece to the Nazi-hunting film Labyrinth of Lies, Bridge of Spies is an old-fashioned tale of justice, served cold.

With Virginia celebrating the filming of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Councilmember Vincent Orange (D-At Large) wants D.C. to step up its attractiveness to movie productions, but his bill to do so was a critical dud.

Steven Spielberg’s biopic of the nation’s 16th president is but a pale and fairly lifeless approximation of the conflicts that tore the nation apart.

Nostalgia is a wonderful drug. It’s warm, fuzzy, romantic, and kindles misty-eyed daydreaming, looking on the past through a lens that softly filters even the hard times until they take on a warmer, richer color. Or, if you’re JJ Abrams, one that blots out the screen in blue lens flares of every imaginable shape and size.

Photo by drtana. Virginia has won out over a few other Southern states to be the home of Steven Spielberg’s production of his film about Abraham Lincoln. Starring Daniel Day Lewis, the movie will be filmed in Richmond and Petersburg. Virginia offered $4.6 million in tax breaks and incentives to Disney and Dreamworks to get entice them to film in the Commonwealth. It turns out though, that Virginia offered the fewest in tax breaks…

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We suppose the awards season has officially begun when the ‘Best Of’ lists start arriving in our mailbox, though it certainly feels like the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association has managed to get theirs out at a conspicuously early time each year since it began giving awards in 2002. Maybe they’re just trying to be the first out of the gate, and thus guaranteeing themselves a little ink in the inevitable pre-Oscar roundups. Or…