Good intentions don’t make a good movie, and Snitch doesn’t work as the action movie it’s set up to be or the social drama it tries to be.

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Indie: Romance & Cigarettes John Turturro’s third film as a director is the sort that seems tailor made to become a cult classic. Not nearly polished or glamorous enough to be the sort of Broadway to big screen musical hit that Chicago or Hairspray was, it was too oddball to fit into the heads of most…

After a long wait, CityDance Ensemble Rehearsal Director Christopher K. Morgan finally gets to see his face on the silver screen. In December of 2003, Morgan was cast as a dancer in John Turturro’s film Romance & Cigarettes. After filming in 2004, the movie faced some setbacks and became what the Associated Press referred to as “the luckless orphan of corporate shuffling.” More than two years after its original release date, Romance & Cigarettes…

Between remakes of The Stepford Wives, and sitcoms ranging from “Desperate Housewives” to “Weeds,” it’s easy to think the catty, sterile, back-stabbing nature of suburbia has been played out recently as a topic for satire. It turns out that all you need is some super show tunes and some women who can fly to keep the genre fresh. The Witches of Eastwick, making its U.S. premiere at Signature Theater, after a successful run in London…

If anyone knows if there is a Mimi Slocum-type character living in Georgetown, we want to interview her. As you can see from this colorful scene from “Igby Goes Down,” Susan Sarandon, playing the pill-popping, neurotic Georgetown socialite Mimi Slocum is sitting on her maid. Though most of “Igby Goes Down” takes place in New York, the scenes involving sheltered affluence in Georgetown is always entertaining. (Do good Georgetown children kill their mothers, as…

In today’s Reliable Source, Richard Leiby reports that comedian Chevy Chase unleashed a “potty-mouthed … rant against President Bush” at liberal advocacy organization People For the American Way’s annual “Spirit of Liberty” awards at the Kennedy Center Tuesday. (Disclaimer: this DCist works for PFAW) Thus far conservative news outlets Newsmax and online gossip Matt Drudge have picked up the story, although both rely on the Post’s coverage. He is seen here before the show in…