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By KELLY JANE TORRANCE | 06/13/13 07:50 PM
With classified National Security Agency documents just made public by contract worker Edward Snowden and the trial of WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning continuing, it's the perfect time to see the important documentary...
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By KELLY JANE TORRANCE | 06/13/13 06:35 PM
As with most subjects, it was William Shakespeare who described the summer blockbuster most succinctly: "a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing."
OK, fine; those lines from "Macbeth" are...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/13/13 03:00 PM
Sitney is festival director of AFI Docs, the Washington-area documentary film festival running Wednesday through June 23.
Can you tell us about the festival?
The festival has been around for 11 years; it's a film...
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By KELLY JANE TORRANCE | 06/11/13 03:40 PM
Where would you want to spend your final hours on Earth? Alone to contemplate amongst majestic mountains? With a beautiful man/woman on a secluded beach? Or with your best pals, just about anywhere?
Jay Baruchel hasn't...
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By JAKE COYLE | 06/09/13 05:50 PM
NEW YORK (AP) -- The suspense thriller "The Purge" topped the weekend box office with a shocking $36.4 million that doubled industry expectations, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Audiences starved for a horror...
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By ROBERT FULTON | 06/09/13 03:50 PM
Catching a flick outside during the summer in the D.C. metro area has become as much a part of the culture as traffic on the Beltway and Metro disruptions. Multiple neighborhoods in and around the District offer weekly...
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By KELLY JANE TORRANCE | 06/06/13 08:30 PM
"Fill the Void" is a foreign film, but it opens with a scene that will be familiar to many Americans: a young person checking out a potential mate at a grocery store.
Well, almost familiar. Americans don't usually think...
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/06/13 07:25 PM
Films of Esther Williams:
"Andy Hardy's Double Life," 1942
"A Guy Named Joe," 1943
"Bathing Beauty," 1944
"Thrill of a Romance," 1945
"Ziegfeld Follies," 1946
"The Hoodlum Saint," 1946
"Easy to Wed," 1946...
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By JAKE COYLE | 06/06/13 07:25 PM
NEW YORK (AP) -- Archie's old Riverdale gang is headed to the big screen.
Archie Comics announced Thursday that Warner Bros. will produce a live-action film based on the comic's characters, including Archie, Betty,...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/06/13 04:55 PM
Besides being a two-hour infomercial for Google, "The Internship" is an unending collection of greeting-card sentiments about true happiness and a watered-down meditation on the generational schism in a modern economy....
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By MARK TAPSCOTT | 06/04/13 11:45 PM
Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta disclosed top secret information about the Navy SEALS unit that conducted the mission on which Osama Bin Laden was found and killed, according to an unpublished Inspector-General...
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By NIKKI SCHWAB | 06/04/13 03:25 PM
What, exactly, does a jazz flute have to do with journalism?
Fans of the 2004 comedy "Anchorman" know that it was the jazz flute that was used by one Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) to attract his fellow news reporter...
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