Tag: Entertainment

Alexandria Film Festival offers virtual film screenings

By Alexandria Times staff The annual Alexandria Film Festival returned this year in virtual format, allowing viewers to enjoy a collection of works without going...

Our View: A local treasure

The Alexandria Film Festival has grown during the past 14 years from a creative idea to a firmly entrenched part of our city’s burgeoning...

Barkhaus unleashes dog-friendly bar this weekend

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] Alex Benbassat and Justin LeGore are bringing some dog-friendly fun to Alexandria in the form of Barkhaus, a combination bar...

Ben Affleck grapples with his demons in sports drama “The Way...

By Richard Roeper Jack Cunningham has the moves of a veteran alcoholic. When Jack drinks athome, he puts one can of beer in the freezer to...

Local crowdfunded indie film, ‘The Legacy Sessions,’ bridges generation gap

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] The film industry has ballooned into something ungainly and unsustainable for filmmakers who are trying to create a project without...

13th Alexandria Film Festival brings record numbers

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] More than 1,000 cinephiles flocked to the Charles Beatley Library and AMC Hoffman Center 22 for the 13th annual Alexandria...

Deeyah Khan attempts to understand white supremacists in “White Right: Meeting...

By Luke Anderson | [email protected] In her 2017 documentary, “White Right: Meeting the Enemy,” Muslim filmmaker Deeyah Khan works her way under the skin of...

“The Spy Being Home Plate” details the unbelievable life of a...

By Denise Dunbar | [email protected] Moe Berg was a brilliant man, and Aviva Kempner is an amazing filmmaker. So it’s unsurprising that Kempner’s movie about...

“She’s in Portland” is a beautiful, bumpy ride

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] The open road, a set of wheels and a dream. In the grand mythology of America, they’re the holy trinity,...

SNL, T.C. Williams alum honors her father in short film ‘Daddio’

By Luke Anderson | [email protected] Native Alexandrian Casey Wilson (“Saturday Night Live,” “Happy Endings”) makes her directorial debut in the short film, “Daddio,” which offers...