Tag: review

By Mae Hunt It’s 1587 and Mary, the Queen of Scots, is near death and embroiled in a rivalry with her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. The...

By Mae Hunt Signature Theatre’s production of “Into the Woods” opened on Nov. 9, but have no fear, there’s still plenty of time to see...

By Denise Dunbar | [email protected] The international showcase in this year’s Alexandria Film Festival contains four films, one each from South Africa, Russia, Iran and...

By Lindsey Sullivan | [email protected] As part of its bi-annual review of the memorandum of understanding between Alexandria schools and the Alexandria Police Department, the...

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...

By Jordan Wright In an extraordinary adaptation of “Phantom of the Opera,” Director Paata Tsikurishvili re-envisions the Phantom’s world – not as an opera, but...

By Richard Roeper Very few movies really get inside the edgy, exhilarating, heart-stopping, self-destructive mindset of the hardcore gambler. There’s "The Cincinnati Kid," "Rounders” and the...

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...

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...

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,...