TRAILER – The Reluctant Fundamentalist from PartyLiciouS Entertainment on Vimeo. Both the title and the trailer of Mira Nair’s “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” (now playing…

I recently finished Jenell Williams Paris’s book The End of Sexual Identity. The book is a very mixed bag, but one thing which…

“4000 Miles,” playing at the Studio Theatre in DC through May 5, opens when twentysomething college dropout Leo turns up unexpectedly at his grandma’s New…

Probably not where she expected it. The feminist author retweeted a post saying that this New York Times piece by Susan Straight, “Making Babies,…

In “No,” the new satire about the ad campaigns waged by both sides in the 1988 vote that led Augusto Pinochet to step down, the…

Every year the AFI theater in Silver Spring puts on a “DC Noir” film festival, because they are wonderful people who should be rewarded…

Last year I quit drinking, and read a ton of Dostoyevsky. Sadly, I was unable to play the Dostoyevsky Drinking Game–which I recommend…

As we handed over our tickets to see Michael Haneke’s Oscar-nominated “Amour,” the ticket-taker said, “Theater is on your right. Enjoy!” My companion,…