Movie Review: ‘White Bird’ with Helen Mirren

October 3, 2024

By Dina Gold “Choose Kind,” the movement sparked by R.J. Palacio’s best-selling novel “Wonder” (and the subsequent film starring Owen Wilson and Julia Roberts), is a concept we could all […]

Mother Tongue Film Festival: Frybread Face and Me

February 22, 2024

Frybread Face and Me follows two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds as they bond during a summer on their grandmother’s Arizona ranch, learning more about their family’s past and […]

Profs & Pints DC: Titanic Mistakes

March 22, 2023

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Titanic Mistakes,” an in-depth analysis of what doomed the famous ship, with Vincent Brannigan, professor emeritus of the University of Maryland’s Clark School of Engineering. […]

BLOOD RELATIVES Theatrical Run + Live Q&A with Writer/Director/Star Noah Segan

November 17, 2022

Join us at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Crystal City on November 21, 2022, at 7:00 PM for a special screening of BLOOD RELATIVES and a live Q&A with writer/director/actor Noah […]

Movies on the Potomac

April 11, 2022

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md., March 30, 2022—National Harbor brings back its popular Movies on the Potomac series from May 1 through September 30. Every Thursday (“date night”) at 7 p.m. and Sunday […]

[jxjdc.org/persian-lessons/]Persian Lessons (film)

July 23, 2021

  Wednesday, October 20, 7:00 PM | Cafritz Hall Dir. Vadim Perelman| 120 min | Narrative | USA | 2020 English, French, German, Italian, and Persian with English subtitles Gilles, […]

[jxjdc.org/the-auschwitz-report]The Auschwitz Report (film)


  Thursday, September 9, 7:30 PM | Cafritz Hall Dir. Peter Bebjak | 94 min | Narrative | Slovakia | 2020 German, Polish, Czech, and Slovak with English Subtitles Slovakia’s […]

[jxjdc.org/powder-keg]Powder Keg (film)


  Thursday, September 2, 7:30 PM | Cafritz Hall Dir. Ole Christian Madsen | 106 min | Narrative | Denmark | 2020 Danish with English Subtitles The harrowing journey of […]

[jxjdc.org/ronnies]Ronnie’s (film)


  Wednesday, September 1, 7:00 PM | Cafritz Hall Dir. Oliver Murray | 102 min | Documentary | United Kingdom | 2019 | English A joyous and visually stunning film […]

Announcing Chesapeake Film Festival’s Live Showing of Environmental and Dramatic Films October 1-2 

July 1, 2021

Free Virtual festival runs October 3-10 Easton, MD, June 24, 2021–Remember the excitement of watching films on a big screen with surround sound in a darkened theater among other film […]