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Sarah Hyland arrives at the BAFTA 2015 awards season tea party at The Four Seasons Hotel on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

‘See You in Valhalla’ film offers family comedy-drama

Amid the furor over "Furious 7" and "The Avengers," a lot of great films are being lost in the shuffle. One such offer now open in the District is "See You in Valhalla," starring Sarah Hyland ("Modern Family").

April 28, 2015
After a hitch in the Marine Corps in the 1960s, Scott Glenn tried his hand at acting for a little more a decade when the call came for "Apocalypse Now." (Associated Press)

Scott Glenn used Marine training to help save ‘Apocalypse Now’

The challenges that bedeviled the production of Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" are legendary, but what isn't widely known is how an up-and-coming actor in a minor role salvaged the film set and crew from a typhoon and, arguably, saved its director's life.

April 26, 2015
Miss Sweeney of Austin, Texas, who blazed onto the country music scene in 2010 and by 2013 was nominated as one of the industry's rising female stars, performed a few songs for the veterans and their families, as children danced and sang along in the crowd. (Khalid Naji-Allah/Special to The Washington Times)

Country star Sunny Sweeney, Washington Times salute Wounded Warrior caregivers

It's often called the "nerd prom," the one time of the year when Washington elite, Hollywood celebrities and powerbrokers from around the country descend on the nation's capital to break bread and make light of an often tense and divisive political atmosphere, when even sharp barbs at the leader of the free world are in bounds.

April 26, 2015
From left: Richard Roeper, producer Jon Kilik, Chazz Palminteri and Leonard Maltin at Ebertfest 2015.

Roger Ebert Film Festival screens ‘A Bronx Tale,’ reveals authenticity of characters

Roger Ebert loved movies so much that the longtime film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times returned to his hometown to found his own film festival as a way to champion films he believed were overlooked or in need of greater appreciation. For the 17th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival — better known as "Ebertfest" — the critic's widow, Chaz, introduced Robert De Niro's 1993 directorial debut, "A Bronx Tale."

April 19, 2015
In this image released by A24 Films, Domhnall Gleeson, left, and Oscar Isaac appear in a scene from "Ex Machina." (AP Photo/A24 Films)

Alex Garland writes/directs sci-fi thriller ‘Ex Machina’

Our best science fiction is about ideas rather than laser beams and explosions. "Ex Machina," which opens Friday in the District, is an examplar — an intelligent sci-fi mystery that explores the notions of consciousness, sentience and whether "artificial" intelligence is, in fact, real.

April 15, 2015
In this Friday, March 20, 2015 photo, a maple amber beer is poured at Chatham Brewing in Chatham, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

DC Beer Festival kicks off Saturday at Nationals Park

It's springtime, and the gates of Nationals Stadium in Southwest have officially been thrown open for the season. And just as the Nats begin their April quest for October glory, dozens of craft breweries and food vendors will be taking over the baseball diamond this weekend for the DC Beer Festival Saturday.

April 6, 2015
Ryan Reynolds and Helen Mirren star in "Woman in Gold," a film that tells the story of a woman and a family portrait.

‘Woman in Gold’ film about niece ‘winning’ portrait stolen by Nazis

Most people know it as the "painting on the fridge magnets," but few know the long, tormented history of Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I," painted by the Austrian master in 1907. The work passed to model Bloch-Bauer's Viennese descendents, from whom the Nazis stole it, along with thousands of other priceless works owned by the Austrian capital's Jews.

March 31, 2015
Actor Scott Glenn, who plays former U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld in "W.", poses for a portrait at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Scott Glenn in ‘The Barber’ plays another dark role

Scott Glenn has made a career out of facing the darkness. Perhaps it is little wonder, then, that the 74-year-old veteran of nearly 100 TV and movie roles over a 50-year career accepted the lead role of Eugene in "The Barber," a suspense-thriller that opens Friday in the District.

March 26, 2015