Ian Buckwalter

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• Posted There's Something About Lulu to DCist
  Angel Torres and Sara Barker in Washington Shakespeare's production of Lulu. Photo by C. Stanley Photography. Lulu is bad news. Don't believe me? Just take a glance at the couch that resides immediately in front of front row, center, in Washington Shakespeare Company's production of this Nicholas Wright-penned mashed-up adaptation of two notorious Frank Wedekind plays. There you'll find the trail of broken hearts and broken bodies the seductress leaves in her wake, in...
• Posted Popcorn & Candy: Cultish Personality to DCist
  DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. The Room There are a lot of bad movies out there. Most fade into obscurity, as what makes them so awful is that they're simply forgettable wastes of time. Yet every now and then a bad movie comes along that becomes a timeless classic based solely on its staggering ineptitude. These films set the standard by...
• Posted Out of Frame: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans to DCist
  Baby did a bad, bad thing: Lieutenant McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) during a reflective moment in the midst of his usual drinking, leching, and lying. It's difficult to enter into Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans expecting a comedy. That's despite a title more ridiculous and unwieldy than even a CSI spin-off would accept, and a trailer that features star Nicolas Cage waxing rhapsodic on his lucky crack pipe, and instructing some henchmen to...
• Commented on Popcorn & Candy: Unfinished Business
  You and me both, pal. And Rodriguez has already finished shooting; they're in post now, and they've set a release date for April of next year....
• Posted Popcorn & Candy: Unfinished Business to DCist
  DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno Lost in La Mancha proved that documentaries about aborted films could be compelling films in their own right. Failure is magnified when there are millions of dollars — and million-dollar egos — on the line, so it's no wonder that the drama of dashed filmmaking makes for compelling viewing. In that spirit comes...