Maybe it’s the coming spring weather, or maybe it’s the the pandemic devolving into an endemic, but NoVA’s own are debuting some big projects this month. We’ve rounded up our favorites.
MOVIE
The Lost City
A shy romance novelist (Arlington’s Sandra Bullock) sets out on a book tour with her cover model (Channing Tatum) and gets swept up in a kidnapping gone awry, landing her in a jungle adventure that is already giving us delicious Romancing the Stone vibes. In theaters March 25.
BOOK
The American Dream of Braven Young, by Brooke Raybould
NoVA’s Raybould (aka @thesouthernishmama on Instagram, where she has amassed nearly 240,000 followers) penned this children’s book, which should especially appeal to DMV kids. A 10-year-old boy is set completely free in DC, romping around the National Mall and beyond, as he discovers what the American Dream is about.
TV
True Story with Ed and Randall
Alexandria native Ronald Young Jr. is a featured storyteller on this buzzy new Peacock streamer, which takes everyday Americans’ craziest true stories and then dramatizes them in reenactments with guest stars and comedians. Think Drunk History with less drinking, more heart.
MOVIE
Studio 666
Famous NoVA native Dave Grohl and the rest of the Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion heavy with gruesome rock ‘n roll history to record their latest album in this horror comedy, in theaters now.
BOOK
Blue Fire, by John Gilstrap
Gilstrap, the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author who sets most of his books in his native Northern Virginia, continues his new Victoria Emerson series with a post-apocalyptic thriller. Emerson must defend the plucky survivors in the fictional town of Ortho, West Virginia, in the aftermath of nuclear war.
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