Here is some quality, “thank God I live in DC” entertainment available to you for zero or very little dollars this week.
Click on links for more details and plan your dates away:

Monday:
Dollar movie night is here, just like it is every Monday. Today on the docket: Invention of Lying and Zombieland @ Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse. People say “Invention of Lying” was bad but for a dollar, you can afford to risk it.

Also, not a movie but in the realm of acted-out entertainment: Woolly Mammoth does a “pay what you can” performance of their new play “Last Cargo Cult”

Tuesday:
Psychotronics bring you “The manliest male man film ever made for men who wear spandex.” Megaforce screens at 8pm @ The Warehouse

+ even more pay-what-you-can theatre

Then after a couple of quiet days:

Saturday:
Gregory Peck and his amazing jawline take center stage in the fight for the right thing when To Kill a MockingBird screens at noon @ National Archives.

and the National Gallery of Art kicks off their Chekhov series with Nikita Mihalkov’s An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano at 4pm, which borrows from several early Chekhovian works, including Fatherlessness and The Bear and the play Platonov, director Nikita Mikhalkov succinctly captures the writer’s 19th-century society “engaged in endless conversation that covers up its intrinsic, self-pitying paralysis”

and continues on

Sunday
with the Washington Premiere of Russia’s contender for Best foreign language film this year. Ward No. Six screens at 5pm and is a story about a psychiatric warden who ends up as a patient in his own institution.

If I missed anything, let me know in the comments. Sharing is caring.