
Guardians of the Galaxy (review)
Marvel’s latest mashup

Have mercy!
Russ Clem turns 70 with an old band

Wish I Was Here (review)
Zach Braff’s Kickstarter vanity

Lucy (review)
Literally mind-blowing

A Most Wanted Man (review)
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last major role

Not your garden variety band
Digging Taters

And So It Goes (review)
Rob Reiner’s latest for grownups

Hercules (review)
Average action from Brett Ratner

Sex Tape (review)
Flaccid gags try too hard

The Tabby Awards
CAT honors its own

The Purge: Anarchy (review)
Another crappy sequel

Richard III (review)
In the classic manner at a classic manor

The Charitable Sisterhood (review)
A world premiere

Begin Again (review)
From the creator of “Once”

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (review)
An effective adventure
VPA / VFO / VCUarts Cinema event
Photos by Cristina O’Connel, VCUarts Photography

Coming up Rosie
Devil’s horns and heavy rock

Third Person (review)
3 stories in 3 cities

Go, Dog. Go! (review)
Free form fun

Snowpiercer (review)
An endless train in a tundra

Tammy (review)
More of the same from McCarthy

Nothing Bland about Jim
Plan 9’s owner is much more

The Dixie Swim Club (review)
A surefire audience pleaser

Transformers: Age of Extinction (review)
Too much more of the same

Never Have I Ever (review)
A teen comedy from Mindy Kaling

Let me give YOU a “dollah”
Save a “dollah” off DVD/streaming for Health Brigade

The Willoughbys (review)
A cheerfully dysfunctional animated family

COVID cinema solution
The Drive-in is returning

Bad Education (review)
Nothing like Almodóvar’s film of the same name

Circus of Books (review)
Gay bookstore owned by a straight couple

Tales from the Loop (review)
Slow, but compelling sci-fi drama

Extraction (review)
Chris Hemsworth gets tough

Legends take their final bows
2 special events for the final week

Code 8 (review)
X-Men without the cool factor

I’m Not OK with This (review)
Shades of Carrie

Quibi (review)
The latest streaming platform

The Better Sister
Crime drama overshadowed by familial chatter

Bring Her Back
Sally Hawkins gets creepy

They dance with their incarcerated fathers
Meet the co-directors of this doc

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
A writer’s block leads to love

Adults
A Gen-Z version of “Friends”

Mountainhead
A tech-bro drama from the creator of “Succession”

Government Cheese
David Oyelowo is the best thing about this somewhat quirky series

Sirens
Julianne Moore plays a weird socialite…or is she?

Friendship
Tim Robinson & Paul Rudd play neighbors

Creating the French Film Festival
Meet the couple behind it

Fountain of Youth
John Krasinski & Natallie Portman search for it

Pee-wee as Himself
A documentary with Paul Reubens

Overcompensating
This coming out comedy has fun moments

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
The 7th film for Cruise isn’t the best

Final Destination: Bloodlines
Still gleefully gory fun after 25 years

Mobland
Tom Hardy is tough but Helen Merren is tougher

Selling Virginia film before
Former Va Film Office Director Rita McClenny

Still growing after 25 years
Dig into VPM’s Virginia Home Grown

Shadow Force
Kerry Washington & Omar Sy on the run

Your Friends and Neighbors
Jon Hamm’s version of Breaking Bad

Nonnas
Grandmothers are the chefs

Another Simple Favor
An unexceptional sequel

Étoile
Paris & NYC ballet companies exchange stars

Thunderbolts
More Marvel misfits in a lukewarm rehash