Asphalt City
The gritty job of EMS in NYC with Sean Penn
The Wages of Fear
A French remake of the nitroglycerine transport thriller
Constellation
Outer space drama goes quantum & loses impact
Problemista
Julio Torres uniquely quirky autobiographical comedy
3 Body Problem
Sci-fi from the Game of Thrones creators
Annual check-in from the Virginia Film Office
Andy Edmunds looks at 2023 & 2024 (including the new movie in town)
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
The latest sequel is even worse
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
Wacky, absurd fun about an English highwayman
Road House
Jake Gyllenhaal as the quiet but violent bouncer
The New Look
Dior & Chanel during and after WWII
Apples Never Fall
Annette Bening goes missing in this family drama
The American Society of Magical Negros
A racial satire that lacks bite or humor
He’s played so many foreigners and villains
Tom Belgrey on lots of films and TV roles
Knox Goes Away
Micheal Keaton directed & stars as a contract killer
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
The pop sensation gives a spectacular show
Death and Other Details
Another murder mystery on an ocean liner
One Life
Anthony Hopkins as a man who saved 669 children from Nazis
Love Lies Bleeding
Another lesbian romance with bloody aspects
The Gentlemen
Guy Ritchie’s first streaming series
Being in front & behind the camera simultaneously
Donna Bailey works teleprompter
Cabrini
America’s 1st saint aids orphaned Italian migrant children
Damsel
Millie Bobby Brown thrown in a cave with a fire-breathing dragon
Ricky Stanicky
A funny film from half of the Farrelly Bros
Iwájú
A beautiful 1st-time collab with Disney featuring the culture of Lagos
Anora
A sex worker & oligarch’s son go crazy & get married
Time Cut
Teen time travel plus a serial killer
Don’t Move
An edge-of-your-seat experience
We Live in Time
Andrew Garfield & Florence Pugh in a romantic weepie
The Penguin
Colin Farrell unrecognizable and undeniably creepy
Smile 2
The return of the killer grin
Teacup
An alien entity terrorizes a farm family
Conclave
Drama behind electing a new Pope
Grotesquerie
A detective & a nun go after a serial killer
A new doc on Georgia O’Keeffe
From Charlottesville director Paul Wagner
La Máquina
Longtime friends Gael Garcia Bernal & Diego Luna team up again
Brothers
Peter Dinklage & Josh Brolin play criminal twins
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
This Oscar-nominated producer’s new film
RVA native Michael Gottwald
The Four Seasons
Three couples vacation thru the year
The Surfer
Nicolas Cage wipes out
The Studio
Seth Rogen’s Hollywood studio satire
Havoc
Tom Hardy gets violent…again
Rust
In honor of slain DP Halyna Hutchins
The Accountant 2
Ben Affleck is back as a math savant
Leaving the weather after 41 years
Meteorologist John Bernier retires
The Shrouds
Useless sci-fi drama from David Cronenberg
On Swift Horses
Challenging romances in the 50s
A Nice Indian Boy
Not a gay rom-com but a rom-dram
G20
Viola Davis as a kick-ass POTUS
Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie
A self-created documentary
Sinners
A vampire thriller with Michael B. Jordan as twins
The 4th annual industry update
VFO Director Andy Edmunds is back
The Ballad of Wallis Island
A slighty-quirky, heart-warming indie
The Amateur
Rami Malek in a spy flick without much action