Lift
Kevin Hart eschews comedy for this heist bomb
Memory
Jessica Chastain & Peter Sarsgaard connect in this heavy drama
Self Reliance
Jake Johnson wrote/directed/stars as a man dodging death on reality TV
Boy Swallows Universe
Kinda like an Australian version of Shameless
Foe
Saoirse Ronan & Paul Mescal play lovers in the future
Society of the Snow
Surviving a plane crash in the Andes
Starting Virginia’s oldest production facility
Guy Spiller “rewinds” back to the early days, plus AnalogRetentive
American Fiction
A satire on Black literature & white culture
The Brothers Sun
Michelle Yeoh heads a gangster family
Good Grief
Dan Levy wrote, directed and stars in this drama
Fool Me Once
Harlan Coben’s 8th thriller for Netflix
The Boys in the Boat
An underdog rowing team wins gold
What is NoVa Motion Pictures?
Meet the co-founder Robert Kendzie
Anyone But You
A romcom that’s all about Glen Powell
A Murder at the End of the World
A whodunit in a frozen locale
Culprits
Someone is killing everyone involved in a heist
The Family Plan
Mark Wahlberg as a dad with a killer past, literally
Ferrari
A summer in the life & love of the car maker
The Color Purple
The movie of the musical inspired by the movie of the novel
From backyard wrestling to the Beach Boys tour
Joe Carabeo stays busy writing, shooting and directing
Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire
Zack Snyder’s space opera
Bookie
A fun, funny series from Chuck Lorre
Maggie Moore(s)
Jon Hamm & Tina Fey get romantic solving a murder mystery
Poor Things
Emma Stone in stylized weirdness from Yorgos Lanthimos
AfrAId
Alexa on steroids = danger!
This world premiere is the opening nite film at RIFF
Meet Eric Esau & Douglas Haines
Slingshot
A space drama with Casey Affleck & Laurence Fishburne
American Dreamer
Peter Dinklage & Shirley MacLaine star
The Killer
John Woo still has it
The Deliverance
The latest demonic possession thriller isn’t
Strange Darling
A psychological thriller told out of sequence
Blink Twice
An island paradise gets dark
She goes from pain to purpose
Meet Mary & the producer of this doc
The Crow
The classic revisited 30 years later
Between the Temples
Carol Kane gets a bat mitzvah
Bad Monkey
Vince Vaughn at his best in this crime drama
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