Mr. and Mrs. Smith
The married spies flick is updated & dragged down
Driving Madeleine
A French charmer with surprising depth
Badland Hunters
More kickass action in post apocalyptic Korea
Petersburg’s Blair Underwood
Being in ORIGIN and other shows
The Zone of Interest
Family life next to a concentration camp
Griselda
Sophia Vergara plays the notorious drug “Godmother”
Miller’s Girl
Yet another student seduces her teacher
Origin
Based on Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
I.S.S
US vs USSR in space
Double Feature Podcast
Virginia Screenwriters Forum & Winter Horrorland Fest
All of Us Strangers
An intimate story of redemption with Andrew Scott & Paul Mescal
The Book of Clarence
A Biblical story with a Black angle
Mean Girls
From the musical adapted from the 2004 flick
The Kitchen
This social drama has nothing to do with food
The Curse
Cringe comedy at its most tedious
The Beekeeper
Jason Statham doing what he does best
Remembering Gene Wilder
Meet the makers of this doc
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
A Different Man
An actor dealing with neurofibromatosis
A unique visual music album & documentary
Meet the creators of SONGS FROM THE HOLE
Joker: Folie à Deux
Phoenix and Gaga singing and smoking
Nobody Wants This
Kristen Bell & Adam Brody make a charming couple
Two new mediocre thrillers
Salem’s Lot (Max) & Hold Your Breath (Hulu)
The Substance
Demi Moore tackles age in a creepy way
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
The latest true crime series from Ryan Murphy
IATSE is the union for film/TV technicians
Meet our local rep Dave O’Ferrall
Megalopolis
Coppola’s new film features some masterful filmmaking
Will & Harper
Road trip with Will Ferrell and his transgender friend
Wolfs
George Clooney & Brad Pitt team up for verbal sparring
Lee
Kate Winslet as the famed war photographer
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