Surface
Did she fall overboard or was she pushed?
Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
A satire about megachurches
I Came By
Hugh Bonneville is a long way from Downton Abbey
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Idris Elba plays Tilda Swinton’s Djinn
They were on BLOWN AWAY
Grace Whiteside is the Netflix hit’s 1st non-binary contestant
The Invitation
A wedding party gets bloody dangerous
2 hits spin-off anthologies
Tales of the Walking Dead & American Horror Stories
Me Time
Kevin Hart & Mark Wahlberg try to be funny
The Samaritan
Sylvester Stallone goes superhero-ish
Mo
Another culture comedy starring Mohammed Amer
Beast
Idris Elba fights a might lion
Meet the hosts of The Good Road (podcast)
Earl Bridges & Craig Martin launch season 3
Spin Me Round
A trip to Italy gets romantic?
The Resort
A mystery on vacation
The Sandman
A fantasy centers around Morpheus
Secret Headquarters
Owen Wilson plays a superhero & lousy dad
This Fool
A funny show about a Mexican American family
Fall
2 women trapped on a 2000-foot tower
More production vocabulary plus a film series (podcast)
The Created Equal Film Series
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies
A house party turns deadly
2 extreme action flix
Day Shift (vampires) & Carter (zombie-adjacent)
2 period TV series featuring females
Paper Girls (80s) & A League of Their Own (40s)
Emily the Criminal
Aubrey Plaza gets into credit card scams
Thirteen Lives
Ron Howard’s version of the boys trapped in the flooded cave
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
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