Pistol
Danny Boyle tells the story of The Sex Pistols
Eiffel
About the engineer who designed the tower
Downton Abbey: A New Era
The family & staff are back at the elegant estate
Fire Island
A group of friends at the famous gay beach
Men
Rory Kinnear plays all but one of them
Top Gun: Maverick
The sequel jets in 30 years later
Meet the makers of 2 docs at RIFF (podcast)
Kathleen Ermitage (Mixtape Trilogy) plus Joan Borsten Vidov & Nadia Tass (Oleg)
Senior Year
Rebel Wilson returns to hi school 20 years later
Emergency
3 men of color find a passed-out white girl
Meet 2 directors showing at RIFF (podcast)
Peter Luizi (Princess) & Cory Choy (Esme, My Love)
Incentives to lure production to Virginia (podcast)
Andy Edmunds (VA Film Office) & 2 reps of the VA Production Alliance
New angles on 2 classics
An updated Man Who Fell to Earth & making The Godfather
Happening
Seeking an abortion in 1963 France
Mainstream
A wild role for Andrew Garfield
Vortex
Dementia in split screens
The Duke
A true story about an art theft
The Pentaverate
Mike Meyers plays 7 characters in his new comedy
Two RVA women talk about their docs (podcast)
Sasha Waters Freyer & Michele Poulos
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Cumberbach is back as the Marvel magician
Killing snakes & killer baby
2 unique new dark comedies
Under the Banner of Heaven
Andrew Garfield investigates Mormon murders
Moon Knight
Oscar Isaac one or more Marvel characters
The Survivor
True story of a boxer who lives thru Auschwitz
Two gay Movieland movies
Men in Russia & women in France
All the Light We Cannot See
A blind woman & a Nazi soldier share a broadcast
Quiz Lady
Awkwafina & Sandra Oh play sisters, but not how you’d expect
Fingernails
Using this body part to gauge compatibility
What Happens Later
Meg Ryan stars & directs David Duchovny
Anatomy of a Fall
A murder drama that won Cannes’ Palme d’Or
The Magic of Horror Festival goes south
Two filmmakers discuss their entries
Killers of the Flower Moon
Scorsese’s whodunit in the Osage nation
Old Dads
Bill Burr’s stars & directs a trio dealing with woke culture
Dicks: The Musical
This raunchy gay musical is worse than it sounds
The Royal Hotel
US backpackers end up bartending in the Outback
She Came to Me
Peter Dinklage plays a composer with a block
The Continental: From the World of John Wick
Three prequels set around the killer hotel
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