All the Old Knives
Chris Pine & Thandiwe Newton as ex lovers/CIA agents
Stopped at 2
Six series that weren’t worth continuing
Tokyo Vice
Ansel Elgort & Ken Watanabe take on the yakuza
Meet the animators of CRYPTOZOO (podcast)
Richmonders Jane Samborski & Dash Shaw made the Sundance Award Winning film
Morbius
Jared Leto as the latest Marvel character
The Bubble
A Judd Apatow comedy about making a movie during COVID
Julia
A series about Julia Child & her famed cooking show
You Won’t Be Alone
An arty, bizarre folk tale
Windfall
A civilized home invasion
Mass
Parents come together to heal after a horrible tragedy
Oscar nominee David Crank
His experience at the Oscars plus the movies he’s designed
The Lost City
Sandra Bullock & Channing Tatum on a romance novel adventure
Flee
An animated doc about an Afghan refugee
2 murder mysteries featuring women
Pieces of Her (Netflix) and The Thing About Pam (NBC/Hulu)
RRR (Rise Roar Revolt)
The biggest Indian action film ever gets 5 stars!
Just for Spring: 3 freezing treks
Infinite Storm (New Hampshire), Against the Ice (Greenland) & Black Crab (Sweden)
Violence from different times & places
Vikings Valhalla (Netflix) & X (in theaters)
Meet the screenwriter of 3 Spike Lee films (podcast)
Kevin Wilmott will be In town for the James River Film Festival
Two stars face ghosts in their new films
Regina Hall (Master) & Sandra Oh (Umma)
Portraits of 2 disgraced internet founders
The Dropout (Theranos) & Super Pumped (Uber)
2 new from comedy director Paul Feig
Minx (feminist porno) & Welcome to Flatch (mocumentary quirk)
Deep Water
Ben Affleck’s sullen character lets his wife wander to save their marriage
The Outfit
Mark Rylance plays a tailor for gangsters
Fresh
Right off the bone!
Cassandro
Gael Garcia Bernal as the famed gay wrestler
The Other Black Girl
A new girl shows up and things get weird
Expend4bles
Can you believe they’re back?
The Retirement Plan
Nicolas Cage has some action fun
Central Lunatic Asylum for Colored Insane
One of Shawn O. Utsey’s docs
A Haunting in Venice
A Hercule Poirot mystery with a twist of suspense
Love at First Sight
Could have been called “Love at First Flight”
Robots
Humans get in trouble with their twin robots
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
The whole family goes to Greece
He slips his brass duck in the shows he works
Dennis Madigan in the Art Department
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Two teen boys become close
Hypnotic
Ben Affleck’s sci-fi search for his daughter
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