
A Native American Rock Opera at the French Film Fest (podcast)
A chat with the producer of the featured film

Gold
Zac Efron in the desert with a big nugget

Turning Red
Pixar’s latest aim for older girls

Joe vs. Carole
The Tiger King “dramatized” with John Cameron Mitchell and Kate McKinnon

The Adam Project
Time traveler Ryan Reynolds meets his match in his younger self

Lucy & Desi & Andy
New docs on the Ricardos and Warhol

The Batman
Robert Pattinson goes very dark, as does the film

Plan 9 author & Oscar snubs (podcast)
Meet the book’s author and hear Oscar snubs with a guest reviewer.

Huda’s Salon
A political thriller from Palestine

The Tourist
Fargo with an Aussie accent and Jamie Dornan

After Yang
Colin Farrell & family cope with the loss of their technosapien

The Weekend Away
Leighton Meester embroiled in a murder in Croatia

Our Flag Means Death
Rhys Darby as a gentleman pirate

Somebody Somewhere
Bridget Everett comes home to Kansas

Mending Walls: The Documentary (podcast)
Hamilton Glass, Matt Lively & Pam Hervey discuss creating the doc

Studio 666
Foo Fighters in a horror comedy

The Worst Person in the World
Norway’s Oscar entry for Best International Film

Two (or 3) women in peril
No Exit (Hulu) & the Girl Before (HBOMax)

Abbott Elementary
The season’s funny new hit TV comedy

Cyrano
Peter Dinklage stars in this musical version

Uncharted
Tom Holland & Mark Wahlberg go for a new action franchise

New News Show & LA Production Designer (podcast)
VPM’s Focal Point & Michael Perry, designer of 2 new movies

Dog
Channing Tatum with a canine co-star

Big Bug
From the French director of AMALIE and THE DELICATESSEN

97 Minutes
Yet another airplane hijacking (is it as good as Idris Elba’s?)

The Equalizer 3
Denzel takes on the Mafia in Italy

Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose
Not as quirky as the title suggests

Stories from Succession to Keno Pool
Filmmakers Rick Wallace & Justin Geldzahler

Special Ops: Lioness
Taylor Sheridan’s version of a spy thriller

Who is Erin Carter?
A school teacher with a secret explosive past

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
Sigourney Weaver stars in the deep, dreary melodrama

Bottoms
Lesbians start a fight club to bed cheerleaders

Retribution
Liam Neeson’s latest action flick takes place in a car

Investing in THE KILL ROOM & THE WIZ
BK Fulton, CEO of Soulidifly Productions

Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story
A game player ends up a real driver

Full Circle
A complex and confusing drama from Steven Soderberg

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