The King’s Man
The origin story of the Kingsman spy series
The Lost Daughter
Olivia Colman considers her role as a mother
Death to 2021
A satirical roundup of the year’s news
Red Rocket
Simon Rex as a washed up porn star, plus a definition of the title
Landscapers
A husband & wife kill and bury her parents
Licorice Pizza
The latest from Paul Thomas Anderson
Station Eleven
A post-apocalyptic series with a virus
Jimmy Carr: His Dark Material
An English comic with a very twisted mind
A Journal for Jordan
Michael B. Jordan stars & Denzel Washington directs
Matrix Resurrections
An exceptional 4th installment
The Tender Bar
Ben Affleck stars & George Clooney directs
Claws
Four seasons of trashy fun
Nightmare Alley
Bradley Cooper as a mentalist in Guillermo del Toro’s new film
Coming in 2022!
This short audio file (1:18) gives you a quick sample of the new SIFTER Podcast.
The Velvet Underground
A artsy documentary on the band
Swan Song
Mahershala Ali faces a futuristic dilemma
The Hand of God
An Italian boy’s coming of age
Don’t Look Up
End of the world satire with an all-star cast
Two Marvel TV series
Hawkeye & Loki come to Disney+
Being the Ricardos
Behind the scenes with Lucy and Ricky
The Unforgivable
Sandra Bullock as an ex-con
Two new “alien” encounters
Invasion on Apple & Encounter on Amazon
Is “Sex” better uptown?
And Just Like That… (the Sex/City reboot) and Harlem
West Side Story
Spielberg’s new version
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Worth the effort to download Roku
Barbie
Delightfully lives up to the hype
Composer for Marvel, DC and Star Wars
David Glen Russell
Oppenheimer
Cillian Murphy as the father of the nuclear bomb
Disquiet
Jonathan Rhys Meyers trapped in a hospital
They Cloned Tyrone
Blaxploitation goes sci-fi
Bird Box: Barcelona
The same alien invasion happens in Spain
Sound of Freedom
An intense drama about child sex trafficking
Ashland Theatre celebrates 75 years
New GM Courtney Caldwell & Hugh Joyce fill us in
Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Tom Cruise is back for another thrill ride
Survivor of the Thickest
Michelle Buteau gets a much deserved star turn
The Tutor
Who’s teaching who and what lessons?
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