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
Wolf
A man thinks he’s the titular creature
Queenpins
Kristen Bell leads a coupon scam
C’mon C’mon
Joaquin Phoenix gets a tender role as an uncle
A trio of new Holiday flicks
One’s mostly drag, one’s gay, one’s gay-adjacent
Twisted Metal
A video game adaptation with Anthony Mackie & Stephanie Beatriz
Happiness for Beginners
Ellie Kemper & Luke Grimes in a trite romance
Talk to Me
An embalmed hand possess teens
Hijack
Idris Elba fights to save the flight
She’s on The Big Door Prize & lots more
Cocoa Brown has a long list of credits
Theater Camp
A summer showbiz retreat for kids
Warrior
A marvelous martial arts series conceived by Bruce Lee
The Beanie Bubble
The rise and fall of the popular “baby”
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
The French Film Festival wraps
Changes, challenges & closing
The Phoenician Scheme
The latest from Wes Anderson
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Jacob Elordi suffers in a POW camp
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