The Starling
Melissa McCarthy uses a bird to cope
War in Pieces
4 one-act plays written by vets
Vincent River
A grieving mom meets her son’s boyfriend
Cop Shop
Murderous mayhem at a police station
My Son
James McAvoy & Claire Foy are a missing boy’s parents
Blue Bayou
A 30-year US citizen faces deportation
Cry Macho
Clint Eastwood’s latest crusty old man
Every Brilliant Thing
Coping with depression thru a list
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
The biopic taken from the doc
The Card Counter
The latest character drama from Paul Schrader
Kate
Mary Elizabeth Winstead exacts revenge
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
The first Asian hero in the Marvel Universe
The Voyeurs
A steamy view out the window
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
A clever musical look at relationships
Everybody’s Talking about Jamie
A musical about a 16-year-old drag queen
Candyman
Revisiting the thriller
He’s All That
An updated gender-switched Pygmalion
Guilt
Consequences of a hit and run
Worth
Compensating 9/11 victims
Cinderella
A pop musical take on the classic
2 Netflix foreign series
The Defeated & Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes
New company in new digs (video)
Illuminated Stage at the Perkinson Center
The Night House
Another haunting
Clickbate
Social media becomes deadly
No Hard Feelings
Jennifer Lawrence in her first “sex comedy”
Glamorous
Makeup mogul Kim Catrall mentors Miss Benny
Primo
A comedy about a teen & his 5 uncles
Close
A touching story of two 13-year-old boys
The Blackening
Friends play a deadly game of Black trivia
The Flash
The best DC superhero flick in a while
A doc about the 1st EMTs then a sex comedy
First Responders & A Look in the Rear View
Elemental
Pixar’s latest merges fire & water
Maybe I Do
Great cast in a mildly entertaining comedy
Somewhere Boy
A boy trapped at home til he turns 18
Based on a True Story
An entertaining satire on true crime podcasts
Blood & Gold
Violent Nazis look for treasure
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
Ana de Armas takes on the action
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