Betty
Female skateboarders in New York
Sex/Life
More the former than the later
Werewolves Within
A whodunit with a lycanthrope
The Ice Road
Liam Neeson stays chill under pressure
2 comics with very different projects
Bo Burnham’s COVID show & Iliza Shlesinger’s autobiographical film
The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard
The sequel adds Salma Hayek to the action
Broadway in Richmond is back!
5 new shows plus 2 from last season
2 Italian fantasies
THE MAN WITHOUT GRAVITY and live-action PINNOCHIO
The Sparks Brothers
About a band you’ve prob never heard of
Two unhappy housewives
Rose Byrne in PHYSICAL & Annie Murphy in KEVIN
Shows back for season 2
7 of my favorite shows returning
Fatherhood
Kevin Hart gets serious
Censor
A film hits close to home
The Byrd is back!
Movies plus beer & wine
Queen Bees
Retirement community Mean Girls
In the Heights
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 1st musical
Worldwide plague or backwoods horror
AWAKE & WRONG TURN rehash familiar themes
Lisey’s Story
Stephen King’s novel stars Julianne Moore
Sweet Tooth
A hybrid between human & animal
A Quiet Place Part II
This sequel takes them off the farm
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
More of the same
Cruella
The origin of Ms. de Vil
Two comedies from unique perspectives
A Muslim punk band & Korean convenience store
Walled In (review)
Discovering Thoreau’s Walden in prison
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
From the popular book about a teen girl
Evil Dead Rise
The 5th & possibly worst in the series
Visit the Goochland Drive-In
Co-founder John Heidel describes the modern experience
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
The title sums it up, not a doc but a drama
Ghosted
Chris Evans & Ana de Armas on a fun spy adventure & she’s the spy
The Power
Girls develop the power to electrocute
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
Jake Gyllenhaal as a vet who fights to save his translator
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
The highest-grossing video game adaptation ever
A gripping doc about a refugee mom
Meet the producer & director of Anahita, a mother’s journey.
Renfield
Featuring Nicolas Cage great fun as Dracula
The Diplomat
Keri Russell becomes the British ambassador
Extrapolations
A series of climate change dramas with a big name cast
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