Captive State (review)
Aliens have already attacked
Climax (review)
Trippy, literally
Giant Little Ones (review)
Old and new teenage trama
Birds of Passage (review)
Drugs from a different perspective
The Wedding Guest (review)
Dev Patel as an action star (kinda)
Broadway Bound (review)
Neil Simon gets serious
EAT ME, BITCH!
As any Dirtwoman fan knows, Donnie grew up in Oregon Hill, where he was notorious for peeling garlic at Mamma Zu’s (and selling flowers out
Captain Marvel (review)
Brie Larson flies in
PAINT ME, BITCH!
SPIDER MITES OF JESUS: THE DIRTWOMAN DOCUMENTARY will have its Hometown Premiere on April 25, 7:15, Byrd Theatre as part of the Richmond International Film
Apollo 11 (review)
Fascinating new footage
An Act of God (review)
10 new commandments
Pride and Prejudice (review)
The Austen romance on stage
Captain Marvel (review)
Brie Larson dons superhero duds for this latest entry into the Marvel Universe, where she’s pitted against alien races in a battle for the galaxy
Fighting with My Family (review)
Mostly in the ring
Greta (review)
Hell in a handbag
Everybody Knows (review)
Iranian director goes to Spain
In My Chair (review)
TED Talk 6 years later
Every Brilliant Thing (review)
More than a one-man show
Isn’t It Romantic (review)
Rebel Wilson plays against type
ROMA plays RVA
Oscar-winner plays for 2 shows only
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World(review)
The final installment
Arctic (review)
Alone in the cold
Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (review)
THE PLAY: Stephen Sondheim’s classic about a barber consumed by vengeance, who dispatches his victims with his blade and sends them to be cooked into
Women’s Theatre Festival
Featuring 4 shows and then some
Pistol
Danny Boyle tells the story of The Sex Pistols
Eiffel
About the engineer who designed the tower
Downton Abbey: A New Era
The family & staff are back at the elegant estate
Fire Island
A group of friends at the famous gay beach
Men
Rory Kinnear plays all but one of them
Top Gun: Maverick
The sequel jets in 30 years later
Meet the makers of 2 docs at RIFF (podcast)
Kathleen Ermitage (Mixtape Trilogy) plus Joan Borsten Vidov & Nadia Tass (Oleg)
Senior Year
Rebel Wilson returns to hi school 20 years later
Emergency
3 men of color find a passed-out white girl
Meet 2 directors showing at RIFF (podcast)
Peter Luizi (Princess) & Cory Choy (Esme, My Love)
Incentives to lure production to Virginia (podcast)
Andy Edmunds (VA Film Office) & 2 reps of the VA Production Alliance
New angles on 2 classics
An updated Man Who Fell to Earth & making The Godfather
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