
Bruce Miller named Executive Director
Bringing 44 years to an (almost) close

Red Velvet (review)
London’s first black actor to play Othello

On the Basis of Sex (review)
RGB is back

The Upside (review)
Kevin Hart chills

Black and Red (video 1:42)
Meet the actor playing Ira Aldridge

Talk Radio (review)
This play from the 80s is still relevant

Roger B. Heard and the Tight 45 (review)
The first review of 2019 is a world premiere

Ben is Back (review)
A Hedges family project

Aquaman (review)
An underwater superhero

Eric Bogosian talks about TALK RADIO
Excerpts from my interview with him in 1988

If Beale Street Could Talk (review)
Love in 70s Harlem

Holmes & Watson (review)
Sherlock Holmes loses this case

Mary Poppins Returns (review)
Disney takes on their beloved hit

Bumblebee (review)
Transformers made human-ish

Vice (review)
Christian Bale as Dick Cheney

Welcome to Marwen (review)
A documentary brought to life

Mary Queen of Scots (review)
Another period drama

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (review)
Multiple animated spiders

Mortal Engines (review)
Steampunk cities on giant treads

At Eternity’s Gate (review)
Van Gogh back on screen

The Mule (review)
Eastwood hauls drugs

The Favourite (review)
Not the typical royal drama

Anna and the Apocalypse (review)
High school holiday musical with zombies

The Wizard of Oz (review)
The movie to the stage

He designed Watergate for Gaslit (podcast)
Tracy Smith designs sets for hit TV shows

The First Lady
Roosevelt, Ford & Obama on Showtime

Women behind bars & in sci-fi stories
ROAR for sci-fi & HARD CELL for prison comedy

Two English scandals
A modern one on Netflix, while Amazon goes historical

Pachinko
An epic Korean family drama

The Northman
Alexander Skarsgård in a dark Viking saga

The Bad Guys
Animated stereotypes try to be good

Local actor Irene Ziegler is a First Lady (podcast)
Her role in the new Showtime series and more

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Nicolas Cage playing himself

Heartstopper
The sweet gay romance with 52 million built-in fans

Slow Horses
Disgraced MI5 agents led by Gary Oldman

Outer Range
Yellowstone with a sci-fi chasm

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