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
Happy Death Day 2U (review)
Yet another unoriginal sequel
$5 Movie Tix!
Celebrate Movieland’s 10th birthday
Capernaum (review)
Oscar nominee for Foreign Film
Alita: Battle Angel (review)
Another dystopian future
The Invisibles (review)
Jews hiding in Nazi Berlin
Becky’s New Car (review)
Driving thru a mid-life crisis
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (review)
More of the same
Cold Pursuit (review)
Liam Neeson in the snow
Performance in a bathroom, literally
A limited theatrical event
Waitress (review)
From the movie to a musical
What Men Want (review)
A gender-switch remake
Broadway In Richmond’s new season
Seven shows including HAMILTON
Dirtwoman Premiere
The hometown premiere at RIFF
Once (review)
From the movie to the stage
They Shall Not Grow Old (review)
World War I like never seen, literally
Cold War (review)
Poland’s entry into the Oscars
Oedipus, A Gospel Myth (review)
Greek with a twist
Stan and Ollie (review)
Famed duo nears the end
Escape Room (review)
Deadly environments
Serenity (review)
Film noir with a twist
Shoplifters (review)
One of this year’s Oscar noms
Cyrano de Bergerac (review)
The classic revisited
Crimes of the Future
Cronenberg’s latest creepy film
Casting for movies, TV & commercials (podcast)
Advice & stories from Casting Director Anne Chapman
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)
The Life of Chuck
A meditation on existence
Echo Valley
Murder drama with Julianne Moore & Sydney Sweeney
Straw
Tyler Perry’s bank hostage drama starring Taraji P. Henson
Deep Cover
Improv actors go undercover
Dept. Q
A solid mystery from Scotland
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