
Bad Times at the El Royale (review)
Bad times for a mediocre movie

Between Riverside and Crazy (review)
An interesting location

Gutenberg! The Musical! (review)
The audience plays potential backers

Venom (review)
Tom Hardy isn’t Marvel-ous

The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey (review)
Another tragic teen murder

Artsies 2018 recap (5 videos)
Watch all the videos from the event

Artsies Announced!
Here are the recipients IN BOLD of the 11th Annual Richmond Theatre Critcs Circle Award (the nominees are also listed). Check back Monday afternoon for

Smallfoot (review)
A Yeti discovery

Love, Gilda (review)
A doc on the comic’s too short life

A Star is Born (review)
Lady Gaga extends her star power

Night School (review)
Comedy power duo teams up

Farenheit 11/9 (review)
Michael Moore is back

Assassination Nation (review)
A modern witch hunt

Blaze (review)
Based on Foley’s life

Bel Canto (review)
An unusual hostage situation

The Laramie Project (review)
A 20th anniversary commemoration

The Wolves (review)
The name of the girls’ soccer team


Significant Other (review)
Single in the city

Lizzie (review)
Miss Borden is back to hack

Mandy (review)
More Nicholas Cage than Barry Manilow

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (review)
Virgina Rep’s only non-musical

The Predator (review)
Back for the 4th time

Living in the Key of “B” Unnatural (review)
A local premiere

Flee
An animated doc about an Afghan refugee

2 murder mysteries featuring women
Pieces of Her (Netflix) and The Thing About Pam (NBC/Hulu)

RRR (Rise Roar Revolt)
The biggest Indian action film ever gets 5 stars!

Just for Spring: 3 freezing treks
Infinite Storm (New Hampshire), Against the Ice (Greenland) & Black Crab (Sweden)

Violence from different times & places
Vikings Valhalla (Netflix) & X (in theaters)

Meet the screenwriter of 3 Spike Lee films (podcast)
Kevin Wilmott will be In town for the James River Film Festival

Two stars face ghosts in their new films
Regina Hall (Master) & Sandra Oh (Umma)

Portraits of 2 disgraced internet founders
The Dropout (Theranos) & Super Pumped (Uber)

2 new from comedy director Paul Feig
Minx (feminist porno) & Welcome to Flatch (mocumentary quirk)

Deep Water
Ben Affleck’s sullen character lets his wife wander to save their marriage

The Outfit
Mark Rylance plays a tailor for gangsters

Fresh
Right off the bone!

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