The Prom (review)
The movie of the Broadway hit
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (review)
Chadwick Boseman’s last performance
Superintelligence (review)
Melissa McCarthy for HBO Max
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom debuts at Movieland
Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman star
Stardust (review)
David Bowie-ish
Dirtwoman for the World!
Documentary now streaming everywhere
Wayne (review)
My favorite new comedy
Uncle Frank (review)
Gay in the 70s from Alan Ball
The Last Vermeer (review)
Selling art to the Nazis
Sound of Metal (review)
Riz Ahmed plays a deaf drummer
Vanguard (review)
Jackie Chan fights back
More Legends on Grace
1 show next week & 4 next year
Two new spy series
Espionage in Iran, England, Israel & Switzerland
Mangrove (review)
The 1st of 5 films from Steve McQueen
The Climb (review)
An indie bromance
Mank (review)
Short for Herman J. Mankiewicz
Hillbilly Elegy (review)
Hard times for 3 generations
Dreamland (review)
Love and crime
Freaky (review)
Vince Vaughn KILLS as a teen chick
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (review)
Netflix’s big new holiday movie
Two Netflix ghost stories
Thrillers from very different worlds
Ammonite (review)
Lesbian love in Lyme
The Informer (review)
Joel Kinnaman goes undercover
Jungleland (review)
Brothers bare-knuckles boxing
His made his first feature at 23
Meet Iranian filmmaker Sina Khani
Civil War
The US is torn apart in a new conflict
3 quickie reviews before vacation
Palm Royale, Renegade Nell & Música
Wicked Little Letters
Olivia Colman & Jessie Buckley spar over nasty notes
Monkey Man
Dev Patel gets violent (& directed)
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Liam Neeson as a mellow killer
Moroccan-American director at JRFF
Yossera Bouchtia discusses 3 of her shorts
Asphalt City
The gritty job of EMS in NYC with Sean Penn
The Wages of Fear
A French remake of the nitroglycerine transport thriller
Constellation
Outer space drama goes quantum & loses impact
Problemista
Julio Torres uniquely quirky autobiographical comedy
3 Body Problem
Sci-fi from the Game of Thrones creators
His made his first feature at 23
Meet Iranian filmmaker Sina Khani
Civil War
The US is torn apart in a new conflict
3 quickie reviews before vacation
Palm Royale, Renegade Nell & Música
Wicked Little Letters
Olivia Colman & Jessie Buckley spar over nasty notes
Monkey Man
Dev Patel gets violent (& directed)
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Liam Neeson as a mellow killer
Moroccan-American director at JRFF
Yossera Bouchtia discusses 3 of her shorts
Asphalt City
The gritty job of EMS in NYC with Sean Penn
The Wages of Fear
A French remake of the nitroglycerine transport thriller
Constellation
Outer space drama goes quantum & loses impact
Problemista
Julio Torres uniquely quirky autobiographical comedy
3 Body Problem
Sci-fi from the Game of Thrones creators
Annual check-in from the Virginia Film Office
Andy Edmunds looks at 2023 & 2024 (including the new movie in town)
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
The latest sequel is even worse
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
Wacky, absurd fun about an English highwayman
Road House
Jake Gyllenhaal as the quiet but violent bouncer
The New Look
Dior & Chanel during and after WWII
Apples Never Fall
Annette Bening goes missing in this family drama
The American Society of Magical Negros
A racial satire that lacks bite or humor
He’s played so many foreigners and villains
Tom Belgrey on lots of films and TV roles
Knox Goes Away
Micheal Keaton directed & stars as a contract killer
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
The pop sensation gives a spectacular show
Death and Other Details
Another murder mystery on an ocean liner
One Life
Anthony Hopkins as a man who saved 669 children from Nazis