Picture This

With her sister’s wedding on the horizon and her family playing matchmaker, a struggling photographer receives a prediction: true love and success are on the other side of her next five dates. Then her ex reappears and throws everything into chaos. From Variety‘s Courtney Howard: “Sweet, silly and sincere, director Prarthana Mohan’s spin has a

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Vermiglio

Set in the Italian alps during the last days of WWII, Italy’s selection for the Academy Awards tells the story of a war deserter who looks for refuge in a local family and falls in love with their oldest daughter. Visually stunning with scenes rendered to look like they came from the Carravagio painter the

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I’m Still Here

An inspiring historical drama about the resilience of the human spirit and the life-affirming power of forgiveness. I’m Still Here delivers a hopeful message that even in the darkest times, good can triumph over evil.

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Sugarcane

Nominated for an Academy Award, the National Geographic documentary is an investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school in Canada, which provoked a reckoning at the nearby Sugarcane Reserve. From the New York Time‘s Alissa Wilkinson: “…it’s immersive and incredibly beautiful, shot like poetry and scored by Mali Obomsawin. The result

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Bob Dylan biopic Chalamet

A Complete Unknown

Just as Timothy Chalamet took home the SAG Award for his role as Bob Dylan, the Best Picture contender arrives on premium streaming platforms like Apple and Fandango at Home (at $24.99!).  The quasi-authorized biopic zeroes in on Dylan’s early rise to fame and the people and events that shaped him. Watch it with someone

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Memes & Nightmares

With a satirical nod to true crime docs, Memes & Nightmares follows two of the NBA’s biggest social media personalities as they set out to investigate why one of the most popular memes, the J.R. Smith Squinting Meme, disappeared completely from the internet. It’s a crash course in digital fandom and social media management, and

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Mufasa: The Lion King

Rare is the film that will reward both the kids and grandparents for making a night of it at the movies, but Mufasa delivers the kind of awe and majesty that will make the younger generations understand why the older ones are so nostalgic about movie theaters. Told with stunning, photorealistic animation, Mufasa takes us

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The Gorge

For viewers who like their romance wrapped in twisty action with an edge of horror, The Gorge stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller as two operatives guarding opposite sides of a giant “classified” gorge with a mysterious threat lurking within it.  Review are mixed, but the original premise, the suspense, and the genre mashup could

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TIMESTALKER romantic comedy historical fiction

Timestalker

A very British version of a Valentine’s day comedy about a woman who gets thrown back in time to experience romantic mishaps across history — all in an attempt to break her cycle of falling for the wrong guy. Its bloody and subversive,  skewering the typical romantic cliches.

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Scott Foley romance in Italy

La Dolce Villa

The midlife women have the new Bridget Jones movie, but the men get their own second act rom-com for Valentine’s Day with this gum-achingly-sweet Netflix drop. Scott Foley leads as a dad who heads to Italy to stop his grown daughter from embarking on the (real-life inspired) $1 villa deal — only to discover some

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