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

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

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

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.

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

After her mom marries a filthy rich Brit, an 18-year-old American moves to London to join her and meets her troublemaker stepbrother — and a hate-love-hate relationship blossoms, just as her estranged father is released from prison and tracks them down. A remake of the hit 2023 Spanish film, My Fault, which is based on

In the wake of his Oscar-winning Summer of Soul, Questlove turns his focus to shed fresh light on the largely overlooked  Sly and the Family Stone, challenging the usual music doc tropes to create something unexpectedly riveting and revealing. From San Francisco Chronicle‘s Chris Vognar:  “Sly Lives! may not provide definitive answers, but the fact

Nominated for the Best Picture Oscar and Best Adapted Screenplay, Nickel Boys tells the true story of two teens in the Jim Crow-era south who managed to form a bond in a notorious Florida reform school where boys were beaten and sexually abused. Adapted from Colson Whithead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the film is “a mesmerizing,

With cancer on the rise among younger generations, this ultimately uplifting documentary strikes a chord as it captures the journey of 20-year-old Isabella Strahan, who was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor during her freshman year of college. It reveals what she learned about early detection and treatment, and how she’s coped with the emotional

The first Indian film to win the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, All We Imagine as Light follows the lives of two nurses in modern day Mumbai who’ve become unlikely roommates – one separated from her husband after an arranged marriage, the other younger and dating a Muslim man as Islamaphobia rises around