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Sitting in Bars with Cake
An introverted baker and her bubbly best friend are new to Los Angeles and bring homemade cakes to bars to start conversation. This touching character-driven film celebrating best friendship stars Yara Shahidi (Blackish) and Odessa A’zion (Fam) alongside Bette Midler, in a nod to one of the film’s inspirations, Beaches.
more RELEASES this week:
February 14, 2025
Streaming live on Peacock from Radio City on the eve of SNL’s 50th Anniversary Special, Jimmy Fallon hosts 20 musical acts who’ve made a splash on the show over the years, from David Byrne, the B-52s, Devo, Eddie Vedder, and the Backstreet Boys to Miley Cyrus, Arcade Fire, Jack White, Bad Bunny, Lad …
February 14, 2025
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.
February 14, 2025
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 su …
February 13, 2025
Nearly a quarter century after the original, Renee Zellweger reprises her role as the (still) hapless Brit who is once again single — widowed after her husband, Darcy (Colin Firth), died on a humanitarian mission — leaving her to take care of their two small kids with the help of her same trusted …
February 13, 2025
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 …
February 13, 2025
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 Fau …
February 13, 2025
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 …
February 11, 2025
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 …
February 10, 2025
Season 1
A riveting and revealing three-episode documentary that shares multiple sides of the story behind the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu and America’s involvement in the Somali Civil War, which inspired the award-winning 2002 Ridley Scott film Black Hawk Down.
February 6, 2025
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 a …
February 6, 2025
The legendary producer Norman Lear (RIP) was behind this sitcom about an aging car wash owner (George Wallace) who is excited to welcome home his estranged son after 17 years until he discovers “he” is now a transwoman (Laverne Cox). All eight episodes stream today. From Variety’s Aramide Tinubu: “T …
February 6, 2025
Season 1
Inspired by the story of an Australian Instagram influencer (played by Kaitlyn Dever), who in the midst of a rivalry with a blogger fighting cancer (Alycia Debnam-Carey), fakes a brain tumor and inks book and app deals based on how she “beat” cancer. From The Guardian’s Lucy Mangan: “Apple Cider Vin …