In director Leandro Neri’s “Carnaval,” four young women in Brazil get the free trip of a lifetime, and a few life lessons along the way. After a particularly brutal break-up with her Instagram famous boyfriend, Nina (Giovana Cordeiro), herself a budding influencer, gets the break and swag she’s been posting for: an all-inclusive trip to…

There is a point in Michael Chaves’ frustrating and only sparsely scary “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It” when you realize something: if you abandon your desire to watch a terrifying haunted house movie in the vein of James Wan’s “The Conjuring” and settle for the investigative thriller that you have in front…

Nic Cage is not an actor every director can handle. He’ll steal the thing from you like a basketball and shoot a three-pointer from half court while you’re still wondering what accent he’s doing. Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor knew EXACTLY what to do with him and they gave him a volatile turn worthy of his…

On May 28th, Disney+ released a new series of short films under the “Launchpad” banner. These shorts give underrepresented filmmakers a chance to share their voice and culture with young viewers who might not be aware of the Muslim holiday of Eid, the role of the Chupacabra in Latin American folklore, or how having a…

It’s fitting that this year’s Memorial Day observance falls on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. As mentioned in the PBS documentary “Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten,” over 400,000 Black men served in World War I, several of whom returned to, or settled in, Tulsa after the war. All of them returned to…

Every year on Memorial Day, the annual mourning of those who died while serving in the US Military colors the day. Parades stream down tiny main streets and wide avenues across the country; the United States flag lowers to half-staff; volunteers will add miniature flags to gravesites; a national moment of remembrance takes place. The…