I Have a Love-Hate Relationship With 'Love Hard'
Love Hard is a Christmas romcom about two people who fall in love while pretending to date. It’s a romantic and fun watch. If you can forget the catfishing.

On graduation night, Jacobo's younger brother vanishes without a trace. Lost in the dark, he must confront his worst fears to find him.
Love Hard is a Christmas romcom about two people who fall in love while pretending to date. It’s a romantic and fun watch. If you can forget the catfishing.
This documentary moves chronologically through Black representation in horror films, revealing the genre's connections to Black history.
Him is visually stunning—all concrete cathedrals and bone-rattling impact shots that look like a nightmare highlight reel. Marlon Wayans is magnetic as this legendary quarterback who's basically selling salvation with a smile that never quite reaches his eyes. But the story keeps running in circles: more tests, more cryptic pep talks, more ritualistic drills. The sports-as-religion metaphor beats you over the head when subtlety would've been more effective. The middle drags, and that finale chooses spectacle over substance. It's undeniably stylish, but left me cold. Also worth noting: despite the Monkeypaw connection, this isn't actually a Jordan Peele film—he didn't write or direct.
Slip on your favorite dungarees and spend the day on the east coast of New Zealand before the 90s.
A best friend that will stick with you to the end, on a group trip from hell, is someone to die for.