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It's difficult to quantify the significance of Hurricane Katrina: the combination of a historic natural disaster and a cold, systemic indifference to its impoverished African American victims makes it perhaps the most significant event in 21st-century African American history. It's no surprise, then, that more than one major documentary series has been made to commemorate the 20 years since wind, water, and unconscionable racism devastated New Orleans, nor that the leading cinematic auteurs of two consecutive generations, Spike Lee and Ryan Coogler, have executive produced theirs. But watching Katrina: Come Hell and High Water, one wishes Lee and Coogler had spoken on the phone to make sure they weren't duplicating themselves too much. The new three-part episode—Lee's arriving on Netflix during the week of the anniversary—has a slightly muted impact due to the preexistence of Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time, Coogler's series that premiered on Disney+ and Nation...

The 2025 Netflix crime thriller documentary, Unknown Number: High School Catfish, is absolutely insane. This true story introduces us to a mother, Kendra Licari, who, for very troubling reasons, began sending disgusting text messages, with explicit descriptions, to her fifteen-year-old daughter, Lauryn, and her ex-boyfriend, Owen McKenny. After watching the documentary, one could only imagine the psychological trauma and emotional torture these kids must have endured.  Through these messages, Kendra began criticizing her own daughter for her looks and attacking her insecurities, causing Lauryn to lose self-confidence and stop participating in extracurricular activities. She even broke up with Owen because that's what the texter wanted. Meanwhile, Owen and his family, especially his mother, Jill McKenny, couldn't understand why this anonymous author was harassing and verbally attacking this young couple. Director: Skye Borgman Stars: Lauryn Licari, Sophie Weber, Macy Johnston Th...

The 2025 Chilean Netflix documentary Millonario tells the story of perhaps the country's unluckiest man, or the failed attempts of an ambitious con man, depending on how you perceive the complex situation. The protagonist is Javier Zapata, a Chilean who won the country's largest lottery, 2.4 billion pesos, but was never able to collect the prize, as authorities claimed his ticket was counterfeit. Although its presentation is a bit chaotic and sometimes strays from the main topic, Millonario is still an intriguing film and can be highly entertaining for fans of non-fiction cinema.  Javier Zapata, a farmer living in a town near Los Angeles in central Chile, led a very normal life until one fateful day in March 2018. Although Javier was never extroverted and therefore not very popular in his neighborhood, he had a good number of close friends and acquaintances who regularly stayed with him or simply said hello when they met. Most neighbors remember seeing Javier participating in f...

AppleTV+ and Megan Thee Stallion are bringing to global television a show where major K-pop artists collaborate with legendary global artists to "Kpopify" their Western music in a fierce competition. Except this isn't really a competition. It's an attempt to introduce K-pop to a global audience that has always been skeptical of it and considers it outsider music. For starters, as a K-pop fan already, I must admit that I'm not the target audience for this show.  It's specifically for those who want to watch legends like Patti LaBelle, the Spice Girls, TLC, Boy George, Boyz II Men, and more. Here's the thing: In some episodes, there's actual competition, as we see two global artists compete against each other, while the K-pop group is split in two. So, for example, we have Megan Thee Stallion with one half of Billie and Patti LaBelle with the other half. However, when it's Boyz II Men or the Spice Girls, the global artists aren't split in two; Th...

The ending of Two Graves revolved around Isabel preventing Rafael Salazar from killing his granddaughter, Veronica, and her lover, Jamila Abdallah. What drove Salazar to commit such a murder? Well, two years before the events of this Netflix miniseries, Veronica and Salazar's daughter, Marta, had gone out partying. They were supposed to return home at 3 a.m., but neither of them returned. An exhaustive search was launched, and authorities found Marta's body in the waters off Frigiliana, Spain. But there was no trace of Veronica. Eventually, Miguel Zaera, the judicial police, Veronica's father, Antonio, and even her sister, Lupe, gave up. Of the two suspects, Jonas Herrera was released due to lack of evidence, and Johannes Witzke, known for his sexual offenses but unrelated to the case, took his own life. That said, just when the case seemed to be going cold, Isabel took a major step forward when she discovered that Beltrán, a mutual friend of the girls, had taken them to a ...

Nora (Taylor Cole) was a rising star at the prominent New York advertising agency H Company before taking a risk and jumping ship with former H Company VP Alexandra (Elisa Donovan) to start their own firm, Rankin Advertising Company. Nora is happy at Rankin. She has a better work-life balance, less stress, and an overall better work environment, free from H Company's cutthroat competition.  The only problem is, Nora now feels the pressure to help this startup thrive in order to support and reassure all the employees who bravely left H Company to start anew alongside her. And after losing her last potential account to H Company, Nora is determined to do everything she can to score a big win that will turn the tide in Rankin's favor. But an after-work dinner with her best friend, Shannon (Jacklyn Collier), might be enough to put Nora on the path to success when she tries a brand of ice cream so good even a sugar hater can enjoy it, giving her an idea of ​​who her next customer mi...

 I'll try not to emotionally wound my fellow millennials by reminding everyone that it's been over 40 years since the original 1984 film, The Toxic Avenger, hit the screens. Lloyd Kaufman's strange and unabashed anti-superhero film hit right in the heart of the 1980s, playing with the subversion of heroes and slasher conventions a little before Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or Howard the Duck. Initially compared more to its slasher predecessors, the film became a hit with midnight moviegoers, spawning a slew of sequels and, now, a shiny new remake.  Borrowing more from later subversive superhero films and fewer from earlier horror favorites, this new Toxic Avenger film retains all the midnight movie charm, albeit with less impact. Peter Dinklage stars in this film as Winston Gooze, a down-on-his-luck janitor struggling to raise his stepson, keep his job, and manage a potentially fatal diagnosis. After being fired by his company's eccentric CEO (Kevin Bacon), Goo...