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Searching is a Hitchcockesque web thriller told via modern technology devices. After David Kim (John Cho)’s 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened to help find the girl.

The Wife is a timely film about a woman coming into her own power. After 40 years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman (Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce) seem the perfect complement as a couple.

Serial collaborators and creative soul mates Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg are teaming up once again. After mining true stories for their previous films (Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon and Patriots Day) they turn to the pure action thriller genre with Mile 22 which sees a team of deep cover operatives tasked with delivering a high value target to the prescribed location in a hostile country.

Planning to watch Crazy Rich Asians? First, get your passport ready. This best-seller adaptation has generated excitement around the world, marking a historic moment for Asian representation in Hollywood.

Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman hits US theaters on the strength of the Grand Prix it won in Cannes last May. Produced by Jordan Peele (Get Out), it tells the improbable but true story of undercover cop Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), the first black policeman recruited by the Colorado Springs PD in the early seventies, who infiltrates the local branch of the KKK with the help of his white partner (Adam Driver).

Based on the Emily Danforth novel of the same title, The Miseducation of Cameron Post details the coming of age of the teenage protagonist who is sent to be “reformed” at a Christian gay conversion camp by a conservative aunt. The adaptation, which won the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Festival, is directed by Desiree Akhavan and stars Chloë Grace Moretz in the titular role.

Female driven comedies seem to fast be becoming the new Hollywood norm. Writer/ director Susanna Fogel's The Spy Who Dumped Me gladly joins that club as a female buddy comedy that spoofs the usually testosterone fueled secret-agent genre.

When comedian-singer-songwriter-rapper-performer-poet and general YouTube age multi-hyphenate Bo Burnham premiered the first film he wrote and directed, 8th Grade, it was met with wide acclaim from Sundance audiences and critics. That praise was earned by the fresh originality of the film as well as by the remarkable performance of its young star.

Blindspotting was one of the talked about films to bow at this year’s Sundance – and it’s being talked about even more now that it’s opened wide. Directed by Carlos López Estrada and produced, written and played by Daveed Diggs (Hamilton) and Rafael Casal, the film is part of the growing “Oakland New Wave” which includes, just this year, Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You (another Sundance sensation) and a little movie called Black Panther, via East Bay favorite son Ryan Coogler (who not surprisingly worked his hometown into the plot).

Kelly Macdonald plays a New Jersey mother and housewife to a provincial man (played by David Denman) who expects dinner on the table every night. Caught in her routine life without much hope of escape she discovers a passion for jigsaw puzzles, which leads her to open up her mind and heart to a new exciting world as she enters a puzzle tournament in Atlantic City.