“Hillbilly Bible” is a faith-based comedy drama that will now be filmed in honor of late actor John Amos.

The 2023 lawsuit, filed by Friends for our Riverfront and others, challenging the new Memphis Art Museum Downtown has hit another barrier.

Also opening this week in wide release are two horror-comedies: “They Will Kill You” with Zazie Beetz (“Atlanta”) and Myha’la (“Industry”), and “Forbidden Fruits.”

With the sport Heck has loved since she was 4 on the back burner, her art, military service and wedding plans are what keep the former Memphian busy these days.

With the Oscars finally in the rearview, the first potential well-liked live-action hit of the 2026 movie year arrives this weekend, says Chris Herrington.

Roger Allan Cleaves’ paintings transport you to “Forget Me Nots Land,” a fictional world inspired by Black household knickknacks and art history influences. His exhibition is on display at the Dixon Gallery & Gardens through April 12.

Earnestine Jenkins, an art-history professor at the University of Memphis for nearly 25 years, curated the exhibition “Black Artists in America: From the Bicentennial to September 11.”

Carl E. Moore, known for his work across the city, is showing kids that art can be a career. 

In a Cooper-Young bar, a musician and painter led a room full of people through speed portraits. 

Three high school students are being nationally recognized for “The Pursuit,” their documentary featuring American Dreamers and DACA recipients.

The Iranian drama “It Was Just an Accident” is the best 2025 film to skip Memphis screens entirely, Chris Herrington said.

Works by more than 80 Memphis and Shelby County students will be on view through April 30 at the Pink Palace.

This March art roundup includes one show that honors Neena Wang, who died last fall at the age of 30.

Where Guillermo del Toro’s current Oscar nominee “Frankenstein” is a quasi-straight adaptation of Mary Shelley’s original novel, writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s new movie is a highly stylized adaptation transported to the gangster milieu of 1930s Chicago. 

“All the teachers were fine artists and loved to teach,” said Murray Riss, who established the photography department at Memphis College of Art.

Aint Film Festival, the passion project of Memphis native and filmmaker Zaire Love, runs Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 26-28.

Ghostface is back ... and so is Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar winner. 

For one night a month, Bar Limina will be serving craft cocktails at the nearby Sheet Cake Gallery.

Tyler Perry passes through Memphis. And remembering when Robert Duvall and Rufus Thomas shared a scene. 

What to do when you reserved no plans for Valentine’s Day. Plus, Memphis musicians and music lovers curate a playlist to set the mood. 

Here’s a selection of art exhibitions happening in the greater Memphis area this month.

Local screens fill up with everything from Oscar heavyweight “Sentimental Value” to the new “Wuthering Heights,” sci‑fi comedies, fresh horror, and special showings of “Zappa,” “Grease” and a 40th‑anniversary “Pretty in Pink.”

The festival is expected to span much of the South Main district, with films being screened at Malco’s Powerhouse Cinema and the Orpheum’s Halloran Centre, while Central Station and other venues in the area will host parties and other festival events.

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The festival will be held in Downtown’s South Main Arts District, with the selected films being shown in Malco’s Powerhouse Cinema as well as the Orpheum’s Halloran Centre.

Stranded on a South Pacific island with Rachel McAdams? Be careful what you wish for in Sam Raimi’s “Send Help.”