Like the archaeological project at the center of its story, many things seem to lie just beneath the surface in Netflix’s new historical film The Dig. 

What would you do to rescue your grandchild from a miserable life with a degenerate criminal family? 

In Let Him Go, George and Margaret Blackledge (Kevin Costner and Diane Lane) lose their son in a tragic accident, then lose their grandson Jimmy when daughter-in-law Lorna moves away without notice with her new husband and the young boy. 

Former lawman George seems content to let Jimmy go, but Margaret won’t. The Blackledges soon learn stepfather Donald Weboy is a bad man from a bad family. 

In the new movie We Can Be Heroes (rated PG), streaming on Netflix, aliens invade Earth and capture the Heroics, the planet’s team of superheroes. The Heroics’ children, who have their own special powers, must learn to work together because, as Missy (YaYa Gos­selin) urges her tween-age sidekicks, “If we want to rescue our parents and save the planet, we’re going to need to do it now.” 

If you’re looking for a film to watch in honor of Black History Month, you could hardly do better than Thomas Sowell, a new documentary on the life of one of America’s preeminent intellectuals and, arguably, our greatest living political theorist. 

Cicely Tyson, who played iconic characters and broke racial barriers during her seven-decade acting career, has died at 96. A family statement did not release any additional details.

How did she launch her career? Born in Harlem, New York, Tyson started out as a model and theater actress before becoming the first black woman to play a major recurring character in a drama in the 1963 television series East Side, West Side. Her breakout role as a sharecropper’s wife in the movie Sounder earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in 1972.

If you’re over the age of 21 and don’t happen to have a job tracking pop-culture trends, you may have missed the latest musical craze: sea shanties.

Zoe Hull’s first hunting trip with her dad ends when the high-school senior smashes the skull of the wounded deer she had just shot, putting it out of its misery. Zoe is no wilting violet, and Run Hide Fight lets viewers know early on the movie will be violent and at times disturbing.

The Daily Wire, the conservative news platform best known for hosting the podcasts of conservative favorites Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, and Andrew Klavan, is distributing and promoting the film, its first such endeavor. Daily Wire subscribers can watch it online.