Palm Royale What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Apple TV Plus Kristen Wiig, Carol Burnett, Laura Dern, Allison Janney, Ricky Martin—need I say more? Palm Royale is a comedy and casting feast! Wiig stars as Maxine, ex-pageant queen and society-obsessed newcomer to Palm Beach, Florida. She knows she wants to get featured […]
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BLAST FROM THE PAST: Freaky Friday
Freaky Friday What’s it rated? PG When? 2003 Where’s it showing? The Palm Theatre of San Luis Obispo on May 11 (1:30, 4:15, 7, and 9:30 p.m.), May 12 (1:30, 4:15, and 7 p.m.), and May 13 (7:30 p.m.) Freaky Friday features teenaged Lindsey Lohan in her heyday and Jamie Lee Curtis as a put-upon […]
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Bingeable: Baby Reindeer
Baby Reindeer What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Netflix Wowza, this one’s a ride, even more so because it’s based on Richard Gadd’s true-life stalker experience. Martha (Jessica Gunning) seemingly wandered into his bar one night, and her eager laugh and undying attention feeds something in Donny he desperately needs. He’s a […]
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Camera demonstrates the importance of mentors
Camera What’s it rated? Not rated What’s it worth, Glen? Full price What’s it worth, Anna? Full price Where’s it showing? The Fremont Theater in SLO on Monday, April 29, at 3:30 p.m. Jay Silverman (Girl on the Edge, Off the Menu, Saving Paradise) directs this poignant story—by Irish screenwriter Jamie Murphy—about nonverbal 9-year-old Oscar […]
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Civil War feels frightenedly plausible
Civil War What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Glen? Full price What’s it worth, Anna? Full price Where’s it showing? Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria, Movies Lompoc, Fair Oaks Writer-director Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation, Men) helms this war movie set in a dystopian near-future America where Texas, California, and other states—in the face […]
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Monkey Man is an action-packed revenge and justice tale
Monkey Man What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Glen? Full price What’s it worth, Anna? Full price Where’s it showing? Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria, Regal Arroyo Grande Dev Patel stars in and directs this screenplay he co-wrote with Paul Angunawela and John Collee about a young man, Kid (Patel), who earns a meager […]
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Bingeable: Apples Never Fall
Apples Never Fall What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Peacock Liane Moriarty is an author known for her twisty tales, and Apples Never Fall isn’t her first work to hit the big screen. She also wrote Big Little Lies, which packed a punch with its star-studded cast. Apples Never Fall also has […]
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Constellation makes quantum mechanics entertaining
Constellation What’s it rated? TV-MA What’s it worth, Glen? Full price What’s it worth, Anna? Full price Where’s it showing? Apple TV Plus Created by Peter Harness (Wallander, Doctor Who) based on a concept by Sean Jablonski (Nip/Tuck), this sci-fi psychological thriller/mystery follows astronaut Jo Ericsson (Noomi Rapace) who after a deadly accident on the […]
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Blast from the Past: Singin’ in the Rain
Singin’ in the Rain What’s it rated? G When? 1952 Where’s it showing? The Palm Theatre of San Luis Obispo on April 6 (1:30, 4:15, 7, and 9:30 p.m.), April 7 (1:30, 4:15, and 7 p.m.), and April 8 (7 p.m.) Ah, Hollywood! This classic rom-com musical stars Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, and Debbie Reynolds […]
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Love Lies Bleeding depicts a gritty and fantastical love affair
Love Lies Bleeding What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Glen? Full price What’s it worth, Anna? Full price Where’s it showing? Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria, Regal Arroyo Grande Rose Glass (Saint Maud) directs a screenplay she wrote with Weronika Tofilska about Lou (Kristen Stewart), a gym manager who falls for Jackie (Katy O’Brian), […]
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Bingeable: The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping
The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Netflix Masked as schools with a focus on “healing troubled teens,” Ivy Ridge and its sister schools run by the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (known as WWASP) aren’t out to help teenagers become better people, they’re […]
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Damsel proves a distressed lady can save herself
Damsel What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth, Glen? Matinee What’s it worth, Anna? Matinee Where’s it showing? Netflix Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later) directs this dark fantasy about dutiful Elodie (Millie Bobby Brown), a royal from an impoverished kingdom, whose father, Lord Bayford (Ray Winston)—in exchange for wealth—arranges to marry her to Prince […]
