Joker: Folie À Deux What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Anna? Full price What’s it worth, Glen? Full price Where’s it showing? Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria, Movies Lompoc, Regal Edwards Arroyo Grande Co-writer and director Todd Phillips (Old School, The Hangover, Joker) helms this sequel about Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), a tormented comedian […]
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BINGEABLE: Nobody Wants This
Nobody Wants This What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Netflix Joanne (Kristen Bell) is an open book, at least on her podcast that she hosts with her sister, Morgan (Justine Lupe). The two are looking for their big break, but what that means to each of them feels very different. Both are […]
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BINGEABLE: The Perfect Couple
The Perfect Couple What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Netflix Uber rich power couple Greer (Nicole Kidman) and Tag (Leiv Schreiber) seem to have it all—a sprawling estate on Nantucket, healthy grown children, booming careers, and more money than God. Perfection cracks quickly, though, when their son Benji’s (Billy Howle) impending wedding […]
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The Substance is a gory, satirical exploration of beauty standards and youth obsession
The Substance What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Anna? Full price What’s it worth, Glen? Full price Where’s it showing? Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria Writer-director Coralie Fargeat (Revenge) helms this dark comedy/body horror film about fading celebrity Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore), who takes a black-market cell-replicating drug that promises to create a separate, […]
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Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger celebrates the cinematic geniuses behind The Red Shoes and other iconic British films
Made In England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger What’s it rated? Unrated What’s it worth, Anna? Full price What’s it worth, Glen? Full price Where’s it showing? The Palm Theatre of San Luis Obispo David Hinton (The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind) directs this documentary on the films of Emeric Pressburger […]
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BLAST FROM THE PAST: The Red Shoes
The Red Shoes What’s it rated? Not rated When? Saturday through Sunday, Sept. 21-22, at 4 p.m.; Monday, Sept. 22, at 7 p.m. Where’s it showing? The Palm Theatre of San Luis Obispo Hans Christian Anderson knew how to spin a cautionary yarn, and this movie of the same name is no different. Is art […]
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The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat is bighearted melodrama streaming on Hulu
The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth, Anna? Stream it What’s it worth, Glen? Stream it Where’s it showing? Hulu Tina Mabry (Mississippi Damned) directs this story based on Edward Kelsey Moore’s 2013 bestselling novel about a trio of friends—Odette (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Kyanna Simone as young Odette), Barbara Jean […]
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BLAST FROM THE PAST: Little Women
Little Women What’s it rated? PG When? Monday, Sept. 9, at 5:30 p.m. Where’s it showing? The Bay Theatre Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career, Mrs. Soffel) directs this 1994 film adaptation of writer Louisa May Alcott’s two volume coming of age novel (released in 1868 and 1869) about the March sisters—Meg (Trini Alvarado), Jo (Winona […]
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Blink Twice is an inky-dark psychological horror film with a lot to say about gender roles
Blink Twice What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Anna? Full price What’s it worth, Glen? Full price Where’s it showing? Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria, Regal Edwards Arroyo Grande Zoë Kravitz directs this black comedy she co-wrote with E.T. Feigenbaum about tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) who at his fundraising gala meets cocktail […]
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BINGEABLE: Lady in the Lake
Lady in the Lake What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Apple TV Plus In this noir thriller, Natalie Portman stars as Jewish housewife Maddie Schwartz, whose world is upended when an 11-year-old white girl goes missing from her community and is found dead. While the tragedy is indeed heartbreaking, Maddie’s reaction has […]
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Alien: Romulus returns to the original’s formula and nails it
Alien: Romulus What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Anna? Matinee What’s it worth, Glen? Matinee Where’s it showing? Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria, Movies Lompoc, Regal Edwards Arroyo Grande Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe, The Girl in the Spider’s Web) directs this new installment in the Alien sci-fi horror franchise. In this go-around, […]
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The Instigators is an amusing mismatched buddy flick
The Instigators What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Anna? Matinee What’s it worth, Glen? Matinee Where’s it showing? Apple TV Plus Doug Liman (Swingers, The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow) directs this crime comedy about two hapless robbers—Rory (Matt Damon) and Cobby (Casey Affleck, who co-wrote the script with Chuck MacLean)—who find themselves on […]
