Wilderness What’s it rated? Not rated When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Amazon Prime This six-part series from Amazon follows British newlyweds Liv (Jenna Coleman) and Will (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) as they start their new lives in New York. Things seem perfect: Will is busy at work, Liv is keeping house and trying to be a supportive […]
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Reptile is a ’90s-style police procedural thriller
Reptile What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Glen? Full price What’s it worth, Anna? Full price Where’s it showing? Netflix Music video director Grant Singer makes his feature film directorial debut with this stylish police procedural he wrote with Benjamin Brewer and star Benicio Del Toro about New England Detective Tom Nichols (Del Toro), […]
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The Creator is a gorgeously filmed sci-fi story about what it means to be moral
The Creator What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth, Glen? Full price What’s it worth, Anna? Full price Where’s it showing? Regal Edwards Santa Maria RPX, Movies Lompoc, Regal Edwards Arroyo Grande Gareth Edwards (Monsters, Godzilla, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) directs this sci-fi adventure he co-wrote with Chris Weitz (Pinocchio, Rogue One: A […]
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Golda is an intense depiction of Golda Meir’s handling of the Yom Kippur War
Golda What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth, Glen? Full price What’s it worth, Anna? Full price Where’s it showing? The Palm Theatre of San Luis Obispo Guy Nattiv (Strangers, The Flood, Skin) directs Helen Mirren as Golda Meir, Israel’s fourth prime minister, who led the country from 1969 to 1974, including through the 1973 […]
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A Haunting in Venice is a stylish but old fashioned whodunit
A Haunting in Venice What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth, Glen? Matinee What’s it worth, Anna? Matinee Where’s it showing? Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria, Movies Lompoc, Regal Edwards Arroyo Grande Kenneth Branagh is back with his third go-around rebooting classic mysteries by novelist Agatha Christie. After Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and […]
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BINGEABLE: Down for Love
Down for Love What’s it rated? TV-14 When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Netflix This five-episode reality series by Netflix follows several young hopefuls looking for love. It’s similar to their program Love on the Spectrum, but instead of autism diagnoses, Netflix introduces us to six young men and women who all have been diagnosed with […]
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BINGEABLE: Live To 100: Screts Of The Blue Zones
Live To 100: Screts Of The Blue Zones What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Netflix Certain areas of the world are known as “Blue Zones,” regions where residents live longer than average. Netflix’s new series Live to 100 takes us around the world to explore what it is about these areas that […]
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Bottoms is a guffaw-worthy teen black comedy
Bottoms 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 Emma Seligman (Shiva Baby) directs and co-writes with star Rachel Sennott this raunchy teen black comedy about two besties and lesbians—PJ (Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri)—who are at the bottom […]
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The Equalizer 3 is a fitting finale to this rebooted trilogy
The Equalizer 3 What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Glen? Full price What’s it worth, Anna? Full price Where’s it showing? Movies Lompoc, Regal Edwards Arroyo Grande, Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria Antoine Fuqua (The Replacement Killers, Training Day, King Arthur, Shooter, Brooklyn’s Finest, Emancipation) returns to direct this third installment in the film […]
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BINGEABLE: Painkiller
Painkiller What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Netflix In 2021, Hulu brought us the mini-series Dopesick, which took us to the boardrooms, courtrooms, and living rooms of those inside the opioid crisis. 2023 brings us Painkiller, another look at the crisis, the cover-up, and the eventual rulings against Purdue and the Sackler […]
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I Am So Not Inviting You to My Bat Mitzvah is a sweet, funny coming-of-age story
I Am So Not Inviting You to My Bat Mitzvah What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth, Glen? Full price What’s it worth, Anna? Full price Where’s it showing? Netflix Sammi Cohen directs this coming-of-age comedy about besties Stacy Friedman (Sunny Sandler) and Lydia Rodriguez Katz (Samantha Lorraine), who have a falling out over a […]
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BINGEABLE: Depp V. Heard
Depp V. Heard What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Netflix From April to June 2022, the defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard was in its heyday. With a bit of shame, I admit I followed along, watching hour upon hour of trial footage as the two and their respective witnesses […]