Tokyo Cowboy What’s it rated? PG What’s it worth, Anna? Full price What’s it worth, Glen? Full price Where’s it showing? Opens Oct. 25 at the Palm Theatre of San Luis Obispo Marc Marriott directs this independent film scripted by Dave Boyle and Ayako Fujitani about Japanese corporate turnaround artist Hideki Sakai (Arata Iura), an […]
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NEW FLICKS: Megalopolis
Megalopolis What’s it rated? R When? 2024 Where’s it showing? The Bay Theatre of Morro Bay Auteur Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making fable-like passion project has finally arrived with a resounding clunk, but does it deserve being panned? I mean, this is the director of The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now, and The Conversation we’re talking about. […]
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Salem’s Lot is a classic vampire tale that feels cliché
Salem’s Lot What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Anna? Stream it What’s it worth, Glen? Stream it Where’s it showing? Max Writer-director Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home) offers this new adaptation of Stephen King’s 1975 novel about author Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman), who returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot to research a […]
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NEW FLICKS: Hold Your Breath
Hold Your Breath What’s it rated? R When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Hulu Karrie Crouse and William Joines co-direct this screenplay by Crouse about Margaret Bellum (Sarah Paulson), a mother living on a devastated Oklahoma farm at the height of the Dust Bowl. Her husband’s away, leaving Margaret alone to care from their daughters, Rose […]
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Joker: Folie à Deux examines our dark side
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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NEW FLICKS: Wolfs
Wolfs What’s it rated? R When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Apple TV Plus Writer-director Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) helms this mismatched-buddy comedy about two professional fixers—George Clooney and Brad Pitt—who are individually hired to clean up a mess involving Manhattan District Attorney Margaret (Amy Ryan), who ends up with a dead one-night stand […]
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BINGEABLE: Kaos
Kaos What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Netflix Created by Charlie Covell (The End of the F***ing World), this darkly funny series finds an increasingly paranoid Zeus (a delightfully droll Jeff Goldblum) fearing the end of his reign when he notices a wrinkle on his forehead and interprets it as a harbinger […]
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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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NEW FLICKS: Rebel Ridge
Rebel Ridge What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Netflix Writer-director Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin, Green Room) helms this good old-fashioned vigilante film about ex-Marine Terry Richmond (Aaron Pierre) who runs into trouble when he heads to the small town of Shelby Springs to bail out his cousin, Mike (C.J. LeBlanc), who’s arraigned […]
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BLAST FROM THE PAST: Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice What’s it rated? PG When? 1988 Where’s it showing? Max Tim Burton directs this dark supernatural fantasy about newly dead married couple Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara Maitland (Geena Davis) who are navigating their new ghostly existence in their old home. When the house is sold to an obnoxious new family who begins to […]
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NEW FLICKS: The Bikeriders
The Bikeriders What’s it rated? R When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Peacock Writer-director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Special, Loving) helms this film based on Danny Lyon’s 1968 book in which the college-educated photographer essentially embedded himself in the Midwestern motorcycle gang the Chicago Outlaws. Lyon’s photo-rich book was inspired by Hunter S. Thompson’s […]
