Shōgun What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Hulu Created by Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks and based on James Clavell’s sweeping 1975 historical fiction novel, Shōgun tells the story of shipwrecked English sailor John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), the powerful Japanese warlord Yoshii Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) who takes him in, interpreter Toda Mariko […]
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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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New Flicks: Chosen Family
Chosen Family What’s it rated? Not yet rated When? 2024 Where’s it showing? The Fremont Theater in SLO on Saturday, April 27, at 5 p.m. Writer-director Heather Graham (Half Magic) helms the very funny new dramedy Chosen Family, about Ann (Graham), a yoga instructor with bad luck in love and with an impossibly difficult family […]
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Blast from the Past: Dawn of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead What’s it rated? Unrated When? 1978 Where’s it showing? The Fremont Theater on Saturday, April 27, at 8:30 p.m. Written and directed by George A. Romero, Dawn of the Dead is a follow-up to his groundbreaking 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead, considered the first modern-day zombie movie. Dawn takes […]
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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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BINGEABLE: 3 Body Problem
3 Body Problem What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Netflix Based on Chinese sci-fi author Liu Cixin’s novel The Three-Body Problem (from his Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy), Netflix’s nonlinear, character-rich series is about the Santi, an alien race from a dying planet that contacts Earth. The story surrounds the humans who […]
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BINGEABLE: Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Lawmen: Bass Reeves What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Paramount Plus Real-life Bass Reeves (1938-1910) was born into slavery and owned by Arkansas state legislator William Steele Reeves, and when the Civil War started, Reeves’ son George R. Reeves acquired ownership of Bass, joined the Confederate Army, and took Bass with him. […]
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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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New Flicks: You People
You People What’s it rated? R When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Netflix Kenya Barris (Black-ish, #BlackAF) directs this script co-written with Jonah Hill about a new couple, Ezra Cohen (Hill), who’s white and Jewish, and Amira Mohammed (Lauren London), who’s Black and Muslim. Their problem is their respective families—his are cringy tone-deaf liberals falling all […]
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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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New Flicks: Road House
Road House What’s it rated? R When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Amazon Prime Doug Limon (The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow) directs this “not quite a remake” about a bouncer hired to clean up a fight-prone bar who ends up saving an entire community. It’s basically a Western, as this version self-reflexively acknowledges through future […]
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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), […]
