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EXTRAPOLATIONS (2023) Where’s it playing? Apple TV Plus What’s it rated? TV-MA What’s it worth? Full price (Anna Starkey) What’s it worth? Full price (Glen Starkey) Creator Scott Z. Burns (Contagion, Side Effects) helms this new anthology drama series that peers into our future to explore what life on our climate-changed planet will be like. […]

NEW FLICKS: LUTHER: THE FALLEN SUN Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? R Jamie Payne directs this film sequel to the award-winning television saga about brilliant but disgraced police detective John Luther (Idris Elba), created by novelist and scriptwriter Neil Cross. I’ve never seen the series, so if you’re wondering if you can enjoy […]

NEW FLICKS: PAMELA: A LOVE STORY (2023) Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA Ryan White (The Keepers) directs this intimate and revealing portrait of blonde bombshell Pamela Anderson, who became a superstar playing C.J. Parker on the hit TV series Baywatch in the ’90s, fumbled an attempt to segue into film with Barb […]

NEW FLICKS: SHARPER Where’s it playing? Apple TV Plus What’s it rated? R Benjamin Caron (The Crown) directs this nonlinear grifter story about various confidence games being played out in New York City by several “sharpers,” or swindlers. Who’s conning who is part of the fun as these interlayered stories unfold, with each new segment […]

BINGEABLE: THE LAST OF US (2023-present) Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? TV-MA We’re now halfway through the first season of this video game-based zombie TV series, and if you haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet, what are you waiting for? This very compelling drama has continued to improve exponentially after the first […]

NEW FLICKS: BONES AND ALL Where’s it playing? Rent on Amazon Prime, Redbox, Vudu, and Apple TV What’s it rated? R Luca Guadagino (Call Me by Your Name, A Bigger Splash) directs David Kajganich’s screenplay based on Camille DeAngelis’s 2015 novel about Maren (Taylor Russell), a young woman who’s beginning to confront her penchant for […]

NEW FLICKS: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Where’s it playing? The Palm Theatre in SLO, and on Netflix What’s it rated? R Edward Berger (Jack, Deurshland 83) directs this film based on Erich Maria Remarque’s celebrated 1928 novel about a young German soldier in World War I, who experiences terror and distress while stationed […]

BINGEABLE: THE RECRUIT (2022) Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA Think of protagonist Owen Hendrick (Noah Centineo) as a cheekier and less capable version of Jack Ryan. Owens is not former military or a fancy “analyst” for the CIA. He’s a fresh-out-of-law-school hire who’s immediately taken advantage of by the more experienced people […]

BINGEABLE: THREE PINES (2022-present) Where’s it playing? Amazon Prime What’s it rated? TV-14 Created by Emilia di Girolamo based on the Inspector Gamache mystery novel series by Louise Penny, this Canadian TV show follows Chief Inspector Armand Gamache (Alfred Molina) and his colleagues Sgt. Jean-Guy Beauvoir (Rossif Sutherland), Sgt. Isabelle Lacoste (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers), and rookie […]

NEW FLICKS: BABYLON Where’s it playing? Movies Lompoc, Regal Edwards Arroyo Grande, Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria What’s it rated? R “Excessive” is probably the best word to describe Babylon, writer-director Damien Chazelle’s (Whiplash, La La Land) new film—an often gross and graphic exploration of Hollywood’s pre-code nascent days, its transition from silent films to […]

BINGEABLE: THE WHITE LOTUS (SEASON 2) (2022) Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? TV-MA If you’re worried that your relationship has problems, you and your significant other should tune into The White Lotus and behold the psycho-social dysfunctions of the various characters in this delicious black comedy about upscale resort vacationers and the […]