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NEW FLICKS: GEORGE CARLIN’S AMERICAN DREAM (2022) Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? TV-MA Directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio, this George Carlin biography mixes interviews with Carlin’s family members and contemporary comics such as Stephen Colbert, Patton Oswalt, Bill Burr, Chris Rock, and Jerry Seinfeld, as well as archival material from […]

NEW FLICKS: WATERMAN (2021) Where’s it playing? PBS What’s it rated? Not Rated Isaac Halasima (The Last Descent) directs this documentary about Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, a five-time Olympic medalist and native Hawaiian who’s credited with introducing surfing to the world. The film uses archival materials and reenactments with Duane DeSoto starring as Duke, as well […]

BINGEABLE: SLOW HORSES (2022) Where’s it playing? Apple TV Plus What’s it rated? TV-MA If you’re looking for an inky-black espionage series that isn’t afraid to expose the corruption of spy work and the human frailty of operatives, Slow Horses is the series for you. It follows a team of disgraced MI5 agents who’ve been […]

NEW FLICKS: FRESH Where’s it playing? Hulu What’s it rated? R Fans of black comedy horror, rejoice. This new film by director Mimi Cave and writer Lauryn Kahn will give you something to chew on. Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is fed up with modern dating. She commiserates with her bestie, Mollie (Jojo T. Gibbs), and has […]

NEW FLICKS: ENCOUNTER Where’s it playing? Amazon Prime What’s it rated? R Michael Pearce directs this paranoia-driven sci-fi adventure about former U.S. Marine Malik Khan (Riz Ahmed), who believes an alien invasion is in progress via meteors arriving on Earth carrying parasitic insects that infect and control humans from within. He embarks on a rescue […]

NEW FLICKS: THE FOREVER PRISONER (2021) Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? Not Rated This HBO Max documentary is important reminder that the Muslim world has a very good reason to think of the USA as a land of hypocrites. We may profess to be freedom loving and ruled by law, but try […]

BINGEABLE: ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (2021-present) Where’s it playing? Hulu What’s it rated? TV-PG Creator Quinta Brunson stars in the mockumentary TV series Abbott Elementary—starting its second season on March 22—that follows the challenges of budget-strapped inner city elementary school in Philadelphia. Set up like The Office (2005-2013), an unseen documentary camera crew follows the dedicated teachers […]

NEW FLICKS: KIMI Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? R Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich, Ocean’s Eleven, Magic Mike) directs this thriller about Angela Childs (Zoë Kravitz), an agoraphobic tech worker whose job is to monitor data streams from a new smart speaker called Kimi, making corrections to its software. Unlike other smart speakers […]

BLAST FROM THE PAST: THE SHOOTING (1966) Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? PG This largely forgotten gem from 1966 recently found its way to HBO Max, and for any serious cinephile, it’s essential viewing—an existentialist Western with a minimalist style filmed in the Utah desert in 1965 by director Monte Hellman at […]

NEW FLICKS: ANTLERS Where’s it playing? Redbox, On demand What’s it rated? R What’s it rated? R           When? 2021 Where’s it showing? Redbox Co-writer Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Black Mass) directs this supernatural horror thriller about a schoolteacher, Julia Meadows (Keri Russell), who suspects one of her students, Lucas (Jeremy […]