Glen Starkey

NEW FLICKS: DON’T LOOK UP Where’s it playing? The Palm Theater in SLO, Netflix What’s it rated? R Writer-director Adam McKay (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) helms this biting satire about the nonchalant global response to an impending planet-killing meteor strike. Mild-mannered astronomy professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his doctoral candidate student […]

BINGEABLE: KUNG FU (2021) Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? TV-14 Based on the 1970s TV series Kung Fu, which featured David Carradine as a Shaolin monk wandering the Wild West and righting wrongs, armed only with his martial arts skills, this updated version set in the present centers on Chinese American Nicky […]

NEW FLICKS: SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS Where’s it playing? Disney Plus What’s it rated? PG-13 Co-writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton (The Glass Castle, Just Mercy) helms this fantasy action-adventure that begins with the story of Xu Wenwu (Tony Chiu-Wai Leung), who a thousand years ago discovered the mystical 10 rings, which grant […]

NEW FLICKS: ARMY OF THIEVES Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? R German actor Matthias Schweighöfer was the funniest part of Zack Snyder’s early 2021 zombie film Army of the Dead, about a group of mercenaries that infiltrate quarantined zombie-infested Las Vegas to steal millions from an underground vault. His safecracker Ludwig Dieter, who […]

NEW FLICKS: RED NOTICE Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? PG-13 Writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber (Skyscraper, Central Intelligence, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) helms this old fashioned action heist comedy about FBI Agent John Hartley (Dwayne Johnson) who’s brought in by Interpol Inspector Urvashi Das (Ritu Arya) to help capture one of the world’s […]

NEW FLICKS: FINCH Where’s it playing? Apple TV Plus What’s it rated? PG-13 Miguel Sapochnik (Repo Men) directs this family-friendly charmer about an ailing robotics engineer named Finch Weinberg, who lives with his dog, Goodyear (Seamus), and a robot (voiced by Caleb Landry Jones) that he created to take care of the dog after his […]

BINGEABLE: SQUID GAME (2021) Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA I have to admit, this Korean miniseries sounded pretty silly to me—a bunch of adults playing kids’ games … with their lives in the balance. However, after struggling through the beginning of the first episode, I quickly became hooked and binged through the […]

NEW FLICKS: RIDERS OF JUSTICE Where’s it playing? Hulu What’s it rated? Not Rated I’ve been wanting to see this since it was released in May, but it didn’t come to local theaters. Now it’s finally streaming for free with a Hulu subscription. Written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen (Men & Chicken, Adam’s Apples), […]

GUILTY PLEASURES: JOLT Where’s it playing? Amazon Prime What’s it rated? R Tanya Wexler (Buffaloed, Hysteria) directs this action comedy about Lindy (Kate Beckinsale), a former bouncer prone to murderous rage who controls her homicidal tendencies with an electrode-lined vest that shocks her back to normal. Under the care of therapist Dr. Munchin (Stanley Tucci), […]

GUILTY PLEASURES: GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? R Co-writer and director Navot Papushado (Rabies, Big Bad Wolves) helms this action crime drama that’s essentially a female John Wick. The story focuses on Sam (Karen Gillan), a female assassin who’s assigned by her handler, Nathan (Paul Giamatti), to retrieve some stolen money. […]

THE PAPER TIGERS Where’s it playing? Redbox, On demand What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth? Full price (Glen Starkey) In his feature-length debut, writer-director Quoc Bao Tran helms this action comedy about three former kung fu prodigies—Danny (Alain Uy), Hing (Ron Yuan), and Jim (Mykel Shannon Jenkins)—who’ve grown into middle-aged nobodies with dead-end jobs […]