Glen Starkey

THE NEW MUTANTS Where’s it playing? HBO Max, On demand What’s it rated? PG-13 Co-writer/director Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) helms this confused sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romance, drama, and unintentional comedy about five young mutants forced to live together in a secret facility overseen by the Nurse Ratchet-like Dr. Reyes (Alice Braga), whose […]

TV REVIEW: EXTERMINATE ALL THE BRUTES (2021) Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? TV-MA Filmmaker Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) helms this four-part series that reexamines Western civilization and its path to the New World, revealing the truth behind our history rather than the whitewashed version we’ve told ourselves. With brutal […]

BOSS LEVEL Where’s it playing? Hulu What’s it rated? R I can’t believe this is a film that was almost never released. Directed by Joe Carnahan (The Grey, The A-Team, Smokin’ Aces), it was planned for release on Aug. 16, 2019. Instead it was shelved. Thank goodness it’s found a home on Hulu. It’s a […]

TV REVIEW: WARRIOR Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? TV-MA Andrew Koji stars as Ah Sahm, a Chinese martial arts prodigy who travels to San Francisco in the late 1800s in search of his sister, Xiaojing (Dianne Doan), who immigrated years earlier and is now known as Mai Ling, wife of Long Zii […]

TV REVIEW: PAINTING WITH JOHN (2021) Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? TV-MA Think of HBO Max’s quirky new series Painting with John as the anti-Bob Ross and his The Joy of Painting PBS series. In fact, in the opening episode, star John Lurie says, “Bob Ross was wrong. Everyone can’t paint.” The […]

THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? Not Rated Farhad Safinia (as P.B. Shemran) directs the amazing true story of the early years of compiling the Oxford English Dictionary and the fascinating but unlikely friendship between the project leader James Murray (Mel Gibson) and murderer and asylum patient Dr. William […]

SOUL Where’s it playing? Disney Plus What’s it rated? PG Pete Docter and Kemp Powers co-direct this Pixar animated adventure comedy about Joe Gardner (voiced by Jamie Foxx), a middle school band teacher who winds up dead from an accident on the very day he gets his big break to join a famous jazz ensemble. […]

TV REVIEW: THE LAST KINGDOM Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA Beginning in 866 A.D. and covering more than four decades through the fourth season, the series follows Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexander Dreymon), a Saxon noble captured by the Danes as a child and raised first as a slave and then as a […]

TV REVIEW: HOMECOMING Where’s it playing? Amazon Prime What’s it rated? TV-MA Micah Bloomberg, Eli Horowitz, and Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot, who also directed the first season) created this mystery thriller about the secretive Geist Group, a company that purportedly helps soldiers transition to civilian life. The first season revolves around counselor Heidi Bergman (Julia […]

TV REVIEW: THE END OF THE F***ING WORLD Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA In its first season, this inky black British comedy pulls off the neat trick of exploring real issues of attachment, abandonment, narcissism, adolescence, insecurity, and homicidal urges while disguised as a mere amusement. Based on a graphic novel of […]