Don’t Move What’s it rated? R When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Netflix Brian Netto (Delivery: The Beast Within) and Adam Schindler (Intruders) co-direct this psychological horror thriller about Richard (Finn Wittrock), a serial killer who injects a paralytic agent into his next victim, Iris (Kelsey Asbille), a mother who lost her child. She’s forced to […]
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BLAST FROM THE PAST: Halloween
Halloween What’s it rated? R When? 1978 Where’s it showing? Thursday, Oct. 31, at 7 p.m., at the Palm Theatre of San Luis Obispo Writer-director-composer John Carpenter helms this classic slasher film about mental patient Michael Myers, committed to a sanitarium at age 6 for stabbing his teenage sister to death with a chef’s knife. […]
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Venom: The Last Dance is an action-packed, banter-filled romp
Venom: The Last Dance What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth, Anna? Matinee What’s it worth, Glen? Matinee Where’s it showing? Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria, Movies Lompoc, Regal Edwards Arroyo Grande In her directorial debut, writer Kelly Marcel (Saving Mr. Banks, Fifty Shades of Grey, Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage) directs this script […]
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BLAST FROM THE PAST: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show What’s it rated? R When? 1975 Where’s it showing? Thursday, Oct. 31 (6 p.m.; 18-and-older; $32.36 to $39.05 at ticketweb.com), and Friday, Nov. 1 (6 and 9 p.m.; 18-and-older; $32.36 at ticketweb.com) at Rod and Hammer Rock It’s Halloween, so naturally the 1975 cult classic musical comedy The Rocky Horror […]
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Tokyo Cowboy depicts a stirring journey of self-discovery
Tokyo Cowboy What’s it rated? PG What’s it worth, Anna? Full price What’s it worth, Glen? Full price Where’s it showing? Opens Oct. 25 at the Palm Theatre of San Luis Obispo Marc Marriott directs this independent film scripted by Dave Boyle and Ayako Fujitani about Japanese corporate turnaround artist Hideki Sakai (Arata Iura), an […]
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BINGEABLE: Monsters: The Lyle and Eric Menendez Story
Monsters: The Lyle and Eric Menendez Story What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Netflix The Menendez brothers are all over the news again, in part thanks to the new season of Monsters, which tells the murderous tale of how the two brothers wound up in prison for killing their parents in 1989. […]
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NEW FLICKS: Megalopolis
Megalopolis What’s it rated? R When? 2024 Where’s it showing? The Bay Theatre of Morro Bay Auteur Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making fable-like passion project has finally arrived with a resounding clunk, but does it deserve being panned? I mean, this is the director of The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now, and The Conversation we’re talking about. […]
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Salem’s Lot is a classic vampire tale that feels cliché
Salem’s Lot What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Anna? Stream it What’s it worth, Glen? Stream it Where’s it showing? Max Writer-director Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home) offers this new adaptation of Stephen King’s 1975 novel about author Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman), who returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot to research a […]
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NEW FLICKS: Hold Your Breath
Hold Your Breath What’s it rated? R When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Hulu Karrie Crouse and William Joines co-direct this screenplay by Crouse about Margaret Bellum (Sarah Paulson), a mother living on a devastated Oklahoma farm at the height of the Dust Bowl. Her husband’s away, leaving Margaret alone to care from their daughters, Rose […]
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NEW FLICKS: Will & Harper
Will & Harper What’s it rated? R When? 2024 Where’s it showing? The Palm Theatre of San Luis Obispo and Netflix TV writer Harper Steele and actor Will Ferrell met at Saturday Night Live. Back then, Will knew Harper by her dead name, Andrew. Unbeknownst to Will, Harper’s life was a complicated web of secrets […]
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BINGEABLE: Nobody Wants This
Nobody Wants This What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Netflix Joanne (Kristen Bell) is an open book, at least on her podcast that she hosts with her sister, Morgan (Justine Lupe). The two are looking for their big break, but what that means to each of them feels very different. Both are […]
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NEW FLICKS: Wolfs
Wolfs What’s it rated? R When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Apple TV Plus Writer-director Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) helms this mismatched-buddy comedy about two professional fixers—George Clooney and Brad Pitt—who are individually hired to clean up a mess involving Manhattan District Attorney Margaret (Amy Ryan), who ends up with a dead one-night stand […]
