The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Netflix Masked as schools with a focus on “healing troubled teens,” Ivy Ridge and its sister schools run by the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (known as WWASP) aren’t out to help teenagers become better people, they’re […]
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BLAST FROM THE PAST: Vertigo
Vertigo What’s it rated? PG When? 1958 Where’s it showing? The Palm Theatre of San Luis Obispo on March 23 and 24 (1, 4, and 7 p.m.), and March 25 (7 p.m.) Alfred Hitchcock directs this psychological thriller about a former San Francisco police detective turned private eye, John “Scottie” Ferguson (James Stewart), who’s hired […]
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BLAST FROM THE PAST: 13 Ghosts
13 Ghosts What’s it rated? Unrated When? 1960 Where’s it showing? The Bay Theater of Morro Bay, Monday, March 25, at 5:30 p.m. William Castle (House on Haunted Hill) directs this ghost story by Robb White (The Tingler). Occultist Dr. Plato Zorba dies, leaving his ramshackle mansion to his impoverished nephew, Cyrus (Donald Woods), and […]
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Damsel proves a distressed lady can save herself
Damsel What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth, Glen? Matinee What’s it worth, Anna? Matinee Where’s it showing? Netflix Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later) directs this dark fantasy about dutiful Elodie (Millie Bobby Brown), a royal from an impoverished kingdom, whose father, Lord Bayford (Ray Winston)—in exchange for wealth—arranges to marry her to Prince […]
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BINGEABLE: Can I Tell You A Secret?
Can I Tell You A Secret? What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Max Three women recount their ordeal involving an online stalker who seems to be out to destroy their lives. All three have a very active social media presence that gets infiltrated by a mysterious figure who will go to mind-boggling […]
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Death and Other Details is an old-fashioned whodunit with a modern twist
Death And Other Details What’s it rated? TV-MA What’s it worth, Glen? Full price What’s it worth, Anna? Full price Where’s it showing? Hulu Creators Heidi Cole McAdams and Mike Weiss helm this Agatha Christie-style mystery set on a restored vintage ocean liner touring the Mediterranean Sea. When a murder occurs, famed detective Rufus Cotesworth […]
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BLAST FROM THE PAST: Do The Right Thing
Do The Right Thing What’s it rated? R When? 1989 Where’s it showing? The Palm Theatre in SLO on March 16 and 17 (1:30, 4:15, and 7 p.m.), and March 18 (7 p.m.) Writer-director Spike Lee (Jungle Fever, Malcom X, BlacKkKlansman) scored an early hit with this twice Oscar-nominated dramedy about race relations in the […]
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Spaceman is an unusual exploration of estrangement
Spaceman What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Glen? Matinee What’s it worth, Anna? Matinee Where’s it showing? Netflix Johan Renck (Chernobyl, Breaking Bad) directs this science fiction drama based on Jaroslav Kalfar’s 2017 novel Spaceman in Bohemia about Jakub Procházka (Adam Sandler), an astronaut on a solo mission on the edge of the universe, […]
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BINGEABLE: True Detective: Night Country
True Detective: Night Country What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Max Anthology series True Detective is always trying to recapture the magic of its premiere season. While there is no replacement for Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, this fourth season, Night Country, brings the heat with legendary Jodi Foster as Police Chief […]
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NEW FLICKS: Dune: Part Two
Dune: Part Two What’s it rated? PG-13 When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria, Movies Lompoc, Regal Edwards Arroyo Grande Co-writer and director Denis Villeneuve returns to his epic screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s famed 1965 science fiction novel about a future feudal interstellar society of competing noble houses controlling planetary fiefs. […]
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BINGEABLE: Boy Swallows Universe
Boy Swallows Universe What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Netflix Based on the bestselling novel by Trenton Dalton, this family dramedy centers on precocious Eli Bell (Felix Cameron), a 13-year-old living with his selectively nonverbal older brother, Gus (Lee Tiger Halley), mother Frances (Phoebe Tonkin), and stepfather Lyle (Travis Fimmel), who struggles […]
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NEW FLICKS: Lover, Stalker, Killer
Lover, Stalker, Killer What’s it rated? Not rated When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Netflix Nothing ever goes wrong in a love triangle, right? There’s a lot of true crime out there, but even in a world filled with stories of love gone wrong, secret identities, and crazy exes, the story of Dave Kroupa, Cari Farver, […]
