Expend4bles What’s it rated? R When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria, Movies Lompoc, Fair Oaks Arroyo Grande, Regal Edwards Arroyo Grande Scott Waugh (Act of Valor, Need for Speed) directs this fourth installment in the Expendables franchise, a series of comedic action flicks about a group of mercenaries. Its gimmick has […]
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A Haunting in Venice is a stylish but old fashioned whodunit
A Haunting in Venice What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth, Glen? Matinee What’s it worth, Anna? Matinee Where’s it showing? Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria, Movies Lompoc, Regal Edwards Arroyo Grande Kenneth Branagh is back with his third go-around rebooting classic mysteries by novelist Agatha Christie. After Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and […]
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NEW FLICKS: Hypnotic
Hypnotic What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Peacock Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, Spy Kids, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For) directs this sci-fi mystery that mixes elements of Inception, Looper, Fury, and Firestarter into a detective story with a significant mid-film twist. Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck), an Austin Police Department detective, is […]
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BINGEABLE: Down for Love
Down for Love What’s it rated? TV-14 When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Netflix This five-episode reality series by Netflix follows several young hopefuls looking for love. It’s similar to their program Love on the Spectrum, but instead of autism diagnoses, Netflix introduces us to six young men and women who all have been diagnosed with […]
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BINGEABLE: Live To 100: Screts Of The Blue Zones
Live To 100: Screts Of The Blue Zones What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Netflix Certain areas of the world are known as “Blue Zones,” regions where residents live longer than average. Netflix’s new series Live to 100 takes us around the world to explore what it is about these areas that […]
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BINGEABLE: Who Is Erin Carter?
Who Is Erin Carter? What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Netflix Erin Carter (Evin Ahmad), a British substitute teacher living in Spain, has a quiet life. Her Spanish husband, Jordi (Sean Teale), treats Erin’s young daughter, Harper (Indica Watson), like she is his own. Erin’s hoping to get hired at the school […]
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Bottoms is a guffaw-worthy teen black comedy
Bottoms What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Glen? Full price What’s it worth, Anna? Full price Where’s it showing? Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria Emma Seligman (Shiva Baby) directs and co-writes with star Rachel Sennott this raunchy teen black comedy about two besties and lesbians—PJ (Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri)—who are at the bottom […]
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BINGEABLE: Painkiller
Painkiller What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Netflix In 2021, Hulu brought us the mini-series Dopesick, which took us to the boardrooms, courtrooms, and living rooms of those inside the opioid crisis. 2023 brings us Painkiller, another look at the crisis, the cover-up, and the eventual rulings against Purdue and the Sackler […]
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BINGEABLE: Special Ops: Lioness
Special Ops: Lioness What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Paramount Plus In my mind, writer Taylor Sheridan can do no wrong. He’s penned compelling action films such as Sicario, Hell or High Water, and Wind River, and since turning his attention to TV, he’s created series such as Yellowstone and its spinoffs […]
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The Equalizer 3 is a fitting finale to this rebooted trilogy
The Equalizer 3 What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Glen? Full price What’s it worth, Anna? Full price Where’s it showing? Movies Lompoc, Regal Edwards Arroyo Grande, Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria Antoine Fuqua (The Replacement Killers, Training Day, King Arthur, Shooter, Brooklyn’s Finest, Emancipation) returns to direct this third installment in the film […]
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I Am So Not Inviting You to My Bat Mitzvah is a sweet, funny coming-of-age story
I Am So Not Inviting You to My Bat Mitzvah What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth, Glen? Full price What’s it worth, Anna? Full price Where’s it showing? Netflix Sammi Cohen directs this coming-of-age comedy about besties Stacy Friedman (Sunny Sandler) and Lydia Rodriguez Katz (Samantha Lorraine), who have a falling out over a […]
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NEW FLICKS: Heart of Stone
Heart of Stone What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Netflix Tom Harper (Wild Rose, The Aeronauts) directs this by-the-numbers spy thriller that’s sadly short on thrills. As I understand it, the idea was that it would begin a Mission: Impossible-style franchise with Gal Gadot in the lead, but after this rote, lackluster […]
