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EXTRAPOLATIONS (2023) Where’s it playing? Apple TV Plus What’s it rated? TV-MA What’s it worth? Full price (Anna Starkey) What’s it worth? Full price (Glen Starkey) Creator Scott Z. Burns (Contagion, Side Effects) helms this new anthology drama series that peers into our future to explore what life on our climate-changed planet will be like. […]

BINGEABLE: Shrinking (2023) Where’s it playing? Apple TV Plus What’s it rated? TV-PG The makers of Ted Lasso have blessed us with a new series starring Jason Segel, Harrison Ford, and Jessica Williams as therapists who work in an office together. Segel is Jimmy, a man who lost his wife in the not-too-distant past and […]

NEW FLICKS: LUTHER: THE FALLEN SUN Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? R Jamie Payne directs this film sequel to the award-winning television saga about brilliant but disgraced police detective John Luther (Idris Elba), created by novelist and scriptwriter Neil Cross. I’ve never seen the series, so if you’re wondering if you can enjoy […]

BINGEABLE: THE RELUCTATNT TRAVELER (2023) Where’s it playing? Apple TV Plus What’s it rated? TV-PG Eugene Levy isn’t the type of guy who seems like he’s interested in spending any time outside of his comfort zone, so what could be more fun than putting him in some of the most beautiful and most uncomfortable places […]

BINGEABLE: THE BIG BRUNCH (2022) Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? PG-13 I know, I know—what new can a cooking competition show really offer? But hear me out. This one focuses on the best meal there is—the one you’ll wait in line for an hour outside the new pop-up eatery to enjoy, the […]

NEW FLICKS: PAMELA: A LOVE STORY (2023) Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA Ryan White (The Keepers) directs this intimate and revealing portrait of blonde bombshell Pamela Anderson, who became a superstar playing C.J. Parker on the hit TV series Baywatch in the ’90s, fumbled an attempt to segue into film with Barb […]

NEW FLICKS: MR. HARRIGAN’S PHONE Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? PG-13 Craig (Jaeden Martell) grows to admire his employer, Mr. Harrigan (Donald Sutherland), whom he reads to from the billionaire’s magnificent library. The two grow close, forming a bond over the words on the pages they share every afternoon. Craig teaches the old […]

NEW FLICKS: SHARPER Where’s it playing? Apple TV Plus What’s it rated? R Benjamin Caron (The Crown) directs this nonlinear grifter story about various confidence games being played out in New York City by several “sharpers,” or swindlers. Who’s conning who is part of the fun as these interlayered stories unfold, with each new segment […]

BINGEABLE: THE LAST OF US (2023-present) Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? TV-MA We’re now halfway through the first season of this video game-based zombie TV series, and if you haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet, what are you waiting for? This very compelling drama has continued to improve exponentially after the first […]

BINGEABLE: POKER FACE (2023-present) Where’s it playing? Peacock What’s it rated? TV-MA The concept is no stranger—a human lie detector uses her powers to right wrongs. I think of the show Lie to Me from 2009 about the guy who read and analyzed micro expressions. We don’t know where Charlie’s (Natasha Lyonne) gift comes from […]

NEW FLICKS: BONES AND ALL Where’s it playing? Rent on Amazon Prime, Redbox, Vudu, and Apple TV What’s it rated? R Luca Guadagino (Call Me by Your Name, A Bigger Splash) directs David Kajganich’s screenplay based on Camille DeAngelis’s 2015 novel about Maren (Taylor Russell), a young woman who’s beginning to confront her penchant for […]

BINGEABLE: CUNK ON EARTH (2022) Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA My world has been opened to Philomena Cunk and the glorious hilarity that Diane Morgan brings to the character. I didn’t know of Diane until I watched Ricky Gervais’ After Life and saw her performance as his gloriously obtuse coworker. Little did […]