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NEW FLICKS: GEORGE CARLIN’S AMERICAN DREAM (2022) Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? TV-MA Directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio, this George Carlin biography mixes interviews with Carlin’s family members and contemporary comics such as Stephen Colbert, Patton Oswalt, Bill Burr, Chris Rock, and Jerry Seinfeld, as well as archival material from […]

NEW FLICKS: WATERMAN (2021) Where’s it playing? PBS What’s it rated? Not Rated Isaac Halasima (The Last Descent) directs this documentary about Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, a five-time Olympic medalist and native Hawaiian who’s credited with introducing surfing to the world. The film uses archival materials and reenactments with Duane DeSoto starring as Duke, as well […]

BINGEABLE: SLOW HORSES (2022) Where’s it playing? Apple TV Plus What’s it rated? TV-MA If you’re looking for an inky-black espionage series that isn’t afraid to expose the corruption of spy work and the human frailty of operatives, Slow Horses is the series for you. It follows a team of disgraced MI5 agents who’ve been […]

BINGEABLE: ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL (2022) Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA David E. Kelley has us unraveling a mystery as this six-part series unfolds. Prosecutor Kate Woodcroft is obsessively entrenched in her case against Parliament Minister James Whitehouse. Her own dark history is teased out as we also see—through flashbacks—how the two […]

BINGEABLE: THE THING ABOUT PAM (2022) Where’s it playing? Peacock What’s it rated? TV-14 Get ready to get angry when you settle in to watch The Thing About Pam. Renee Zellweger dons a bunch of prosthetics to play Pam Hupp, and while she is not unrecognizable, she certainly looks much closer to the real Pam […]

NEW FLICKS: FRESH Where’s it playing? Hulu What’s it rated? R Fans of black comedy horror, rejoice. This new film by director Mimi Cave and writer Lauryn Kahn will give you something to chew on. Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is fed up with modern dating. She commiserates with her bestie, Mollie (Jojo T. Gibbs), and has […]

BINGEABLE: LIFE & BETH (2022) Where’s it playing? Hulu What’s it rated? TV-MA I know some people don’t dig Amy Schumer, but I have no qualms with stating that you’re wrong, and her new series Life & Beth may as well be a Chicken Soup for the Soul book with more humor and way better […]

BINGEABLE: BAD VEGAN: FAME. FRAUD. FUGITIVES. (2022) Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA It seems stories of cons, crime, and deception are hot now with the popularity of documentaries like The Tinder Swindler and The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman, as well as the dramatized true stories portrayed in Inventing Anna and […]

BINGEABLE: UNDERCURRENT: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF KIM WALL (2022) Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? TV-MA In 2020, HBO released The Investigation, a six-part Danish series detailing the investigation of journalist Kim Wall’s mysterious murder onboard a privately owned submarine. It must have gone over well because the story comes once again to HBO […]

NEW FLICKS: ENCOUNTER Where’s it playing? Amazon Prime What’s it rated? R Michael Pearce directs this paranoia-driven sci-fi adventure about former U.S. Marine Malik Khan (Riz Ahmed), who believes an alien invasion is in progress via meteors arriving on Earth carrying parasitic insects that infect and control humans from within. He embarks on a rescue […]

NEW FLICKS: VIVARIUM Where’s it playing? Amazon Prime What’s it rated? R Gemma (Imogen Poots) and Tom (Jesse Eisenberg) think it is finally time to take the next step and look at homes together, but instead of walking into their future, they walk into a nightmare. Eerily odd real estate agent Martin (Jonathan Aris) leads […]