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NEW FLICKS: THE FOREVER PRISONER (2021) Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? Not Rated This HBO Max documentary is important reminder that the Muslim world has a very good reason to think of the USA as a land of hypocrites. We may profess to be freedom loving and ruled by law, but try […]

BINGEABLE: ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (2021-present) Where’s it playing? Hulu What’s it rated? TV-PG Creator Quinta Brunson stars in the mockumentary TV series Abbott Elementary—starting its second season on March 22—that follows the challenges of budget-strapped inner city elementary school in Philadelphia. Set up like The Office (2005-2013), an unseen documentary camera crew follows the dedicated teachers […]

BINGEABLE: WOLF LIKE ME (2022) Where’s it playing? Peacock What’s it rated? TV-MA This Peacock original series brings together funny people Josh Gad and Isla Fisher in a kooky rom-com series that follows the beginning of a relationship between two people who each have their own freighter-sized amount of baggage. Gary (Gad) is a single […]

NEW FLICKS: KIMI Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? R Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich, Ocean’s Eleven, Magic Mike) directs this thriller about Angela Childs (Zoë Kravitz), an agoraphobic tech worker whose job is to monitor data streams from a new smart speaker called Kimi, making corrections to its software. Unlike other smart speakers […]

BINGEABLE: INVENTING ANNA (2022) Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA I remember hearing about Anna Delvey while her trial was going on, but I had no idea the depths to which her deceptions went. The “this whole story is completely true, except for all the parts that are totally made up” retelling of […]

NEW FLICKS: I WANT YOU BACK Where’s it playing? Amazon Prime What’s it rated? R Break-ups suck, and watching the person you thought you were perfectly happy with move on sucks even more. This funny, lighthearted rom-com brings together funny people Charlie Day as Peter and Jenny Slate as Emma–two people who hatch a mutual […]

BLAST FROM THE PAST: THE SHOOTING (1966) Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? PG This largely forgotten gem from 1966 recently found its way to HBO Max, and for any serious cinephile, it’s essential viewing—an existentialist Western with a minimalist style filmed in the Utah desert in 1965 by director Monte Hellman at […]

BINGEABLE: THE WOMAN IN THE HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE GIRL IN THE WINDOW (2022) Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA Kristen Bell gives it her best deadpan humor in this first season of Netflix’s new series. We soon learn that Anna’s life is far from perfect. Her husband is now an […]

NEW FLICKS: ANTLERS Where’s it playing? Redbox, On demand What’s it rated? R What’s it rated? R           When? 2021 Where’s it showing? Redbox Co-writer Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Black Mass) directs this supernatural horror thriller about a schoolteacher, Julia Meadows (Keri Russell), who suspects one of her students, Lucas (Jeremy […]

BINGEABLE: STATION ELEVEN (2021) Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? TV-MA Based on Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel, Station Eleven is a post-apocalyptic tale that weaves through time—both at the beginning of the pandemic that wipes out most of the world and then to 20 years later. At the center of this […]

NEW FLICKS: DON’T LOOK UP Where’s it playing? The Palm Theater in SLO, Netflix What’s it rated? R Writer-director Adam McKay (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) helms this biting satire about the nonchalant global response to an impending planet-killing meteor strike. Mild-mannered astronomy professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his doctoral candidate student […]

BINGEABLE: CASTLEVANIA (2017-2021) Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA Castlevania is a poignant work of art, considering its source material is an 8-bit Japanese video game from the 1980s. Set in a Middle Ages-esque eastern Europe ravaged by vampires at the command of none other than Dracula himself, this animated Netflix series is […]