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Le Vigne Winery hosts a special outdoor screening of Bottle Shock Aug. 8

Bottle ShockWhat’s it rated? PG-13 When? 2008 Where’s it showing? Le Vigne Winery, 5115 Buena Vista Drive, Paso Robles, Saturday, Aug. 8 (doors at 6:30, film at 8 p.m.; 21-and-older; $22.84 at pasopictureshow.com) Randall Miller (Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing & Charm School, Nobel Son, CBGB) directs this quirky comedy-drama he co-wrote with Jody Savin and […]

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Old-school sword-and-sandal epic, The Odyssey, reflects the current zeitgeist

Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer, Dunkirk, Interstellar, Inception, Batman Begins) wrote and directed this action fantasy based on Homer’s epic poem about Odysseus (Matt Damon), king of Ithaca, who after the Trojan War faces a dangerous voyage home to reunite with his wife, Penelope (Anne Hathaway). During the perilous journey, he encounters creatures such as the cyclops […]

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Big Mistakes follows siblings blackmailed into organized crime

Big MistakesWhat’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2026 Where’s it showing? NetflixĀ  Nicky (Dan Levy) is a put-upon pastor whose mother, Linda (Laurie Metcalf); troublemaking sister, Morgan (Taylor Ortega); and suck-up sister, Natalie (Abby Quinn), keep him irritatingly busy alongside his congregation—a congregation happy to have a gay pastor as long as he is ā€œnon-practicing.ā€  Morgan’s […]

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I Will Find You is a red-herring-filled Harlan Coben-based mystery

Created by Robert Hull based on the 2023 Harlan Coben novel of the same name, this crime drama follows David Burroughs (Sam Worthington), wrongly imprisoned for his son Matthew’s (Jasper Rainn Larence) murder. After five years of a life sentence, David learns from his ex-wife’s sister, Rachel (Britt Lower), that Matthew (now played by Ashton […]

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Supergirl is lightweight fun striving for heavyweight

Directed by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl; Fright Night; I, Tonya; Cruella) from Ana Nogueira’s feature-length debut screenplay, this ā€œgirl saving girlsā€ sisterhood story takes aim at patriarchy and sort of hits its mark. Produced by James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy, The Suicide Squad, Superman), Gillespie and Nogueira adopt his irreverence, campy […]

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