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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 […]

BLAST FROM THE PAST: COWBOY BEBOP (1998) Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-14 If you were ever planning on giving Netflix’s new live-action iteration of Cowboy Bebop a whirl, why not rewatch or, if it’s your first time, dip your toes into the original anime beforehand? Conveniently, both shows are currently available through […]

BINGEABLE: KUNG FU (2021) Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? TV-14 Based on the 1970s TV series Kung Fu, which featured David Carradine as a Shaolin monk wandering the Wild West and righting wrongs, armed only with his martial arts skills, this updated version set in the present centers on Chinese American Nicky […]

NEW FLICKS: SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS Where’s it playing? Disney Plus What’s it rated? PG-13 Co-writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton (The Glass Castle, Just Mercy) helms this fantasy action-adventure that begins with the story of Xu Wenwu (Tony Chiu-Wai Leung), who a thousand years ago discovered the mystical 10 rings, which grant […]

NEW FLICKS: ARMY OF THIEVES Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? R German actor Matthias Schweighöfer was the funniest part of Zack Snyder’s early 2021 zombie film Army of the Dead, about a group of mercenaries that infiltrate quarantined zombie-infested Las Vegas to steal millions from an underground vault. His safecracker Ludwig Dieter, who […]

NEW FLICKS: RED NOTICE Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? PG-13 Writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber (Skyscraper, Central Intelligence, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) helms this old fashioned action heist comedy about FBI Agent John Hartley (Dwayne Johnson) who’s brought in by Interpol Inspector Urvashi Das (Ritu Arya) to help capture one of the world’s […]

NEW FLICKS: FINCH Where’s it playing? Apple TV Plus What’s it rated? PG-13 Miguel Sapochnik (Repo Men) directs this family-friendly charmer about an ailing robotics engineer named Finch Weinberg, who lives with his dog, Goodyear (Seamus), and a robot (voiced by Caleb Landry Jones) that he created to take care of the dog after his […]

BINGEABLE: TELL ME YOUR SECRETS (2021) Where’s it playing? Amazon Prime What’s it rated? TV-14 Amazon Originals has given us yet another binge-fest series with this mysterious and complicated tale, weaving the storylines of intersecting characters throughout time. Karen Miller, aka, Emma Hall (Lily Rabe), has just been released from a seven-year prison stint after […]

BINGEABLE: SQUID GAME (2021) Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA I have to admit, this Korean miniseries sounded pretty silly to me—a bunch of adults playing kids’ games … with their lives in the balance. However, after struggling through the beginning of the first episode, I quickly became hooked and binged through the […]

BINGEABLE: MAID (2021) Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA Alex’s (Margaret Qualley) life is pretty bleak. She’s a young mother in an emotionally—and on the verge of physically—abusive relationship. Her 2 1/2-year-old daughter Maddie (Rylea Nevaeh Whittet) is adorable and well loved, but Alex feels deeply that she isn’t giving her daughter the […]