Sun Screen

THE PAPER TIGERS Where’s it playing? Redbox, On demand What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth? Full price (Glen Starkey) In his feature-length debut, writer-director Quoc Bao Tran helms this action comedy about three former kung fu prodigies—Danny (Alain Uy), Hing (Ron Yuan), and Jim (Mykel Shannon Jenkins)—who’ve grown into middle-aged nobodies with dead-end jobs […]

THE NEW MUTANTS Where’s it playing? HBO Max, On demand What’s it rated? PG-13 Co-writer/director Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) helms this confused sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romance, drama, and unintentional comedy about five young mutants forced to live together in a secret facility overseen by the Nurse Ratchet-like Dr. Reyes (Alice Braga), whose […]

TV REVIEW: EXTERMINATE ALL THE BRUTES (2021) Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? TV-MA Filmmaker Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) helms this four-part series that reexamines Western civilization and its path to the New World, revealing the truth behind our history rather than the whitewashed version we’ve told ourselves. With brutal […]

BOSS LEVEL Where’s it playing? Hulu What’s it rated? R I can’t believe this is a film that was almost never released. Directed by Joe Carnahan (The Grey, The A-Team, Smokin’ Aces), it was planned for release on Aug. 16, 2019. Instead it was shelved. Thank goodness it’s found a home on Hulu. It’s a […]

THE SUNLIT NIGHT Where’s it playing? Hulu What’s it rated? R David Wnendt directs Rebecca Dinerstein’s screenplay based on her novel about Frances (Jenny Slate), an aspiring painter who takes a job helping Nils (Fridtjov Såheim), a famous artist, create a barn installation in Norway.  Frances is tired of her everyday life. Her parents are […]

TV REVIEW: WARRIOR Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? TV-MA Andrew Koji stars as Ah Sahm, a Chinese martial arts prodigy who travels to San Francisco in the late 1800s in search of his sister, Xiaojing (Dianne Doan), who immigrated years earlier and is now known as Mai Ling, wife of Long Zii […]

TV REVIEW: PAINTING WITH JOHN (2021) Where’s it playing? HBO Max What’s it rated? TV-MA Think of HBO Max’s quirky new series Painting with John as the anti-Bob Ross and his The Joy of Painting PBS series. In fact, in the opening episode, star John Lurie says, “Bob Ross was wrong. Everyone can’t paint.” The […]

TV REVIEW: ONE MISSISSIPPI Where’s it playing? Amazon Prime What’s it rated? TV-MA Running two seasons, comedian Tig Notaro’s One Mississippi offers a semi-autobiographical account of her return to her hometown after the sudden death of her mother. She’s recovering from breast cancer and a double mastectomy, stuck in a relationship with someone who’s nice […]

THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? Not Rated Farhad Safinia (as P.B. Shemran) directs the amazing true story of the early years of compiling the Oxford English Dictionary and the fascinating but unlikely friendship between the project leader James Murray (Mel Gibson) and murderer and asylum patient Dr. William […]

SOUL Where’s it playing? Disney Plus What’s it rated? PG Pete Docter and Kemp Powers co-direct this Pixar animated adventure comedy about Joe Gardner (voiced by Jamie Foxx), a middle school band teacher who winds up dead from an accident on the very day he gets his big break to join a famous jazz ensemble. […]

TV REVIEW: LENOX HILL Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA Netflix’s new series follows four doctors at New York City’s renowned Lenox Hill Hospital—two are neurosurgeons who take on the tough cases that have been turned away elsewhere, one is an emergency room physician, and the fourth is a chief resident OB-GYN, the […]

TV REVIEW: THE LAST KINGDOM Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA Beginning in 866 A.D. and covering more than four decades through the fourth season, the series follows Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexander Dreymon), a Saxon noble captured by the Danes as a child and raised first as a slave and then as a […]