Leonardo DiCaprio as a washed-up revolutionary hunted by Sean Penn; PTA's Pynchon action film.
A family attacked by their own doppelgangers in Santa Cruz; Jordan Peele's second film.
Tom Cruise back in the cockpit thirty-six years later, with real jets; the film that reopened cinemas.
Brad Pitt rebuilds the Oakland A's with statistics; Sorkin makes maths tense.
Two mothers, their teenagers and the sperm donor who turns up for dinner.
Keanu Reeves undercover with surfing bank robbers in president masks; Bigelow's action classic.
Two friends on a wine tour of Santa Barbara; the film that hurt Merlot sales.
Birds attack Bodega Bay for no reason; the school playground scene.
Benjamin, Mrs Robinson and the bus at the end, to Simon and Garfunkel.
Cheryl Strayed walks 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail after her mother's death.
Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes and the blood test that never worked; Carreyrou's reporting.
Isaacson's authorised biography from forty interviews; the reality distortion field.
The Joads drive from the Dust Bowl to California; Steinbeck's angriest and best.
George and Lennie and the farm they will never have; a hundred pages every school reads.
Cain and Abel in the Salinas Valley across two generations; Steinbeck's own favourite.
Oedipa Maas and a secret postal system; Pynchon in 150 pages.
A salesman-detective in a 1979 motel, the DS held like a book; Cing's noir.
The heart of America's wine country: 400 wineries, the Wine Train and hot-air balloons at dawn.
Hike volcanic spires, talus caves, and condor habitat in Pinnacles National Park.
Visit remote California islands with sea caves, kelp forests, wildlife, and rugged coastlines.
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