Alex Honnold climbs El Capitan without a rope; you know he lives and it is still unbearable.
A Sacramento senior year, and a mother-daughter argument that never quite ends.
A barber blackmails his wife's lover to get into dry cleaning; Deakins in black and white.
Spielberg's sequel, with the trailer over the cliff and a T. rex in San Diego.
Tommy Caldwell's nineteen days on the hardest climb on El Capitan.
The Rolling Stones at Altamont and the stabbing caught on camera.
A motorcycle club in California as Hamlet; Charlie Hunnam and Katey Sagal.
The Bluth family after the arrest of the father; the sitcom built for rewatching.
A start-up with a compression algorithm and the tech industry as farce; Mike Judge.
Monterey mothers, a school fundraiser and a death; Kidman, Witherspoon and Streep.
Leonardo DiCaprio as a washed-up revolutionary hunted by Sean Penn; PTA's Pynchon action film.
Two wedding guests stuck in the same day; the time loop as romantic comedy.
Tom Cruise back in the cockpit thirty-six years later, with real jets; the film that reopened cinemas.
A family attacked by their own doppelgangers in Santa Cruz; Jordan Peele's second film.
Something in the sky above a Californian horse ranch; Jordan Peele's UFO western.
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.
Two friends on a wine tour of Santa Barbara; the film that hurt Merlot sales.
Keanu Reeves undercover with surfing bank robbers in president masks; Bigelow's action classic.
Birds attack Bodega Bay for no reason; the school playground scene.
Benjamin, Mrs Robinson and the bus at the end, to Simon and Garfunkel.
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