SILO – Review by Susan Granger

If you enjoy sci-fi thrillers, stream 10 episodes of the first season of Silo on Apple TV+. Based on a series of dystopian novels by Hugh Howey, it revolves around the inhabitants of a 144-story subterranean bunker built to shelter 10,000 people after an apocalyptic event left Earth uninhabitable. Designed with a huge spiral staircase in its center and no elevator, living space in the Silo is strictly stratified. Those in authority and the elite occupy the top floors; the white-collar labor force is in the middle; and the blue-collar mechanical workers are down below.

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ALL ABOUT NINA – Review by MaryAnn Johanson

Hail Mary, full of rage. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is utterly incendiary as standup comic Nina Geld in Eva Vives’s feature directorial debut, working from her own semiautobiographical script. We’ve never seen a movie about a woman quite like All About Nina, which challenges a tired subgenre with a not-as-simple-as-it-appears gender flip.

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