weekly digest: returning after a long absence, yikes...
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, Aug 5, to Sunday, Aug 11 (with a few earlier stragglers)
Sorry to be late with this. And by “late” I don’t mean “today is Wednesday and I usually get these out on Monday, and ideally I’d get to a place where I can send them on Sunday.” Though that’s true. No, by “late” I mean: I haven’t sent one of these in *checks calendar* two months.
Ridiculous.
To be fair to myself, I also have written almost nothing in the last two months, so it’s not like you’ve missed much by not getting these emails.
*sigh*
I was more productive last week, and hope to be so again this week, so I think I may be turning a corner on the mess that my head has been for far too long. *fingers crossed*
Oh, and my ranking of 2024 films, which had been sadly neglected, is now all up to date (I have been watching some movies, though not as many as usual), as is my Letterboxd diary. The two go hand in hand, though the diary includes all movies I see, not just new releases. As you may notice, I’ve been indulging in some comfort movies of late.
Onward…
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Aug 05–11
curated cinema: a little gem from early this year is new on Netflix
2024’s Wicked Little Letters is streaming on Netflix in the US and the UK. [read more]
Robot Dreams movie review: sighs of the machines
Immerse yourself in pure unalloyed joy with a sweet, deceptively simple carbon-silicon platonic romance. Even the poignant bittersweetness of this emotional roller coaster is affirming and uplifting. [read the review | cinemas US, VOD UK]
curated cinema: a quarter of a century later, a movie that we can now see as a drama about climate-change
2000’s The Perfect Storm is on Paramount+ in the US, Prime in the UK (and other services, too). [read more]
Twisters movie review: no winds of change blowing here
Hooray for Glen Powell’s star rising, but this absurdly coy movie — is it a sequel? a remake? — is a cowardly, reckless missed opportunity: it’s deeply baffling that it omits any hint of global warming. [read the review | cinemas US/UK; premium VOD US]
curated cinema: a doc to help understand the nightmare of the AT&T data breach
2016 documentary A Good American is on Kanopy in the US, Prime in the UK. [read more]
Kinds of Kindness movie review: twilight zones of contention [pictured]
A mad monstrosity of a movie: absurdist, enigmatic, perverse. Lanthimos’s typical grotesque humor is on full display. Yay for a film that actually attempts to capture how insane the world is today? [read the review | cinemas US/UK]
announcing the Alliance of Women Film Journalists’ Win With Women Movie Giveaway
Win a subscription to Film Movement Plus, streaming a curated selection of acclaimed features from around the world, including festival prize winners, cult and arthouse classics, documentaries and more. [read more]
what I’m watching and bingeing
(nothing at the moment, too depressed to watch TV, how pathetic is that?)
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
based-on-a-videogame Borderlands
political documentary War Game
folk horror Starve Acre
M. Night Shyamalan’s latest, Trap
return of the facehuggers in Alien: Romulus
romantic crime comedy Hit Man
Bigfoot drama Sasquatch Sunset
pregnancy comedy Babes
tennis triangle Challengers
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
queer parody The People’s Joker
Dev Patel’s directorial debut, Monkey Man
lesbian crime romance Love Lies Bleeding
And I have not forgotten about all the other reviews I’ve been promising here, but I’m gonna keep the list elsewhere for now so I stop torturing you…
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