Flick Filosopher weekly digest Oct 19–25
Links to everything I posted at Flick Filosopher between Monday, October 19th, and Sunday, October 25th, in the plague year 2020.
I really miss sitting in a cinema...
That is all.
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Oct 19–25
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Oct 20–23
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new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Oct 19–23
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm movie review: punching way the hell up (#AmazonPrime) [pictured]
A work of breathtaking audacity. This is as perilous as comedy gets, and it’s very, very funny, often shockingly so. Sacha Baron Cohen’s scathing cultural strikes land like extinction-level asteroids.
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Love and Monsters movie review: building a future at the end of the world
This pleasantly silly-sad apocalypse, melancholy with a dash of optimism, smashes clichés and finds fresh angles on the familiar. Dylan O’Brien has a self-deprecating charm; there’s a great dog, too.
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The worst is just around the bend.
—The Nightmare Before Christmas
coming up this week...
reviews coming this week maybe (probably I should stop promising...):
Sophia Coppola’s On the Rocks
Robert Zemeckis’s The Witches
historical drama Radium Girls
documentary Naughty Books
Netflix’s Enola Holmes
the Charlie Kaufman mindbender I’m Thinking of Ending Things
writer-director Jon Stewart’s political dramedy Irresistible
some London Film Festival flicks