Happiest Season: lesbian Christmas rom-com now streaming
Everything that happened at Flick Filosopher between Monday, November 30th, and Sunday, December 6th, in the plague year 2020.
streaming debuts will go big in 2021...
Happy December, dear reader, and welcome to the final month of this terrible year.
Have you heard the big film news? Warner Bros announced a few days ago that its entire slate of movies intended for theatrical release in 2021 will land on HBO Max on the same day they debut in whatever cinemas are open. (In the US, that is. No plans for simultaneous streaming debuts for the rest of the world have yet been mentioned.) That means that — after Wonder Woman 1984 “opens” on HBO Max on Christmas Day — would-have-been blockbusters including Godzilla vs Kong, The Matrix 4, In the Heights, The Suicide Squad, Dune, and many more will be watchable at home.
However 2021 plays out pandemic-wise, Hollywood may have taken a step in a direction that it may be difficult to come back from.
But movies are still movies, no matter how we watch them. And I will still be here to discuss them with you.
—MaryAnn
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new at flick filosopher, Nov 30–Dec 06
Fanny Lye deliver’d from her own deliverance with the dick-washed US poster for The Delivered
It’s the dick-washing of The Sapphires all over again.
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new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Nov 24–Dec 04
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new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Nov 23–Dec 04
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Happiest Season movie review: don we now our gay apparel… (#Hulu) [pictured]
Finds something fresh and gently feminist in the tropes and claptrap of an overbaked genre. Stewart and Davis have terrific chemistry, and the supporting cast of modern legends of funny is to die for.
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It’s the time of miracles. So be of good cheer...
—Die Hard
coming up this week...
really hoping to get to reviews of:
fossil-hunting love story Ammonite; starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan
drama Luxor, starring Andrea Riseborough
The Christmas Chronicles 2, on Netflix, sequel to the cheeky 2018 Kurt Russell–as–Santa Claus flick
the Melissa McCarthy comedy Superintelligence
more London Film Festival flicks
and still on the drawing board, if perhaps slightly backburnered:
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