in which I encounter video nasties (and some online, too)...
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, September 27th, to Sunday, October 3rd
I get so many emails — like, multiple per day — offering me the chance to post sponsored content at FlickFilosopher.com, or to slip in a link to a seemingly random site, or for some other “lucrative” opportunity for a startup or a down-on-their-luck company to glom onto the positive digital karma my work has accrued. Cuz it turns out that when you post good stuff that people like to read, and when you have a domain that’s been active for decades*, that’s very attractive to newbies online. A link from a site like mine is really good for that other site’s SEO.
(*I registered “flickfilosopher.com” in March 1998, six months after I started the site on the free web space AOL gave its members. Space the site quickly outgrew. Yes, friends, that feels like a million years ago and a whole ’nothing virtual world.)
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PS: The “video nasties” thing in the headline/email subject is a reference to Censor, which I reviewed this week. It’s a British horror film that meta-references exploitive gorefests that, in the 1980s in the UK, came to be called video nasties. It’s not a phrase that made it across the Atlantic, so I thought I should clarify!
new at flick filosopher, Sep 27–Oct 03
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Oct 01
French fantasy-horror drama Titane; animated sequel The Addams Family 2; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Sep 30–Oct 01
James Bond returns in No Time to Die; German melodrama Next Door… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Sep 28–Oct 01
Drama The Card Counter lands on premium VOD; Tony Soprano origin story The Many Saints of Newark arrives on HBO Max; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Sep 27–Oct 01
French oddity Deerskin; delightful documentary The Truffle Hunters; more… [get the full rundown]
curated: the boy who was almost Anakin Skywalker
Please watch this absolutely bittersweet and poignant short film about Devon Michael, a child star in the 1990s who was on the very shortlist to play Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace… [read more]
question of the weekend: what TV show do you never fast-forward through the opening credits?
Maybe the show’s opener is simply a beautiful introduction to characters and places you love. Maybe the theme song is *chef’s kiss.* Maybe it’s something you cannot quite put your finger on… [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
Censor movie review: the horror of the persistence of memory [pictured]
Ambiguous, introspective, thoughtful. As weirdly uncomfortable as horror should be, and rarely is, as it examines how these movies can infect us. Niamh Algar is terrific, and deeply empathetic. [read the review | VOD US/UK]
Tweet of the week…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
No Time to Die, Daniel Craig’s final outing as James Bond
French freakshow Titane
some London Film Festival flicks
biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye
crime thriller Copshop
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
crime comedy Queenpins, starring Kristen Bell
The Green Knight
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Mark Wahlberg as Joe Bell
Old, the latest from M. Night Shyamalan
The Forever Purge
Gunpowder Milkshake
The Tomorrow War, starring Chris Pratt
(Trimmed the list a bit from last week, not because I don’t plan to review ALL THE MOVIES, but just because the list was getting unwieldy.)
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