in which we enter the season of spice... Arrakis spice
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, October 25th, to Sunday, October 31st
Suddenly, it’s the most wonderful time of the year… or, at least, my favorite time of year, the weeks between Halloween and Christmas. It’s gonna be another strange autumn of minimal festivity, I fear, this second pandemic holiday season, but I’m gonna try to milk the stay-at-home-and-stay-safe part of it as much as I can… and as much as I can share with you.
I’m gonna be guesting on a couple of podcasts soon — not of seasonal movies, but on one we’ll be discussing a movie that will tie in to a new section I’ve been planning to add to Flick Filosopher for a while now. (So this prompts me to finally get my ass in gear on that!) And I’m going to launch a special festive project that will be for Substack (and Patreon) subscribers only.
More details on all this soon!
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Oct 25–31
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Oct 27–29
Time-tripping mystery Last Night in Soho and 1920s African-American drama Passing are exclusively in cinemas… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Oct 29
Time-tripping mystery Last Night in Soho and 1920s African-American drama Passing are exclusively in cinemas… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Oct 25–27
Grim Icelandic fairy tale Lamb lands on premium VOD; The Suicide Squad is new on DVD; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Oct 25–29
Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark arrives on premium VOD; more… [get the full rundown]
loaded question: do you like scary movies?
For me, I don’t like most of the movies Hollywood considers scary — such as most of what is labeled “horror” — primarily because I simply don’t find that sort of thing scary. [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
curated: Oscar Isaac and Timothée Chalamet on playing father and son
I don’t often discuss, in my reviews, actors’ performances, because I’m often aiming to get at the larger cultural impact of movies, but I am fascinated by actors’ craft… [read more]
Dune movie review: dreams of alien worlds (#HBOMax)
Monumental. Villeneuve tells a familiar story with uncommon elegance and pensiveness, even dreaminess, on a breathtaking scale. A stunningly gorgeous, supremely dignified movie about ugly things. [read the review | in cinemas pretty much globally; also streaming on HBO Max in the US]
what I’m bingeing
Bridgerton [Netflix globally]: Finished Season 1! I absolutely adore how it raises to the text what is only subtext — if very obvious subtext — in Jane Austen’s work. I’m not sure if it’s a fantasy too far that if a white British king married a woman who was Black that that would make racism disappear… but it’s a really nice fantasy. Most importantly: my god, Regé-Jean Page is gorgeous.
Only Murders in the Building [Hulu US; Disney+ UK]: Finished Season 1! It falters just a little when it indulges in earnestness, but fortunately that’s rare, and it’s mostly snarky and snide and very funny. Steve Martin and Martin Short are delightful, as you would imagine, and so is Selena Gomez, which I’m not sure I expected as much.
Nine Perfect Strangers [Hulu US; Prime UK]: didn’t watch any more this week, so still four episodes in…
(I think I must catch up on Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor Who so I can jump into the new series that began last night…)
Tweet of the week…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Last Night in Soho, from Edgar Wright
Marvel’s Eternals
grim Icelandic fairy tale Lamb
Wes Anderson’s latest, The French Dispatch
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
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