two very different movies about first responders
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher between Monday, April 5th, and Sunday, April 11th, 2021
It’s two weeks to Oscars. I still have so many nominees to see (and review). This is my main project for the moment, though I also have so many other things I want to — need to — get to. (You heard this here first: a project dedicated to science-fiction films of the 21st century.) And I have to get cracking on the FlickFilosopher.com redesign.
Most days, I am so overwhelmed with how much I have to do that I barely know where to start.
Happy Monday to me, she said sarcastically. Unsarcastically: I hope your Monday and your week ahead is wonderful and productive.
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Apr 05–11
The Tunnel (Tunnelen) movie review: fire in the mountain
As stuffed with soap-opera clichés as its cinematic precursors, but this is nevertheless a solid and diverting rescue procedural… and it’s somehow even more shocking for how mundane its disaster is. [read the review | streaming US/Can/UK, see review for links]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Apr 06–09
A brutal French drama; a disaster thriller from Norway; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Apr 05–09
A fantastical love story; a science-fiction mystery; more… [get the full rundown]
Synchronic movie review: Benson and Moorhead would have voted for Obama twice if they could have… [pictured]
Just because a tale is science fiction doesn’t mean that plausibility and cohesion are not required. Yet we can see the narrative strings pulling along the puppet-characters, and in an ugly direction. [read the review | streaming+DVD US/Can/UK, see review for links]
‘Cultural Artifacts’ out now! (about the cover, plus a giveaway)
Yay! It’s pub day for my collection of science fiction, fantasy, and horror flash fiction. [read more]
Tweet of the week…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
same list as last week, just about *sigh*
Oscar-nominated shorts, one of my favorite things about awards season
more Oscar nominees
Cathy Yan’s Dead Pigs, maybe, finally?
doc Own the Room (from the people who gave us Science Fair)
Zack Snyder’s Justice League
Netflix’s Moxie and Thunder Force
oh, I’d really love to get to Barb & Star Go to Vista del Mar
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