weekly (and a bit) digest: the struggle continues...
the little bit that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, Feb 17, to Sunday, Mar 09
Took me longer than I wanted to get out a couple more reviews for you, but here they are (links below, that is).
Knee surgery is Thursday! I hope to feel like an actual human being again soon.
In other stuff going on behind the scenes, you’ll see a link to a sample sponsored post in the new-stuff listing below. It leads to a page demonstrating what sponsored content (which I am working to secure) will look like at Flick Filosopher. Any sponsored posts will always be very clearly labeled so that there is no doubt whatsoever that the content is paid for.
I also want to be able to show potential sponsors what they’ll get for their sponsorship. So you’ll also notice links to this sample sponsored post on the All Recent Posts page as well as on the home page, with a little blurb and image at the bottom of the righthand sidebar on most other pages on the site.
I really could use sponsorship money, but I’m also determined not to let cheap sponsored junk take over the site. Which is probably why I haven’t had any takers yet!
Hopefully that will change. 🤞 But I will not lower my standards for the site to make that happen.
—MaryAnn
PS: I will never accept what the SEO people call “link placements,” which is a link within content I’ve previously written and posted, such as reviews, that someone has paid for me to insert there. Any and all links you see in my reviews and in other posts have been chosen by me because I think they add to whatever I’ve written. Occasionally those are affiliate links, to Amazon or Apple, for which I have not been paid but which may earn me an affiliate fee from either company if you purchase something as as result of clicking on that link. The only companies I earn affiliate fees from are Apple and Amazon, and my affiliation is noted in many places on the site that I believe are very obvious. I try to be completely upfront and transparent about what I’m doing with the site.
new at flick filosopher, Feb 17–Mar 09
Superboys of Malegaon movie review: making movies with his friends
Gentle, charming dramedy about pals in middle-of-nowhere India making amateur movies. The giddy glee in this winsome portrait of geeky passion and enduring friendship is all-around infectious. [read the review | cinemas US/UK]
my picks for tonight’s 97th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2024’s films) (winners indicated)
I correctly guessed 12 out of the 23 categories, which is exactly as well as I did last year. (Five of my “should win”s did win!) At least I’m consistent. [read more]
When I’m Ready movie review: it’s the end of the world, and you’d barely know it [pictured]
Pretty young people are sad about the end of everything, but there’s no urgency and little emotional authenticity to any of it. We’ve seen this before, pulled off with far more affecting feeling. [read the review | VOD US]
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what I’m watching and bingeing
The Pitt (Max US; not yet streaming UK): new medical drama from ER vets John Wells (producer) and Noah Wyle (producer and star) is an absolutely brilliant near–real time look at a fast-paced hospital emergency room in Pittsburgh; each one-hour episode represents one hour in a single shift, and it’s smartly written, beautifully performed, and totally gripping
Veep (Max, Prime, Apple TV US; Now, Prime, Apple TV UK): I can’t believe I’ve never seen this show before, especially since I love Armando Iannucci’s The Thick of It; incredible writing in this anti–West Wing, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a comedy all-timer in the role; I’ve only just started and still have lots to go, yay!
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Paramount+ [via Prime] US, Netflix and Paramount+ [via Prime] UK): I’m well into S02, and I’ve to hit the delicious point where the writers were starting to figure out the banger of a concept they had on their hands and the actors were getting to sink their teeth into ever-meatier characters…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
science fiction satire Mickey 17
science fiction drama Companion
writer-director Edward Burns’s latest, Millers in Marriage
the Oscar-nominated short films (maybe?)
journalism drama September 5
action thriller Cleaner, starring Daisy Ridley and Clive Owen
Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl
the anime take on Tolkien that is The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Timothée Chalamet — he sings! — as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown
Gladiator II: Electric Boogaloo
Andrea Arnold’s Bird
Cillian Murphy in Small Things Like These, a Movie for the Resistance
Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci in papal procedural Conclave
Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door
Sebastian Stan in A Different Man
body horror The Substance, starring Demi Moore
Jesse Eisenberg’s dramedy A Real Pain
based-on-a-videogame Borderlands
political documentary War Game
folk horror Starve Acre
M. Night Shyamalan’s latest, Trap
return of the facehuggers in Alien: Romulus
and a lot more.
I have not forgotten about all the other reviews I’ve been promising here, but I’m gonna keep the list elsewhere for now so I stop torturing you…
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