weekly digest: a bit of unintended “time travel”
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, September 25, to Sunday, October 1
Ack! The science fiction–related announcement I promised in last week’s Weekly Digest has been delayed till tomorrow. I’d planned to get to that over this past weekend, but I was so wiped out from a busy week of London Film Festival pre-fest press screenings, and other films as well, that my brain was fried. And then today started off with a super-early LFF screening, and then another, and then a transit nightmare getting home. But I’m not doing any screenings tomorrow, so be on the lookout for stuff coming then!
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Sep 25–Oct 01
daily stream: a robot who wants to be a real boy
2001’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence is on Paramount+ on both sides of the Atlantic. [read more]
daily stream: TFW the ETs are just kinda annoying and in the way
2009’s District 9 is on Max in the US, Netflix in the UK… [read more]
daily stream: is this the way the world ends?
2006’s Children of Men leaves UK iPlayer on October 4th; on Prime in the US. [read more]
daily stream: a girl and her alien robot car
2018’s Bumblebee leaves UK Prime very soon; on Paramount+ in the US. [read more]
Brother movie review: who gets away with being reckless [pictured]
A pall of dread, of terrible suspense, hangs over this powerfully empathetic drama about what it means to be a Black man navigating a racist world. Beautifully performed and structurally intriguing. [read the review | VOD US, cinemas+VOD UK]
daily stream: discovering humanity in the face of aliens
2016’s Arrival is new on US Netflix, but leaves UK Netflix at the end of September. [read more]
daily stream: ironically, the best videogame movie ever
2014’s Edge of Tomorrow is new on Netflix in the UK, on Max in the US. [read more]
loaded question: who’s your favorite film director, and why?
This one is a no-brainer for me: Steven Spielberg. And that’s because his Raiders of the Lost Ark is the movie that made me fall in love with movies. [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m watching and bingeing
Invasion S2 [Apple TV+ globally]: didn’t get back to this last week
Good Omens S2 [Prime US, UK, and globally]: didn’t get back to this last week
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Gareth Edwards’s sci-fi epic The Creator
lots of London Film Festival coverage
Dumb Money
Kenneth Branagh’s latest Poirot, A Haunting in Venice
based-on-a-true-videogame Gran Turismo
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, maybe?
mockumentary Theater Camp
gay romance Passages
alien-contact dramedy Jules
documentary Kokomo City
Barbie
Meg 2: The Trench
Joy Ride
tween classic onscreen Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
And more!
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