weekly digest: a couple of reviews, a couple of streaming recs
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, June 9, to Sunday, June 15 (with one earlier straggler)
I promised the Weekly Digest would definitely be weekly again. Did that happen? No. *sigh* Am I resolved to make that happen? Yes.
But I did get back to a few Curated Cinema streaming recommendations! More of those, and more reviews, coming up.
—MaryAnn
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new at flick filosopher, Jun 09–15
(with one earlier straggler)
curated cinema: the madness and genius of Brian Wilson
2015’s Love & Mercy is on Prime and Apple TV+ on both sides of the Atlantic. [read more]
curated cinema: how societies fall
2010’s Agora is on Prime in the US; DVD only in the UK. [read more]
Black Bag movie review: committed to the cloak-and-dagger
Smart, sophisticated spy-versus-spy nonsense makes for a perfect little cinematic contraption. Tense and tricksy, but much more deliciously, these are espionage mind games with a sexy screwball vibe. [read the review | VOD/DVD US/UK]
Fountain of Youth movie review: raiders of the lost art [preview]
Hollywood has lost the ability to buckle swash. Guy Ritchie, shamelessly stealing from Indiana Jones, gives us a charmless treasure hunt that feels honed by corporate focus groups and cinematic SEO. [read the review | Apple TV+ globally]
what I’m watching and bingeing
Doctor Who S02 of Ncuti Gatwa’s reign (Disney+ US; BBC iPlayer UK): finished! there’s so much meta reference and in jokes and callbacks to the past that the show feels like it’s got its head up its own ass, and that ending did nothing to alleviate that feeling in me…
Silo S01/S02 (Apple TV+ globally): because our real world isn’t bleak and apocalyptic enough, I figured I’d give this another go, and binged it all again (20 episodes) over the course of two weeks or so; if you’re missing Rebecca Ferguson in the final Mission: Impossible movie, check her out here: she’s brilliant
The Handmaid’s Tale S06 (Hulu US; Prime UK): vive la résistance! here in the UK we’re a few weeks behind the US so I still have a few episodes to go; really hoping the commanders get everything they deserve, and more…
Veep (Max, Prime, Apple TV US; Now, Prime, Apple TV UK): haven’t gotten back to this in a while but hoping to soon…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Paramount+ [via Prime] US, Netflix and Paramount+ [via Prime] UK): I’m well into S03 now; this show has held up brilliantly…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
crime comedies Deep Cover and Sew Torn
zombie horror 28 Years Later
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
French sibling drama The Marching Band
Wes Anderson’s latest confection, The Phoenician Scheme
documentary Deaf President Now!
Cate Blanchett as a nun in historical drama The New Boy
science fiction satire Mickey 17
science fiction drama Companion
Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci in papal procedural Conclave (finally)
and a lot more.
I have not forgotten about all the other reviews I’ve been promising here, but I’m keeping the list elsewhere for now so I stop torturing you…
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