weekly digest: a movie about a girl, and a girl (me!) about movies

everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, August 28, to Sunday, September 3

I can’t believe it’s September already. This year is just disappearing, and I feel like I missed so much of it being caught up in my own personal bullshit.

But cooler weather and the autumn movies season will reinvigorate me. I’ve gotten accredited for London Film Festival and am very much looking forward to the film orgy that always is. (I will be masked up in all in-person screenings, of course!) I’m working on getting my mobility back and getting back into shape after many months of extremely limited physical activity.

It’s almost record-breakingly hot in London today — 84 degrees Fahrenheit! — but pumpkin spice lattes and Oscar bait are just around the corner…

—MaryAnn

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new at flick filosopher, Aug 28–Sep 03

more bad news: RIP my uncle, John Benton-Harris

• My year of hell continues… [read more]

daily stream: tastes like chicken…

• 2000’s Chicken Run is on Prime in the US, and streaming on Prime (leaving soon!) and Disney+ in the UK. [read more]

daily stream: hey, Adrian!

• 1976’s Rocky is streaming on Prime in the US and Netflix in the UK, but leaves both services at the end of September. [read more]

daily stream: in case you need more dramatic Robert Downey Jr., post ‘Oppenheimer’

• 2014’s The Judge is available to rent or buy on Prime and Apple TV on both sides of the Atlantic. [read more]

daily stream: girls just wanna slay (emotional) monsters

• 2018’s I Kill Giants is on Prime in the US, Netflix in the UK. [read more]

Scrapper movie review: girlhood interrupted [pictured]

• A singular portrait of a girl full of verve and personality. An astonishing feature debut from Charlotte Regan, with a film as cheeky and imaginative, as pleasantly messy and chaotic, as its heroine. [read the review | cinemas US/UK]

loaded question: what bit of pop culture (movies, TV, books, comics, games, whatever) best captures the feeling of being disconnected with the larger world?

• I’m thinking about Cory Doctorow’s 2004 novel Eastern Standard Tribe, which speaks to me as an American ex-pat (from the US Eastern time zone) who still has not fully settled into UK time… [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]

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what I’m watching and bingeing

• Ted Lasso S3 [Apple TV+ globally]: still chugging through this, slowly, and still loving it

• Invasion S2 [Apple TV+ globally]: they’re really going all in with the telepathic connection stuff, huh? maybe someday Earth will be invaded by creatures with whom not a single soul on the planet is strangely connected with…

• Good Omens S2 [Prime US, UK, and globally]: yay, more time to spend with Crowley and Aziraphale! the chemistry between David Tennant and Michael Sheen is among the most delicious, most palpable I’ve ever seen on any screen, big or small; a sheer delight

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coming up at Flick Filosopher…

• based-on-a-true-videogame Gran Turismo

• My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, maybe?

• mockumentary Theater Camp

• gay romance Passages

• underwater thriller The Dive

• 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, including reviews of many of the other films I’ve been promising since forever, I’m sorry. :-(

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