weekly digest: a review (or two)
the very little that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, November 24, to Sunday, November 30 (and one earlier straggler)
In my last “Weekly” (🙄) Digest — in October (🙄) — I wrote: “Feels good to be back!”
Obviously I was not back.
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I hate how my brain keeps defying me, keeps slacking off with a “nuh-uh” or a “pfft” every time I sit it down and give it what I hope will be a pep talk. But the scolding will continue until it complies and gets itself into gear again.
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—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Nov 24–30
Wake Up Dead Man movie review: knives way the hell out (London Film Festival 2025) [pictured]
Rian Johnson’s third outing with droll detective Benoit Blanc, perhaps the most memorable original new movie character in decades, is a grimly funny gothic romp through modern hot-button Americana. [read my review | cinemas US/UK now; on Netflix globally Dec 12]
Bugonia movie review: worst contact (London Film Festival 2025)
Grimly hilarious, this mashup of black comedy, social commentary, suspense, and horror is sharp and stinging, with a haunting gut punch of a finale… and it’s Yorgos Lanthimos’s most accessible film yet. [read my review | cinemas US/UK; premium VOD US now, UK Dec 1]
what I’m watching and bingeing
Pluribus (Apple TV globally): Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan’s new series is thrillingly horrific and weirdly funny: is its postapocalyptic world a utopia, or a nightmare? absolutely loving this so far…
Only Murders in the Building S05 (Hulu US; Disney+ UK): finished! I adore how the show leaned way into and goofily embraced just how ridiculous it has gotten; can’t wait to see where next season takes it
New Girl (Hulu, Peacock US; Disney+ UK): haven’t gone back to this in a bit but do plan to finish…
Alien: Earth (Disney+ globally): finished Season 1, purely because I can be a stubborn completist, but it never gripped me
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Paramount+ [via Prime] US, Netflix and Paramount+ [via Prime] UK): still rewatching (seasons used to be so jam-packed with episodes!), and 30 years later, the politics of this show remain radical
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
actor Harris Dickinson’s directorial debut, Urchin
dystopian family drama Anniversary
sci-fi adventure Predator: Badlands
holiday rom-com Tinsel Town
Hamnet, starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal
Brazilian historical thriller The Secret Agent
Ethan Hawke as songwriter Lorenz Hart in Blue Moon
Emma Thompson in Dead of Winter
EMS black comedy Code 3
indie dramedy The Baltimorons
more London Film Festival flicks
and a lot more.
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