weekly digest: a review, some streaming recs, wish it was more...
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, August 14, to Sunday, August 20
Still trying to kick myself back into gear. Really, really, trying… *sigh*
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Aug 14–20
daily stream: crime as just another form of capitalism
2020’s The Gentlemen is on Prime in the US, Netflix in the UK. [read more]
daily stream: when you hit the gym and the gym hits back
2015’s Results is streaming on Kanopy in the US, Prime in the UK. [read more]
daily stream: maybe Mars *is* the kind of place to raise your kids…
2020’s Proxima is on Kanopy in the US, BFI Player in the UK. [read more]
Paris Memories (Revoir Paris) movie review: healing after horror [pictured]
A deeply humane, delicately constructed journey through trauma and recovery that cuts like a knife and soothes like a hug, somehow, miraculously, managing both bundles of feeling at the same time. [read the review | VOD+DVD US/cinemas UK]
loaded question: what death scene from a movie or TV show haunts you?
My pick is from the early 1990s British crime drama series Cracker, in which Robbie Coltrane played a criminal psychologist. The character whose death haunts me is [spoiler]… [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m watching and bingeing
Ted Lasso S3 [Apple TV+ globally]: didn’t get back to this last week
Invasion [Apple TV+ globally]: watched the first three S01 episodes of this alien-invasion sci-fi drama, and boy, it is off to a very slow start; the humans it focuses on as chaos erupts are honestly not that interesting so far…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
based-on-a-true-videogame Gran Turismo
British indie Scrapper
underwater thriller The Dive
alien-contact dramedy Jules
documentary Kokomo City
Barbie
Oppenheimer
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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