weekly digest: an actual review! and a bit more!
the little bit that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, January 16, to Sunday, January 22
Yay! I wrote a review this week! And did a streaming recommendation every day.
I wish this didn’t feel like quite the triumph that it does, but here we are.
Striving to be even more triumphant this week…
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Jan 16–22
#DailyStream weekly roundup [pictured]
The #DailyStream is a once-per-day, single-movie-only streaming recommendation that appears both at my Substack and Patreon, and in truncated forms across my social media. They are free for everyone. [read more]
A Man Called Otto movie review: a rare misfire for Tom Hanks
With cowardly mildness, this white-bread mush misuses its star’s likability. Tom Hanks trying to be grumpy yet endearing has the opposite impact. He’s somehow less endearing than he’s been before. [read the review | cinemas US/UK]
Weekend Watchlist is now the #DailyStream
And they’re free for everyone! [read more]
AWFJ 2022 EDA Awards winners announced
The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Women Talking tie for the most awards, at four apiece. [read more]
loaded question: what video game would you like to see adapted for film or TV?
Whom would you cast in major roles, and whom would you like to see direct it or act as showrunner? [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m bingeing
Ted Lasso [AppleTV+ globally]: only two more episodes to go until no more Ted 😢 (at least till Season 3 hits sometime this spring); I’m really loving Sarah Niles as the sports shrink (she was great in a small part in The Sandman, too)
Old Enough! [Netflix globally]: yay, there’s more of the Japanese docu series about very small children sent on neighbor errands; I love this so much
Tweet of the week…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Gerard Butler’s Plane crash
dramatic thriller Alice, Darling, starring Anna Kendrick
#MeToo dramas She Said and Women Talking
detective Benoit Blanc’s return in Glass Onion
Harry & Meghan: Vol II on Netflix
indie horror Skinamarink
And more!
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