weekly digest: another slow week chez moi
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, September 18, to Sunday, September 24
It was another slow week for me at Flick Filosopher, though I did edge toward getting the Daily Stream posts to actually be daily. :-)
I don’t know why I’m having such a tough time getting my shit together. I can attest that having a reminder pop up on your phone occasionally admonishing “Get your shit together!” doesn’t work. (I have kinder reminders, too: “Be gentle with yourself,” “Believe in yourself,” and more of the like. They’re about as effective as the tough-love ones. 🤪)
One thing that might help me is the boot-the-ass realization that I’ll have to post two reviews every week from now until the end of the year in order to meet my output requirement for membership in the Online Film Critics Society, which is 50 feature-length reviews annually. (I did not meet that last year and asked for a waiver, and was given one, based on the total shitshow that last year was for me. But I really have no excuse for asking for another one.) That’s totally doable. I just have to, you know, do it.
Oh, and speaking of the Daily Streams, they’re gonna be all science-fiction films this coming week, building to a small announcement from me by week’s end. Yes, I’m giving myself more work… but sometimes having too much to do is a boot in the ass to get going, too.
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Sep 18–24
daily stream: our nightmarish impact on planet Earth
2019’s Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is on Kanopy in the US; not available anywhere in the UK. [read more]
daily stream: TFW a film is incredibly depressing but honestly really great, too
2016’s Hell or High Water is on Hulu in the US, and new on Netflix in the UK. [read more]
daily stream: stunningly accomplished space survival adventure [pictured]
2013’s Gravity is on Max in the US, Prime in the UK. [read more]
daily stream: one reason to marry your best friend…
2019’s Ordinary Love is new on Max in the US, on Prime in the UK. [read more]
daily stream: just another Scorsese masterpiece
2006’s The Departed leaves US Netflix soon; on Prime and Apple TV in the UK. [read more]
loaded question: what’s your dream actor/director pairing, and what kind of movie would they make?
I’m a big fan of Wes Anderson’s brand of humor, and I love the comic style Daniel Craig has embraced as Benoit Blanc. It would be wonderful to see what kind of magic they’d whip up together onscreen. [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m watching and bingeing
Ted Lasso S3 [Apple TV+ globally]: finally finished for real; sobbed a bit at the end; very sorry to see Ted go and I’m gonna miss all these characters terribly
Invasion S2 [Apple TV+ globally]: calling it: this show is a snoozefest…
Good Omens S2 [Prime US, UK, and globally]: Nazi zombies and a queer Jane Austen–esque ball in a bookshop? love it!
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Gareth Edwards’s sci-fi epic The Creator
Canadian immigrant drama Brother
Dumb Money
Kenneth Branagh’s latest Poirot, A Haunting in Venice
based-on-a-true-videogame Gran Turismo
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, maybe?
mockumentary Theater Camp
gay romance Passages
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!
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