weekly digest: another slow week for me...
the very little that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, November 13, to Sunday, November 19
It was another slow week for me as I continue to grapple with finding the motivation I need to write.
I’m working on myself, and determined to make this week a better one.
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Nov 13–19
daily stream: if you give a mouse a global entertainment empire…
1928’s “Steamboat Willie” is streaming globally on Disney+. [read more]
daily stream: desperate women, desperate measures
2008’s Frozen River is on Hulu in the US, BFI Player in the UK. [read more]
daily stream: don’t tell Grandma she’s dying? [pictured]
2019’s The Farewell is new on Netflix in the US, on Prime in the UK. [read more]
loaded question: do you remember how you filled your time before smartphones?
Was it a horrible exercise in stewing, sulking, or despairing nothingness? [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m watching and bingeing
The X-Files [Hulu US/Disney+ UK]: this has become perfect comfort television for me at the moment: I don’t have to think about it, I can just let it wash over me…
classic Doctor Who [BBC iPlayer UK]: didn’t watch any more this past week
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters [Apple TV+ globally]: the first two episodes are now available, and I will definitely be back for more this week and beyond as a survivor of the Golden Gate Bridge attack in 2014’s Godzilla investigates her father’s involvement in the mysterious organization Monarch; also features Kurt Russell and his real-life son, Wyatt Russell, playing the same character decades apart, which is extremely cool
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
thriller The Royal Hotel
Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon
Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn
Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore in May December
Priscilla’s problematic romance with Elvis
teen comedy Bottoms
Barbie, finally, for real, promise
the latest MCU entry, The Marvels
Nicolas Cage in weird fantasy Dream Scenario
murder mystery Anatomy of a Fall
lots of London Film Festival coverage
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
Meg 2: The Trench
Joy Ride
tween classic onscreen Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
And more!
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