weekly digest: are these weekly digests useful/valuable/interesting to you?
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, October 30, to Sunday, November 5
Oh, I didn’t post any reviews this past week. I won’t apologize for that because I’ve been reprimanded for doing so before 🙃. But anyway, that’s because I’m still struggling with my stupid brain, and maybe I’ll write about that again soon.
I can promise that there will definitely be reviews this week.
I do want to ask whether these Weekly Digest emails are still useful, valuable, and/or interesting to those of you actually reading them. This regular roundup of what I’ve posted at FlickFilosopher.com long predates Substack: it started as a daily digest sent via MailChimp, more than a decade ago, then morphed into a weekly digest as the way we all use the Internet changed. And now the way we use the Internet is undergoing radical change again.
I have absolutely no problem with continuing the Weekly Digest if you all are happy with it. But I wonder whether regular notification of new reviews and other stuff, like the weekly Loaded Question — which I send out here on Substack and also on my Patreon, available on both services for free — makes a weekly roundup redundant. The stuff that is unique to the Weekly Digests, like the what-I’m-bingeing stuff, could find a home elsewhere, like maybe a regular weekly post of its own.
Eager to hear your thoughts on this…
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Oct 30–Nov 05
daily stream: remember, remember the fifth of November…
2006’s V for Vendetta is on Prime and Max in the US, Prime and Apple TV in the UK. [read more]
daily stream: modern noir with Jason Statham and his best kind of costar
2012’s Safe is on Netflix on both sides of the Atlantic; stream on UK Prime for 11 more days. [read more]
daily stream: drop out, tune in (the degree program)
2006’s Accepted leaves US Netflix soon; on Prime and Apple TV in the UK. [read more]
did you enjoy the Daily Screams? should I do more themed Daily Stream recommendations?
Plus: how to get the Daily Streams (and other stuff from me) in your email in-box… [read more]
daily scream: how to fill the gaping hole inside now that Halloween is over [pictured]
1993’s The Nightmare Before Christmas is on Disney+ on both sides of the Atlantic (and a few other services, too). [read more]
loaded question: what’s the scariest scene ever in a movie that isn’t considered horror?
My pick: the alien-examination scene in 1993’s UFO-abduction flick Fire in the Sky, in which D.B. Sweeney’s abductee is treated by ET doctors like the biological specimen he is to them. [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
daily scream: the dread of a future you can’t see
2001’s Donnie Darko is on Kanopy in the US, Curzon Home Cinema in the UK (and lots of other services). [read more]
what I’m watching and bingeing
The X-Files [Hulu US/Disney+ UK]: yes, the old 1990s series; just discovered this is easily bingeable, so I’m gonna binge it; tipped my toe in with the 1993 pilot, and I’m hooked and obsessed all over again
classic Doctor Who [BBC iPlayer UK]: all the original Doctor Who episodes (well, most of what’s extant, anyway) just landed on iPlayer, the BBC’s on-demand service, and I honestly might just lock myself away in my room from now through Christmas and binge it all; started last night with a rewatch of the Tom Baker serial “The Androids of Tara,” which I didn’t quite finish but had enormous fun with till I had to stop for outside reasons that had nothing to do with any desire to give up on it; big goofy fun, and a huge reminder of why I fell in love with the show in the first place
Only Murders in the Building S3 [Hulu US, Disney+ UK]: finished! and just when I thought I was done (no, I really didn’t), they end on yet another cliffhanger murder again, so I guess I’ll be back for S4
Loki S2 [Disney+ globally]: haven’t gotten to the latest episode yet
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
thriller The Royal Hotel
Priscilla’s problematic romance with Elvis
teen comedy Bottoms
Barbie, finally, for real, promise
animated chaos Trolls Band Together
the latest MCU entry, The Marvels, maybe, if I feel like there’s anything more to say about the MCU
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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I read each individual post as it comes, so I usually skim the roundups. I do like the what you’re watching section, though!
Like Jess, I also read every post via substack as it goes up (well, I say as it goes up, but I'm currently playing catch up), so I tend to skim the digest/skip to the section unique to those emails.