weekly digest: back into the swing of things
weekly digest: back into the swing of things
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, Oct 28, to Sunday, Nov 3
Thank you to everyone who attended the Strong Women - Strange Worlds Zoom on Friday! (Those of you who signed up for a giveaway, I’ll be in touch later this week.) It was so much fun, and it reminded me that I need to get back to my fiction writing.
And since I’m genuinely starting to feel more like myself for the first time in a long time, and feel my movie-reviewing mojo coming back, maybe I’ll actually be able to make fiction happen too!
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Oct 28–Nov 03
Blitz movie review: the unraveling of propaganda [pictured]
Picaresque childhood misadventures sketch vibrant WWII London. A movie of brutal randomness, feral intensity, and ferocious intimacy. Wildly human, artistically masterful, and completely magnificent. [read the review | cinema US/UK; Apple TV+ globally Nov 22]
curated cinema: what it means to kill
2014’s Blue Ruin is streaming on Prime and Tubi in the US; not streaming in the UK (sorry). [read more]
curated cinema: a Method to the bloodsucking madness
2000’s Shadow of the Vampire is on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic. [read more]
what I’m watching and bingeing
Silo S02 (Apple TV+ globally): S02E01 debuts on Nov 15, but I’ve been lucky enough to be able to binge right through to E09 (of 10) thanks to Apple TV’s press platform. I absolutely adored the first season (I’ve watched it twice), so I’ll just say: if you love smart science fiction with great worldbuilding, characters to adore (or loathe, as appropriate), and incredibly suspenseful cliffhangers (even if you’ve read the books!), do not miss this show. Catch up with season one now and get ready for more.
Only Murders in the Building S04 (Hulu US, Disney+ UK): I’m only a couple episodes into S04, but I delighted to see that this show keeps finding fresh ways to keep us engaged. It has, wonderfully, not run out of steam yet.
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci in papal procedural Conclave
Donald Trump’s villain origin story, The Apprentice
Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door
Sebastian Stan in A Different Man
body horror The Substance, starring Demi Moore
Jesse Eisenberg’s dramedy A Real Pain
based-on-a-videogame Borderlands
political documentary War Game
folk horror Starve Acre
M. Night Shyamalan’s latest, Trap
return of the facehuggers in Alien: Romulus
a bunch of London Film Festival reviews
and a lot more.
I have not forgotten about all the other reviews I’ve been promising here, but I’m gonna keep the list elsewhere for now so I stop torturing you…
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