weekly digest: bingeing London Film Festival
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, October 2, to Sunday, October 8
London Film Festival is on! In previous years (prepandemic) I would make myself crazy doing three or four films a day, over the course of a full month. (Press screenings used to start two and a half weeks before the week and a half of the public fest. This year that was reduced to just a week and a half pre-fest.) I don’t have the stamina for that this year, and I’ve got some serious FOMO about the movies I haven’t gotten to… but it’s still been something like the Before Times: between last Monday and yesterday I saw 10 films (a few weren’t part of LFF). That’s more than I’ve done in ages.
I’m very tired, but also happy to have a head full of movies again. Now I must write some reviews!
—MaryAnn
PS: The Daily Streams return this week, and it’ll be all scary stuff for spooky season through the end of October.
new at flick filosopher, Oct 02–08
new Flick Filosopher strand: 21st-century science fiction
I’ve been teasing this for a while, and it’s finally here: a new section at Flick Filosopher examining science fiction films of the 21st century and what the genre has to say about humanity now that we’re living in science-fictional times. [read more]
The Creator movie review: meat versus metal [pictured]
Looks great, but the plot falls apart if you poke it and makes no attempt to grapple with AI’s potential. Instead it renders its robot people as a racialized Other in a clunky metaphor for bigotry. [read the review | cinemas US/UK]
loaded question: what young actor (of any gender) working today could be the next great action star?
I honestly cannot think of anyone who could carry on the tradition of the 80s stars. The babies of the current crop of whom we might consider up-and-coming action stars are not that young… [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m watching and bingeing
Invasion S2 [Apple TV+ globally]: didn’t get back to this last week — the lack of urgency I feel about this show is just plain sad
Good Omens S2 [Prime US, UK, and globally]: finished, and what a heartbreaking ending!
Only Murders in the Building S3 [Hulu US, Disney+ UK]: loves me some cozy murder, and with the additions of Paul Rudd and Meryl Streep, this show just gets better and better
Loki S2 [Disney+ globally]: the time travel and the production design alone make this a delight, but throw in Tom Hiddleston and now Ke Huy Quan and I’m a very happy geek indeed
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
romantic drama Cat Person, based on the viral short story
Martin Scorsese’s historical crime epic Killers of the Flower Moon
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
Barbie
Meg 2: The Trench
Joy Ride
tween classic onscreen Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
And more!
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