weekly digest: bullet train to nowhere
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, August 1st, to Sunday, August 7th
I’m off in a few minutes to two back-to-back press screening today. I’ll be dashing from one screening room in Soho to another like it’s the beforetimes — hooray! (Of course, I will be fully masked up in the screening rooms, so that’s not quite like the beforetimes.)
Now, I just need to figure out how to get back to writing more than one review per week, like I used to in the beforetimes. I can’t be the only person who has brain fog not because of the coronavirus but because of the disruption and the anxiety of the pandemic, can I?
I know the beforetimes are not coming back, at least not anytime soon. I must figure out a way to accept that, and get my head back in the game.
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Aug 01–07
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Aug 05
Action comedy Bullet Train is new and exclusively in cinemas… and that’s about it. [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Aug 03
Action comedy Bullet Train is new and exclusively in cinemas… and that’s about it. [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Aug 02–05
Historical sci-fi horror Prey debuts on Hulu; Thai cave-rescue drama Thirteen Lives is new on Prime; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Aug 01–05
Historical sci-fi horror Prey debuts on Disney+; Thai cave-rescue drama Thirteen Lives is new on Prime; more… [get the full rundown]
Bullet Train movie review: total derailment
The cast is, on paper, terrific, but there’s nothing engaging in their bloody savagery. A misfire of a supposed action comedy, this mind-numbing mess is by turns grating, tedious, and infuriating. [read the review | US/UK cinemas]
weekend watchlist: hacking capitalism
Plus the horror stories women live, cold cops, and more. (First published July 2nd, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.) [read more]
loaded question: what’s a thing from movies (or books or TV) that you absolutely believed as a kid?
And do you still kinda sorta half believe it? [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m bingeing
Only Murders in the Building [Hulu US; Disney+ UK]: I have no idea what’s going on in this show, but I don’t care — I just love spending time with these characters
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds [Paramount+ globally, via Prime Video US/UK]: I am loving Anson Mount as the hot dad of the Enterprise — so much more appealing than Kirk the jerk
Tweet of the week…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Diana Spencer documentary The Princess
Jordan Peele’s latest foray into horror, Nope
Korean airline thriller Emergency Declaration
Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis
oddball buddy dramedy Brian and Charles
period drama Mr. Malcolm’s List
Pixar’s Lightyear
horror Dashcam
Jurassic World Dominion
trips through multiverses with Everything Everywhere All at Once and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Oscar Best Picture CODA
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, for my sins
adventure comedy The Lost City
historical revenge drama The Northman
Moonfall
time-traveling ghost story Last Night in Soho
Kenneth Branagh’s autobiographical Belfast
based-on-a-videogame action-adventure Uncharted
And more!
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