weekly digest: daily streams now also getting posted to Flick Filosopher

everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, March 27, to Sunday, Apr 2

Apr 03, 2023

So I’m now posting the Daily Stream posts to FlickFilosopher.com. I probably should have been doing this since I started this feature (and if I can find the time, I will go back and add the previous Daily Streams to my site). If nothing else, I’ll have that content saved on my own site (and my own multiply-backed-up downloads) when Substack and Patreon inevitably disappear, as they almost certain will at some point. 🙄

In more personal news, I had my surgical consultation last week for my fucked hip. The good news is that the surgeon has fast-tracked me for surgery, though that still means a further wait of several months because of the dire state of the NHS at the moment. The bad news is that I got fast-tracked because my hip is in such awful shape. As I’ve been saying for years, everything is awful.

I also today had a medical appointment for my eyes, my first eye exam in a little over two years, and everything is fine except for the usual age-related deterioration. Decay has been nothing other than as expected there — ie, nothing to be particularly worried about — but that still means I had to fork over a small fortune for new glasses.

All this effort and expense just to stay in the same place.

Getting old sucks. It’s better than the alternative (that is, not getting older, because you’re dead), but it’s a whole lotta no fun. Do not recommend.

Take the best care of yourself that you can. Although nothing I’m dealing with now really could have been prevented anyway. Crap.

—MaryAnn

new at flick filosopher, Mar 27–Apr 02

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves movie review: dudgeon and draggin’

A high-fantasy action comedy of tedious slapstick and obvious punchlines you scry the instant a wannabe medieval wag opens their mouth. It’s all borderline incoherent, sketched in cheap-looking CGI. [read the review | cinemas US/UK]

daily stream: a pandemic perfect cinematic storm

2021’s A Quiet Place: Part II leaves US Prime soon, and is new on UK Netflix. [read more]

daily stream: an inspiring portrait of a trans girl asking only to be herself

2020’s Little Girl is on Kanopy in the US, Curzon Home Cinema in the UK, and Mubi on both sides of the Atlantic. [read more]

daily stream: recovering from childhood, with a buddy [pictured]

2014’s The Skeleton Twins is on Kanopy and Prime in the US, on Prime and Apple TV in the UK. [read more]

daily stream: a house that love builds (with a lot of help)

2020’s Herself is on Prime in the US, on Curzon Home Cinema in the UK. [read more]

I’m trying to fix the issue of missing comments

tl;dr: Disqus sucks. Never use it. [read more]

daily stream: how watching affects the watchers

2007’s The Lives of Others is on Mubi in the US, on Sky Store in the UK. [read more]

daily stream: whistleblowing in a warmongering dystopia (a true story)

2019’s Official Secrets is on Netflix and Kanopy in the US, on BBC iPlayer in the UK. [read more]

loaded question: what’s something that, as a film nerd, you’re embarrassed to admit?

My embarrassing admission is that I have never owned a blu-ray player. [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]

I was extremely absent last week, sorry about that…

I had a terrible week last week, which made it even more difficult than it has been lately for me to focus on anything productive. It’s all about the spoons… [read more]

what I’m bingeing

The Mandalorian [Disney+ globally]: just happy to be exploring the Star Wars galaxy…
Old Enough! [Netflix globally]: didn’t get back to this last week
Picard [Paramount+ US (via Prime)/Prime UK]: this show now has me contemplating my early-career attempts to be a screenwriter…