weekly digest: I finally review one of the best films of 2021 (and it’s on Netflix)
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, January 17th, to Sunday, January 23rd
I posted three reviews this week! It’s been quite a while since I’ve managed to be so productive.
Fingers crossed my mojo stays found…
—MaryAnn
PS: That Netflix film mentioned in the headline as one of the best of 2021 is Passing, of course. It’s my second best film of the year, in fact. My very best film of 2021 is The Power of the Dog, also on Netflix, which I’ll review soon.
new at flick filosopher, Jan 17–23
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Jan 17–21
Historical fantasy The King’s Daughter finally arrives in cinemas after seven years on a shelf; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Jan 20–21
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast and Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley are new exclusively in cinemas; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Jan 18–21
Iranian drama A Hero arrives on Prime; historical thriller Munich: The Edge of War is new on Netflix; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Jan 17–21
Irish drama Herself and Iranian drama A Hero arrive on demand; more… [get the full rundown]
OFCS 2021 awards nominees announced
Winners will be announced on January 24th. [read more]
The King’s Daughter movie review: a royal disaster
Ostensibly a movie in the same way that a Victorian folly is ostensibly a Japanese temple or a medieval castle. That is: not at all. Like a themed high-school prom from 1994, and an accidental horror. [read the review | cinemas US]
Munich: The Edge of War movie review: they’ll try to thwart Hitler! (#Netflix)
Dull, earnest fanfic full of halfhearted secret-agent shenanigans and a misguided rethink of Chamberlain the appeaser. Same-old rote, by-the-number World War II–ing we’ve seen countless times before. [read the review | on Netflix globally]
Passing movie review: the realities and fallacies of race (#Netflix) [pictured]
Everything about this astonishing, just-plain-satisfying film feels like a revelation. Bone-deep subversive yet universal, dripping with a quiet dread yet also beautiful and beautifully wise. [read the review | on Netflix globally]
loaded question: what historical event needs a movie devoted to it?
I’m thinking of events that haven’t already been covered on film, but if you’re aware of an unexplored angle on an event that has been seen onscreen, that’ll work, too. [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m bingeing
The Book of Boba Fett [Disney+ globally]: still kinda blah on this; strange for a huge dork like me not to feel that Star Wars love; still sticking with it, cuz see that thing about being a huge dork (and I’m also a hopeful one)
Tweet of the week…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Peter Dinklage’s Cyrano temporarily dropped from this list because its release has been pushed to late February.
The Matrix: Resurrections
Danish drama A Taste of Hunger, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
animated documentary Flee
psychological neo-noir Nightmare Alley, from Guillermo del Toro
French freak-show Titane
And more!
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