weekly digest: I hated, hated, hated this movie...
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, June 6th, to Sunday, June 12th
Last week I explained why I am so very tired of huge press screenings.
This week I will be going to one anyway: for Elvis.
I hope it is as absolutely bonkers as it looks.
Send help…
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Jun 06–12
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Jun 10
Dinosaur adventure Jurassic World Dominion is new and exclusively in cinemas; sci-fi musical Neptune Frost expands… [read more]
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Jun 10
Dinosaur adventure Jurassic World Dominion is new and exclusively in cinemas, and that’s about it… [read more]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Jun 07
Multiverse action comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once and TV spinoff historical dramedy Downton Abbey: A New Era arrive on premium VOD; more… [read more]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Jun 05–10
Nic Cage meta comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent and Irish-language wonder The Quiet Girl arrive on premium VOD; more… [read more]
Men movie review: if it walks like misogyny and squawks like misogyny…
A “critique” of misogyny that is outright misogynist, even before it goes down a gorefest rabbit hole of infuriating contempt for women. What the hell is going on with this would-be-mythic mishmash? [read the review | cinemas US/UK]
weekend watchlist: a timely cure for collective cultural amnesia
Plus drone warfare, murder most genteel, and more. (First published May 7th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.) [read more]
loaded question: is fandom out of control?
And perhaps more pertinently, if it is, how do we fix it? [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m bingeing
Ms Marvel [Disney+ globally]: totally charming debut episode; I love that we’re delving into Avengers fandom, because of course that would be a huge thing in this world…
Obi-Wan Kenobi [Disney+ globally]: too many callbacks are threatening to turn this into nothing but a nostalgia-fest, and I hope that does not continue, but I was riveted by the Reva and Leia scene (you know the one)…
Tweet of the week…
I didn’t think it was possible to love John Cena more than I already do. I was wrong.
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Emma Thompson in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Pixar’s Lightyear
horror Dashcam
Jurassic World Dominion
Memory, the latest Liam Neeson action thingy
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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