weekly digest: I posted two reviews, hallelujah
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, February 19, to Sunday, February 25
I finished — and posted! — two reviews, and that felt so great.
Gotta try to keep this momentum going.
I think I feel something brewing in my brain about the mental-health journey I’ve been on (which has been a huge factor in my seeming inability to get anything done). Stay tuned…
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Feb 19–25
Madame Web movie review: absurdly tangled
A travesty of corporate cynicism. Its desperation to ride Spider-Man’s coattails is pathetic, but its convoluted, coincidence-laden nonsense is duller than you’d imagine: it’s not even so bad it’s fun. [read the review | cinemas US/UK]
Stopmotion movie review: bleed for your art
Unusually psychologically astute and utterly unnerving as it digs into the enigmas and anxieties of artistic creation. Style is substance in this challenge to the very concept of an “animated movie.” [read the review | cinemas US]
loaded question: what location, specific or general, inevitably makes you think of a line of movie dialogue? [pictured]
Like you’re constitutionally incapable of not muttering a line of dialogue to yourself when you’re in that particular place? [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m watching and bingeing
Constellation [on Apple TV+ globally]: finished S1 (thanks to advanced press screeners), and while I didn’t hate it, it very much brought to mind this now-infamous and incredibly astute tweet:
This show has been a fascinating contrast with my X-Files rewatch, because everything that happens in the eight episodes (so far; it appears there will be an S2) would have been covered in a single 45 minutes of Mulder and Scully’s adventures, and in a way that would have been far more satisfying.
Slow Horses S2 [Apple TV+ globally]: didn’t get back to this last week…
The X-Files [Hulu US/Disney+ UK]: didn’t get back to this last week…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Dune: Part Two, in which spoiled-rotten sci-fi princeling applies for the job of space Hitler
Ava DuVernay’s Origin
Paleolithic thriller Out of Darkness
Andrew Scott in All of Us Strangers
the absolutely brutal The Zone of Interest
Paul Giamatti in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers
Wonka, finally
Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction
based-on-fact family wrestling drama The Iron Claw
thriller The Royal Hotel
Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon
Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn
Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore in May December
Priscilla’s problematic romance with Elvis
teen comedy Bottoms
Barbie, finally, for real, promise
murder mystery Anatomy of a Fall
tween classic onscreen Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
And more!
follow me…
Bluesky | Letterboxd | Rotten Tomatoes | Pinterest | Mastodon | Post | Spoutible | Facebook