weekly digest: in which I finally get to ‘Nope’
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, August 22nd, to Sunday, August 28th
Today is the late-August bank holiday here in the UK. Next Monday is Labor Day in the US. Summer is almost over. Enjoy what’s left of it!
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Aug 22–28
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Aug 26
Dramatic thriller Breaking, starring John Boyega, and Javier Bardem in dramedy The Good Boss are new and exclusively in cinemas; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Aug 26
Survival thriller Beast and historical romantic comedy Mr Malcolm’s List are new and exclusively in cinemas; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Aug 23–26
UFO horror Nope and fighter-pilot action drama Top Gun: Maverick arrive on premium VOD; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Aug 22–26
Dramedy Good Luck to You, Leo Grande arrives on premium VOD; Spanish satire Official Competition debuts on Curzon Home Cinema; more… [get the full rundown]
Where Are the Women? criteria now in a German translation!
Journalist Jasper Vormschlag approached me for permission to do the translation. So it’s an authorized translation… although I cannot vouch for its accuracy, because I don’t speak or write German. [read more]
Black Mail movie review: no reason to give in to it
Limp thriller is both overly earnest and naively preposterous. A mess of retro ideas about marriage and men, with a protagonist who lacks agency. There’s no suspense but plenty of misplaced moralizing. [read the review | cinemas UK]
Nope movie review: are we not entertained? [pictured]
There are delicious popcorn-movie vibes and horrors galore, both funny-suspenseful and stone-cold bone-chilling. But most intriguing is the twistiness of how the movie grapples with its own existence. [read the review | cinemas US/UK; premium VOD US]
loaded question: how would you cast ‘The Muppets’ Princess Bride’?
I’ve illustrated this post with an image of Miss Piggy in a wedding dress purely for aesthetic purposes: I think Buttercup, as the straight woman of the story, should probably be the one character played by a human. [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m bingeing
Only Murders in the Building [Hulu US; Disney+ UK]: finished Season 2! did not see that ending coming…
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law [Disney+ globally]: I said it needed more lawyering, and now we’re getting hulked-out lawyering — sweet!
Ted Lasso [AppleTV+ globally]: finally started this, on the recommendation of many readers and friends; as everyone has suggested, it’s so gosh-darned nice (also, it’s shot just down the road from me a bit, in Richmond, London, which is cool)
Tweet of the week…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Idris Elba fights a lion in Beast
John Boyega in Breaking
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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