weekly digest: including a dark earworm about actors that I cannot shake...
the very little that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, January 29, to Sunday, February 4
Well, hello there, meme that hit a little too close to home this morning:
I haven’t been doing nothing, of course, but it hasn’t been anywhere near enough. I feel particularly bad about not yet managing to get the Daily Stream posts out actually daily. But then I reminded myself that none of you is immediately dropping everything to watch whatever movie I’m recommending, and that my older recommendations continue to be valid.
So when you’re stuck finding something to watch, you can always look back at my suggestions using the Streaming Watchlist category at Flick Filosopher, the Daily Stream tag at Patreon, or the Streaming Watchlist tab at Substack.
And now I’m really really really gonna try to have a good and productive week…
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Jan 29–Feb 04
daily stream: it’s never too late to get busy living
2007’s The Bucket List is on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic (and other services, too). [read more]
daily stream: when a brave new life is forced upon you… [pictured]
2013’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is on Prime in the US, Disney+ in the UK. [read more]
loaded question: what’s a notion you hold about pop culture (movies, TV, comics, whatev) that you know is unreasonable but can’t shake?
Mine is a dark earworm about actors and the characters they (sometimes) portray that I know is absurd, and I can’t not hear it. [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m watching and bingeing
Slow Horses S2 [Apple TV+ globally]: nasty Russians and an even nastier Cold War hangover; so far so grim (and addictive)…
Queer Eye S8 [Netflix globally]: one of the episodes I watched this week make me sob my eyes out, so that’s where I am…
The X-Files [Hulu US/Disney+ UK]: yay, watched some more this week; gotta be one of the greatest TV dramas of recent decades
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Ava DuVernay’s Origin
action spy comedy Argyll
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
mockumentary Theater Camp
gay romance Passages
tween classic onscreen Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
And more!
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