weekly digest: it was a week to write off
the very little that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, June 20th, to Sunday, June 26th
I’m sorry there was no Weekend Watchlist this weekend (though the one from a month ago came up free for everyone; link below), and very little posted at FlickFilosopher.com. I was laid low by a stomach virus that left me unable to do much beyond doze fitfully in between doomscrolling, all with roiling cramps. For days. So much fun. (At least it wasn’t COVID.)
It was a wasted week. But I’m feeling better now, and looking forward to getting back to work.
As for that doomscrolling… Ugh. The world just keeps getting worse and worse, and my despair only increases.
It seems silly and frivolous to talk about movies with the multifarious yet interconnected crises we’re all having to cope with. But I also do firmly believe that movies are important — for escapism, for shaping our culture (for better or for worse), for telling stories that might otherwise go untold, for exploring new ways we could be looking at the world — and that storytelling is one of the things that makes us human.
So I’ll carry on.
In the meantime, here’s a peek at a movie that will definitely be included in the coming week’s Watchlist: the French abortion drama Happening, new on Prime Video in the US (and still in cinemas, too).
When I wrote my review last month, we only feared the end of Roe in America was coming. Now it’s here… and the 60-year-old nightmare depicted in this movie has returned.
I can’t believe this is where we are.
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Jun 20–26
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Jun 24
Baz Lurhmann’s Elvis is new and exclusively in cinemas; Ukrainian drama Olga debuts on one NYC screen (with more cities to come); more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Jun 24
Baz Lurhmann’s Elvis has arrived in buildings… exclusively in cinema buildings, that is… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Jun 21–24
French abortion drama Happening arrives on demand; Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness debuts on Disney+ and premium VOD; much much more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Jun 20–24
Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness debuts on Disney+; historical drama Benediction lands on premium VOD; much more… [get the full rundown]
sorry for my absence, sick as a dog
It’s not COVID… [read more]
weekend watchlist: the plot to trick Hitler [pictured]
Plus grownup romance and a bland dystopia, and more. (First published May 21st, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.) [read more]
loaded question: what movie do you most associate with summer?
Maybe it’s a film set in the summer, or maybe there’s some other association for you. [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m bingeing
Ms Marvel [Disney+ globally]: yup, she’s adorable! I loved the total joy of the wedding… before it morphed into a fight scene accompanied by a Bon Jovi song; #JerseyStrong
Obi-Wan Kenobi [Disney+ globally]: finished! I’m not sure much of this jibes with the established timeline, but I’m more cheesed off — though not very much — that the gaps filled in here probably didn’t need filling in; didn’t hate it, but it could have been so much more
Ten Percent [Sundance Now/AMC+ US; Prime Video UK]: watched a few more episodes, and I’m glad to see it’s diverging enough from Call My Agent! that I don’t know where everything is going…
Tweet of the week…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis
oddball buddy dramedy Brian and Charles
period drama Mr. Malcolm’s List
Emma Thompson in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
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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