weekly digest: it’s okay to call this movie “total gibberish"
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, June 13th, to Sunday, June 19th
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new at flick filosopher, Jun 13–19
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Jun 17
Oddball dramedy Brian and Charles and Toy Story spinoff Lightyear are new and exclusively in cinemas; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Jun 17
Sex dramedy Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and Toy Story spinoff Lightyear are new and exclusively in cinemas; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Jun 12–17
Sex dramedy Good Luck to You, Leo Grande debuts on Hulu; sci-fi thriller Spiderhead debuts on Netflix; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Jun 13–17
Multiverse action drama Everything Everywhere All at Once is new on premium VOD; sci-fi thriller Spiderhead debuts on Netflix; more… [get the full rundown]
Nude Tuesday movie review: nonsense, not quite inspired (Tribeca Film Festival 2022) [pictured]
The wacky-yet-heartfelt comedy just about works; the gibberish dialogue, not so much. But this could be the makings of a crowdsourced cult fave, if playful viewers end up creating their own subtitles. [read the review | streaming US through June 22nd]
curated: Sarah Polley on Terry Gilliam is a masterclass in how brilliant men get away with their bullshit
Polley makes no bones about what is at play here, and it’s a microcosm for Hollywood in the main. Brutal, and extraordinary. [read more]
weekend watchlist: a movie worth paying premium VOD prices for
Plus horrors fantastical, hellish, alien… and all too down to Earth. (First published May 14th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.) [read more]
loaded question: is nostalgia out of control?
I feel like if it is, this may be partly down to the forces that prompted last week’s Loaded Question: Is fandom out of control? [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m bingeing
Ms Marvel [Disney+ globally]: I’m a sucker for superhero training sequences, and it’s fun how this show is dealing with that…
Obi-Wan Kenobi [Disney+ globally]: I… I hope what they’re doing with Reva is gonna make sense, cuz her backstory as revealed in the most recent episode is a bit of a head-scratcher…
Ten Percent [Sundance Now/AMC+ US; Prime Video UK]: finally started the English-language adaptation of the French series Call My Agent!, with the action moved to London; two episodes in, and I’m not sure it’s quite as charming as the original, but I do love Jack Davenport…
Tweet of the week…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis
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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