weekly digest: making Flick Filosopher as privacy-friendly as possible
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, February 21st, to Sunday, February 27th
As I announced in last week’s digest was in the offing, I have gotten Flick Filosopher off Disqus for commenting! And I’ve also moved to a cookie-free method for sharing links to my site on social networks. (This method is also free of Javascript, but should make the site load a little quicker, too.) You might see temporary authorization cookies dropped into your browser the first time you create a new account at Flick Filosopher for commenting if you use one of the social-login methods (see this post for more information on that), but after that, the only cookies associated with Flick Filosopher should be ones that are about remembering your login… and if you don’t sign up to comment, you won’t even get these.
I’ve also done some other stuff behind the scenes to eliminate cookies and trackers that won’t be noticeable to you… like giving Google Analytics the boot. GA is a way to track pageviews and visitors to the site, but I realized that I was barely looking at those numbers, and that anyway, those numbers are not the ones that are important to me. Because there are no ads on Flick Filosopher, it doesn’t matter whether the site gets a thousand, a hundred thousand, or a million visitors per day. (Spoiler: it has never gotten anywhere near those higher numbers.) Engaged and community-oriented readers are who matter, so please leave comments! Start conversations, or jump into one! I, and other Flick Filosopher readers, want to hear what you have to say.
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Feb 14–20
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Feb 25
Musical romance Cyrano is new and exclusively in cinemas; Nordic thriller The Burning Sea opens in limited release; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Feb 24–25
Crime dramedy The Duke and musical romance Cyrano are new and exclusively in cinemas; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Feb 22–25
Nordic thriller The Burning Sea debuts on demand; historical mystery drama House of Gucci is now available as a rental; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Feb 21–25
Oscar nominee Belfast is new on premium VOD, and Oscar nominee King Richard is on DVD and rental VOD; more… [get the full rundown]
social sharing links have changed
You’re sharing my reviews on Twitter and sending links to your mom by email, right? Of course you are! And now you’ll see that the way you do that has changed a little. [read more]
a documentary about Ukraine that Putin probably should have watched
If you need a bit of background on the invasion of Ukraine by Russia this week, the Netflix documentary Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom is absolutely essential and unmissable. [read more]
Cyrano movie review: out of tune [pictured]
Peter Dinklage is wonderful, but this feels like a suggestion of a movie, not an actual one. It’s not romantic; there’s no humor, no absurdity. Its unpleasantness is as puzzling as it is inescapable. [read the review | cinemas US/UK
Disqus is history!
Feel free to use this post to play around with the new commenting system, and please do report any weird behavior or bugs you run into. [read more]
loaded question: which celebrity would you cast as which current or historical figure in a biopic?
In honor of Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al Yankovic. Yes, this is happening. [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m bingeing
Call My Agent! [Netflix globally except in Austria, Spain, Germany, and Portugal, for some reason]: This French dramedy series set in a Paris talent agency is lined up for a British remake, so now is a good time to catch up with it. It’s smart, snarky, sophisticated fluff about movie-star egos, the insecurities of hangers-on, workplace politics and relationships, and, of course, movies. I’m only three episodes in (there are 24 episodes across four seasons so far, with more to come), and I’m hooked.
Tweets of the week…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
The Batman, which I can, at this point, neither confirm nor deny that I have already seen…
Moonfall (I’ve almost gotten my head around it…)
The Matrix: Resurrections
time-traveling ghost story Last Night in Soho
Kenneth Branagh’s autobiographical Belfast
psychological neo-noir Nightmare Alley, from Guillermo del Toro
French freak-show Titane
based-on-a-videogame action-adventure Uncharted
as many more Oscar-nominated films as I can get to
And more!
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Well nobody but you knows that you're behind! I had presumed the film was based upon the well-known SF book by Jack McDevitt which has the same name. My mistook!
I forgot to mention - I loved the Volodymyr Zelenskyy clips!