weekly digest: out here on a Sunday, what?
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, April 15, to Sunday, April 21
This has been my dream for a long time: to actually get my Weekly Digest email out on Sunday. And here it is!
Next dream: to get myself to a place where I get enough work done during the week so that I can 1) send the Weekly Digest on Friday confident that I will not be doing any work over the weekend because 2) I got so much done during the week that I feel comfortable actually relaxing on the weekend.
Hey, a girl can dream…
—MaryAnn
PS: The Twitter alternative Post will be shutting down soon, so I am giving up even pretending to engage over there. How many other Twitter alts will give up the ghost in the coming months? I’m on tenterhooks watching, LOLsob…
new at flick filosopher, Apr 08–14
Arcadian movie review: they mostly come at night, mostly
It exists safely within the vast subgenre of postcollapse afterscapes, but it does what it does well, with nicely drawn characters, a sense of cultural mythmaking, and freakishly unsettling creatures. [read the review | cinemas US]
curated cinema: zombies with a ticket to ride [pictured]
2016’s Train to Busan leaves US Netflix soon; on Studiocanal Presents in the UK (and lots of other services on both sides of the Atlantic). [read more]
what I’m watching and bingeing
Ripley [Netflix globally]: finished! so chilling, such a different vibe from the 1999 Anthony Minghella film (which I also love); ends on such a perfectly rancid note, I love it; makes me wanna read the Patricia Highsmith novel more than the previous film did (bought it for my Kindle, added it to the virtual to-read pile)
The Good Place [Netflix US/UK]: started a rewatch because it feels like comfort viewing, and how forked is that? not gonna lie, I’ve rarely identified so much with a fiction character as I have with Chidi, who is a mess (there, I said it)
Forever [Prime US, Prime UK]: a very gentle but pointed tale about a married couple (the terrific Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen) whose relationship takes an unexpected turn; it lasted only eight half-hour-ish episodes in 2018, but there are hints that it might have gone on for more; very much worth your time even if the brilliant and gorgeous Catherine Keener and Hong Chau hadn’t turned up later in the run; great stuff with an achingly perfect fantasy-adjacent tinge
Star Trek: Discovery S5 [Paramount+ globally; via Prime US, Prime UK]: I mean, it’s Star Trek; the great Callum Keith Rennie is in this season, so, yay! beam me up
The X-Files [Hulu US/Disney+ UK]: did not get back to this in the past week
Slow Horses S2 [Apple TV+ globally]: still haven’t gotten back to this…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
tennis triangle Challengers
road trip drama Bleeding Love, starring father and daughter Ewan and Clara McGregor
queer parody The People’s Joker
Dev Patel’s directorial debut, Monkey Man
lesbian crime romance Love Lies Bleeding
And I have not forgotten about these:
Ava DuVernay’s Origin
Paleolithic thriller Out of Darkness
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
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
tween classic onscreen Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
And more!
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