weekly digest: reviews of two new movies... but which one is more horrific?
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, October 23, to Sunday, October 29
We fell back on the clock here in the UK this past weekend. Now the nights are really closing in: sunset is at 4:38pm in London today, and it’s still almost two months to go till the shortest day (when the sun won’t rise till 8:04am and will set less than eight hours later, at 3:53pm). I love the change of seasons and I love this time of year especially, not least because more darkness means more movies. I mean, going to a cinema in the daytime is fine, as far as I’m concerned, because it’s dark inside. But watching movies at home in the daylight hours never feels quite right. That’s less of a problem for me for a while!
Happy movie-watching, however you enjoy it.
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Oct 23–29
daily scream: meta horror about how scary movies infect us
2021’s Censor on Kanopy in the US, 4 in the UK (and lots of other services, too). [read more]
daily scream: when the silence of the lamb is horrifying
2021’s Lamb is on Paramount+ in the US, Mubi in the UK. [read more]
When Evil Lurks (Cuando acecha la maldad) movie review: what rough beast…
The visceral meatiness of this demonic-possession–infectious-zombie combo hits like a blow. The social and political context for the grotesquerie is even more appalling, and so very pertinent. [read the review | cinemas US; Shudder US/UK]
daily scream: sexy scary vampire? hell yes!
2011’s Fright Night is on Prime in the US, Disney+ in the UK. [read more]
daily scream: haunted, and haunting…
2001’s The Others is on Prime and Apple TV on both sides of the Atlantic (and a few other services as well). [read more]
daily scream: coldly elegant postapocalyptic misery
2017’s It Comes at Night is on Kanopy in the US, Prime in the UK. [read more]
loaded question: what’s a music album that you fear not enough people realize is perfect?
Expanding the entertainment conversation beyond movies (though obviously you can pick a film score or compilation soundtrack if you like)… [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
more bad news: RIP my uncle, John Benton-Harris (update: the Guardian ran an obit)
My year of hell continues… [read more]
daily scream: flesh and blood… so much blood
2017’s Raw is on Apple TV and YouTube on both sides of the Atlantic (and other services, too). [read more]
Killers of the Flower Moon movie review: blood for oil (London Film Festival 2023)
A great American filmmaker on a memory-holed chapter of American history at the intersection of colonialism and toxic masculinity. Massive, epic, and essential. Scorches the earth of our complacency. [read the review | cinemas US/UK]
what I’m watching and bingeing
Invasion S2 [Apple TV+ globally]: finished! slogged through this season only to have something finally happen in the end, plus a cliffhanger; guess I’ll watch S3 whenever we get that *sigh*
Only Murders in the Building S3 [Hulu US, Disney+ UK]: is it weird that this show has made me homesick for NYC more than anything else? :-)
Loki S2 [Disney+ globally]: I feel like I’m watching this more out of habit, and love of the cast and production design, than anything else; Marvel stuff is just not that exciting anymore…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
thriller The Royal Hotel
Priscilla’s problematic romance with Elvis
teen comedy Bottoms
lots of London Film Festival coverage
Dumb Money
Kenneth Branagh’s latest Poirot, A Haunting in Venice
based-on-a-true-videogame Gran Turismo
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, maybe?
mockumentary Theater Camp
gay romance Passages
alien-contact dramedy Jules
documentary Kokomo City
Barbie
Meg 2: The Trench
Joy Ride
tween classic onscreen Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
And more!
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