weekly digest: Santa gets kidnapped, and other injustices
weekly digest: Santa gets kidnapped, and other injustices
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, Nov 4, to Sunday, Nov 10
Hey, it’s not Sunday, it’s not Monday: It’s already Tuesday, and I thought: I’m this late with my Weekly Digest, and I didn’t even post much last week, so should I just hold off and do a two-week digest next week? But I kicked myself in the ass and told myself: No, you buffoon. Just send the email.
So here it is.
Honestly, I really was starting to feel more like myself after these past six months two years of personal horror. And then we had that presidential election in the US, and I am back wallowing in misery again.
But I cannot do another four years of wretchedness. I am determined not to descend into despair. At the very least, I can do the one thing I’m good at: talking about movies. Expect my Movies for the Resistance — which has been sadly neglected in my recent misery — to ramp back up. First up: historical Irish drama Small Things Like These, starring Cillian Murphy as a man confronting on one his nation’s greatest shames. It’s a film about how to cope with facing an injustice around you that everyone simply accepts.
I feel like this is going to be something all of us — in America and beyond — are going to have to deal with in the coming years.
Good luck to us all.
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Nov 04–10
Red One movie review: a very copaganda Christmas
Unfunny action comedy can’t even pull off sloppy Yuletide kitsch. The anti-chemistry among its likable stars is “bested” only by the ugly CGI. Have some light festive violence — you know, for kids! [read the review | UK cinemas now, US Fri]
I’m back on movie podcast Ribbon of Memes, talking about ‘Midsommar’ [pictured]
I join hosts RogerBW and Nick Marsh to talk about Ari Aster’s 2019 horror flick Midsommar. [read more]
what I’m watching and bingeing
Silo S02 (Apple TV+ globally): S02E01 debuts on Nov 15, but I’ve been lucky enough to be able to binge right through to E09 (of 10) thanks to Apple TV’s press platform. (Still waiting for E10! Apple torturing us critics!) I absolutely adored the first season (I’ve watched it twice), so I’ll just say: if you love smart science fiction with great worldbuilding, characters to adore (or loathe, as appropriate), and incredibly suspenseful cliffhangers (even if you’ve read the books!), do not miss this show. Catch up with season one now and get ready for more.
Only Murders in the Building S04 (Hulu US, Disney+ UK): I’m only a couple episodes into S04, but I delighted to see that this show keeps finding fresh ways to keep us engaged. It has, wonderfully, not run out of steam yet.
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Gladiator II: Electric Boogaloo
Andrea Arnold’s Bird
Cillian Murphy in Small Things Like These, a Movie for the Resistance
Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci in papal procedural Conclave
Donald Trump’s villain origin story, The Apprentice
Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door
Sebastian Stan in A Different Man
body horror The Substance, starring Demi Moore
Jesse Eisenberg’s dramedy A Real Pain
based-on-a-videogame Borderlands
political documentary War Game
folk horror Starve Acre
M. Night Shyamalan’s latest, Trap
return of the facehuggers in Alien: Romulus
a bunch of London Film Festival reviews
and a lot more.
I have not forgotten about all the other reviews I’ve been promising here, but I’m gonna keep the list elsewhere for now so I stop torturing you…
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