weekly digest: scary stuff to stream for Halloween
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, October 16, to Sunday, October 22
It’s been driving me absolutely bananas that at least hundreds, probably thousands of reader-supplied comments are missing from Flick Filosopher posts for several years before and after 2019-ish. They’re from the last few years when I was using Disqus for commenting at the site. What happened is this: Comments posted via Disqus went to Disqus’s database. Those comments were supposed to automatically sync themselves to the WordPress database at my site, so that when I stopped using Disqus for commenting those comments would still appear. But the comments didn’t get synced, even when I did manually syncing… which I started to do because I learned how cavalierly Disqus was treating your comments.
Anyway, the missing comments still exist in Disqus’s database, and I’ve been working with Disqus trying to figure out why the sync isn’t working. Once the problem is solved, I can do a final sync, get all those comments back, and be done with Disqus once and for all. Disqus’s engineers tell me they might be close to a solution, so hopefully this will get resolved soon.
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Oct 16–22
daily scream: hell is full, 21st-century style
2004’s Dawn of the Dead is on Starz in the US, Netflix in the UK (and lots of other services too!). [read more]
daily scream: when we ordinary mortals are the monsters
2014’s Only Lovers Left Alive is on Hulu in the US, Mubi in the UK (and lots of other services, too). [read more]
daily scream: is there someone inside you?
1973’s The Exorcist is on Max in the US, BBC iPlayer in the UK (but leaving soon). [read more]
Foe movie review: scenes from an apocalyptic marriage (London Film Festival 2023)
The young cast is mesmerizing, but all this dusty dystopia has is vibes and vague metaphors. It only just barely touches on the potential of its science-fiction ideas to explore the human condition. [read the review | cinemas US/UK]
daily scream: when ghosts of the past still haunt the present [pictured]
2019’s Doctor Sleep is on Hulu in the US, Prime in the UK (and many other services, too). [read more]
daily scream: end-of-life nightmare despair
2002’s Bubba Ho-Tep is on Prime in the US; not streaming in the UK, alas. [read more]
loaded question: what are the all-time great movie endings?
A deceptively simple question, but consider this: what makes a great ending? [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m watching and bingeing
Invasion S2 [Apple TV+ globally]: caught up, now waiting for the final episode this week; not sure why I keep watching…
Only Murders in the Building S3 [Hulu US, Disney+ UK]: just so much fun…
Loki S2 [Disney+ globally]: a trip to the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair! excellent; we need more stories about that event…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Martin Scorsese’s historical crime epic Killers of the Flower Moon (later today!)
some scary movies for Halloween
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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