weekly digest: so many daily screams for spooky season...
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, October 9, to Sunday, October 15
London Film Festival is over, and I’m exhausted, mentally and physically. It was wonderful! I saw so many films! (And I actually have a few more to watch on digital screeners.) Now comes all the writing — there’s never time to write during the festival, though I always imagine that somehow I will manage it — and the shift back to movie normality… whatever that is these days.
That’s on my agenda, too: trying to figure out what it means to be a film critic in the mid 2020s, as absolutely all solid ground beneath our foot, metaphorically speaking, is crumbling.
Fun times ahead…
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Oct 09–15
Cat Person movie review: her too
The cringe of modern relationships stinks up this antiromance. Its bald truths, all but ignored in pop culture, about how women navigate romantic and sexual relationships with men, demand to be heard. [read the review | cinemas US; cinemas UK Oct 27]
daily scream: gnaw your own arm off, why don’t you?
2010’s 127 Hours is on Prime in the US, Disney+ in the UK (and lots of other services, too). [read more]
daily scream: the movie that made a screening room full of critics whimper
2005’s The Descent is on Max in the US and Prime in the UK (and other services, too). [read more]
daily scream: this ultimate horror movie works on levels you didn’t even know existed
2012’s The Cabin in the Woods is on Max in the US, Sky Cinema in the UK (and lots of other services!). [read more]
daily scream: regrets — massive regrets — only
2016’s The Invitation is on Shudder on both sides of the Atlantic (and plenty other services, too!). [read more]
daily scream: shorn of the dead
2007’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is on Paramount+ in the US, Prime in the UK. [read more]
daily scream: the only vampire feminist spaghetti western [pictured]
2014’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is on Kanopy in the US, Studiocanal Presents in the UK. [read more]
daily scream: urban legends, modern horrors
2021’s Candyman is on Prime in the US, BBC iPlayer in the UK. [read more]
loaded question: how do we reinvent cinema in the streaming age?
What might reinvented cinema look like? What kinds of stories might cinema tell that it hasn’t been in recent years, or ever? Where do we go from here? [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m watching and bingeing
Invasion S2 [Apple TV+ globally]: still have not gotten back to this one…
Only Murders in the Building S3 [Hulu US, Disney+ UK]: should murder be comfort TV? asking for a me…
Loki S2 [Disney+ globally]: um, so, a lotta genocide going on here; Thanos has some serious competition; what even are stakes anymore in the MCU?
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Martin Scorsese’s historical crime epic Killers of the Flower Moon
sci-fi Foe, starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal
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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