weekly digest: those musical trolls are back...
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, November 6, to Sunday, November 12
I’m not engaging on Twitter anymore, but I am still lurking there, and two tweets about mental health hit home with me in the last week. The first is from political cartoonist Michael de Adder:
This is very much how I’ve been feeling. Everything creative takes so much more effort than it used to. I’m working on this, and my brain seems to be very slowly bouncing back. But then there’s this, from Sherry Ning, who is here on Substack writing about “human nature, purposeful living, and creativity”:
This might be obvious only in retrospect, and I’m not in a position to be retrospective yet, but I think this is where I am right now: broken completely. (My uncle’s death in August may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back of my mental health.)
I’m sure I’ll have much more to say about my stupid brain as this *fingers crossed* healing reveals itself.
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Nov 06–12
daily stream: finding necessary purpose in elderhood
2020’s The Mole Agent is on Hulu and Kanopy in the US, BFI Player and Dogwoof on Demand in the UK. [read more]
daily stream: how can you find yourself when you don’t even know who you are?
2017’s Lady Bird leaves BBC iPlayer in the UK soon; on Kanopy and Netflix in the US. [read more]
Trolls Band Together movie review: cheerful kindness, weirdified [pictured]
There is gentle nonstop chaos in the trippy candy-colored assault. Genuinely good-natured, sweet without being sappy, more strange (in a good way) than kids’ movies usually are, and hard to dislike. [read the review | UK cinemas now, US cinemas Fri]
daily stream: a progressive voice from a century ago, back from the memory-hole
2017’s The Lost City of Z is on Prime in the US, Netflix in the UK. [read more]
daily stream: running away to start their own circus
2018’s Even When I Fall is on Kanopy in the US, Prime in the UK. [read more]
daily stream: dangerous science, dangerous men
2006’s The Prestige leaves UK Prime soon; on Paramount+ in the US. [read more]
loaded question: what are the best movies about resistance to oppression, repression, and colonialism?
Apropos of, oh, nothing at all that might be in the news at the moment (Free Palestine!)… [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m watching and bingeing
The X-Files [Hulu US/Disney+ UK]: um, so liver-eating serial-killer monster Eugene Tooms is due to return in 2023; be on the lookout…
classic Doctor Who [BBC iPlayer UK]: didn’t watch any more this past week
Loki S2 [Disney+ globally]: finished! very Groundhog Day/Edge of Tomorrow there in the last episode… but honestly, how many more universe-ending disasters can be thwarted before there’s just never a hint of genuine threat in the MCU anymore? (spoiler: I think we’re already past that point)
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
thriller The Royal Hotel
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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
the latest MCU entry, The Marvels
Nicolas Cage in weird fantasy Dream Scenario
murder mystery Anatomy of a Fall
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
Meg 2: The Trench
Joy Ride
tween classic onscreen Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
And more!
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