weekly digest: throwing a digital bone...
the very little that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, September 29, to Sunday, October 05
Just one measly review for you this past week, but that’s better than I’ve been doing lately! And I’m determined not to give the Weekly Digest a miss anymore if there’s anything at all to share, even just one little thing, partly to keep myself in the posting groove but also because I’m not sure how many of you may be here only for the Weekly Digest (and not the emails for each new review or other posts), as a way of keeping yourselves in the reading groove.
Anyway, it’s not much this week, but here it is. I’ve been bingeing movies at London Film Festival pre-fest screenings, and the festival proper starts on Wednesday — my brain is bursting with movies to write about. Feels good to be back!
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Sep 29–Oct 5
Good Boy movie review: horrors beyond canine comprehension [pictured]
A haunted house movie from the dog’s perspective. No cheap gimmick but an absolute marvel, strikingly original and deeply affecting. An interspecies love story without a lick of phony sentimentality. [read my review | US cinemas now; UK cinemas Friday]
what I’m watching and bingeing
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S03 (Paramount+ US/UK): finished! it’s goofy and breaks canon (the let’s-be-Vulcans episode) but I enjoy it for how it plays with the tropes of the franchise; it’s just plain fun
Only Murders in the Building S05 (Hulu US; Disney+ UK): I love a cozy murder and I continue to love this show; so cool seeing Téa Leoni back on our screens
New Girl (Hulu, Peacock US; Disney+ UK): just discovered this 2011–18 Fox sitcom, and it’s absolutely delightful (and I don’t like sitcoms); Zooey Deschanel and Jake Johnson for the win… and I just got to The Kiss!
Alien: Earth (Disney+ globally): getting nothing but a Surf Dracula vibe from this:
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Paramount+ [via Prime] US, Netflix and Paramount+ [via Prime] UK): still rewatching (seasons used to be so jam-packed with episodes!), and 30 years later, the politics of this show remain radical
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
actor Harris Dickinson’s directorial debut, Urchin
the return of Benoit Blanc in Wake Up Dead Man (it’s at London Film Festival!)
Emma Thompson in Dead of Winter
EMS black comedy Code 3
indie dramedy The Baltimorons
more London Film Festival flicks
and a lot more.
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