weekly digest: traveling hopefully...
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, Nov 25, to Sunday, Dec 1
No, there hasn’t been a Weekly Digest for a couple of weeks cuz I haven’t posted anything for a couple of weeks. And I didn’t post much this week.
I do have my review of Nightbitch ready to go, and a few other reviews close to being ready, so there will definitely be at least some cinematic action from me this coming week.
Plus I’ve started a new movie-related Advent calendar, counting down to Christmas with Christmas-themed — or at least Christmas-adjacent — movies. My previous attempt at this, the curmudgeonly movie lover’s unpleasant Advent calendar, from 2007 and reposted in 2021, remains available as well.
My brain continues to defy me. I am finding it so difficult to get into gear, and when I am able do so, briefly, it’s difficult to maintain. My lack of motivation is such a shock to me: I don’t feel like myself at all. This isn’t me! And I haven’t been me for, well, years now at this point. I keep meaning to write more about this, to try to put some shape to it, but: see aforementioned lack of motivation.
Still, it’s a new week, and I’m heading into it hopefully.
—MaryAnn
PS: A reminder to join me and moderator Lucy Shahar of New York City’s Museum at Eldridge Street for a virtual discussion about 1981’s Oscar Best Picture Chariots of Fire, part of the museum’s Cinema Chats series, this Wednesday, December 4th, at 6pm Eastern, live on Zoom. Tickets are pay-what-you-wish; book here.
new at flick filosopher, Nov 04–10
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #1
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. [read more]
join me for an online chat about ‘Chariots of Fire’ on Dec 4th [pictured]
It’ll be live on Zoom, tickets are pay-what-you-wish, and you can join from anywhere on the planet. [read more]
curated cinema: “we cannot break bread with you…”
1993’s Addams Family Values is on Paramount+ on both sides of the Atlantic, and Netflix in the UK. [read more]
what I’m watching and bingeing
Silo S02 (Apple TV+ globally): S02E01 has now debuted — the first three episodes are live — 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!Just discovered that S02E10 is now available to press — gonna watch that tonight!) 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.Only Murders in the Building S04 (Hulu US, Disney+ UK): finished! Continue to love this show: it’s the embodiment of a cozy murder mystery. Fresh through to the end. I love how they figured out how to keep Jane Lynch (goddess) onboard. I love how meta it gets, how it keeps poking fun at itself. I love that there’s another season to come. Yay!
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Paramount+ [via Prime] US, Netflix and Paramount+ [via Prime] UK): Haven’t seen this series since it was new — loved it then, back in the olden days of the 1990s — and figured it might make for a relaxing rewatch, what with all the sectarian violence, religious bigotry, capitalistic scheming, and the like. I’m through S01 and just starting S02, and it remains great. (Forgot what a snack Vedek Bareil is…)
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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