weekly digest: two reviews! (go me!)
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, September 4, to Sunday, September 10
It’s Monday. Here’s a picture of a puppy (and a movie about dogs) to get you through it…
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Sep 04–11
My Animal movie review: out of the wilderness (and into a bigger one)
A mysterious, mournful film about proscribed teenaged-girlhood and feral female sexuality. There’s nothing entirely original here, but what it has to say, it says with enormous confidence and panache. [read the review | playing at Alamo Drafthouses in the US, on VOD Friday]
The Dive movie review: don’t hold your breath
Intermittent moments of fleeting suspense punctuate literal and figurative murkiness (I gave up trying to figure out what was going on) as it flails around trying to pad itself out to feature length. [read the review | cinemas+VOD US, cinemas UK]
daily stream: condemned to repeat the past, etc…
2017’s The Death of Stalin is on Hulu and Kanopy in the US, Prime and Apple TV in the UK. [read more]
daily stream: a rare genuine onscreen everywoman
2002’s My Big Fat Greek Wedding is on Max in the US, ITVx in the UK. [read more]
daily stream: where dogs are the equals of humans [pictured]
2021’s Stray is on Kanopy in the US, Netflix in the UK. [read more]
daily stream: smashing bigotry and creating solidarity
2014’s Pride is on Paramount+ in the US, Disney+ in the UK. [read more]
loaded question: what are some great movies about unions and the fight for workers’ rights?
Industrial action on a scale unseen in perhaps decades is remaking economic landscapes on both sides of the Atlantic, and such events are rife with the personal and cultural drama movies love… [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m watching and bingeing
Ted Lasso S3 [Apple TV+ globally]: finished! loved how the female characters got such great arcs this season
Invasion S2 [Apple TV+ globally]: haven’t gotten to the most recent episode yet; sad to me that a sci-fi series just doesn’t feel urgent
Good Omens S2 [Prime US, UK, and globally]: my boyfriend Peter Davison as Job? LOL!
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Canadian immigrant drama Brother
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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once again commenting about you watching Good Omens s2; I adore the Job scene, and with Davison as Job and Ty Tennant as his son Ennon, there’s three generations in that minisode!
also, just saw Theater Camp yesterday, so I am looking forward to reading what you thought of it! enjoyed your reviews this past week, as well as your recs.