weekly digest: website admin prevails
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, March 21st, to Sunday, March 27th
Another slow week review-wise for me, but I did attend to some behind-the-scenes housekeeping at FlickFilosopher.com. Someday I’ll have staff to take care of that sort of stuff for me!
Probably not, actually, but I can dream…
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Mar 21–27
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Mar 25
Survival drama Infinite Storm and romantic adventure comedy The Lost City are new and exclusively in cinemas; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Mar 25
Michael Bay’s crime thriller Ambulance and romantic drama The Worst Person in the World are new and exclusively in cinemas; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Mar 22–25
Oscar-nominated documentary Writing with Fire arrives on demand; new animated adventure The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild debuts on Disney+; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Mar 21–25
Restaurant drama Boiling Point arrives on Netflix; biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye is new on premium VOD and streaming on Disney+; more… [get the full rundown]
my picks for tonight’s 94th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2021-ish’s films)
I haven’t seen as many of the nominated films as I’d have liked. So I’m just trying to put myself in the mindset of how the Academy thinks about movies. [read more]
new commenting features (including a special badge for Patreons/Substackers)
Lots more goodies to make chatting here more fun and useful, and to help you manage your commenting. [read more]
loaded question: what movie do you most associate with springtime?
Mine is probably Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the ultimate spring fever movie. [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
logo refresh!
I think I am now set to celebrate the site’s 25th anniversary later this year. Design-wise, anyway… [read more]
would you like to receive my reviews by email or in an app? (update)
The poll results were split almost exactly between “yes” and “no,” so I started an experiment doing just this, to see if it will help drum up more paying support. [read more]
what I’m bingeing
Call My Agent! [Netflix globally except in Austria, Spain, Germany, and Portugal, for some reason]: didn’t get back to this one at all last week, again, but not for lack of wanting to…
Picard Season 2 [Paramount+ US; Amazon Prime UK]: excellent guest appearance in the past, and a great reference to one of Kirk’s time-travel adventures…
Tweet of the week…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Michael Bay’s Ambulance
Infinite Storm, starring Naomi Watts
Netflix’s Windfall
animated crime comedy The Bad Guys
the Oscar-nominated short films
Regina Hall in horror Master
Deep Water, starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas
horror romance Fresh
Moonfall (I’ve almost gotten my head around it…)
The Matrix: Resurrections
time-traveling ghost story Last Night in Soho
Kenneth Branagh’s autobiographical Belfast
psychological neo-noir Nightmare Alley, from Guillermo del Toro
French freak-show Titane
based-on-a-videogame action-adventure Uncharted
as many more Oscar-nominated films as I can get to
(It’s getting to the point where I’m gonna have to trim this list again if I cannot get my brain in gear…)
And more!
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