weekly digest: where does every week go?
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, January 15, to Sunday, January 21
Where does the week go?!
I spent a good chunk of last week catching up on movies that received nominations in the Online Film Critics Society awards — just to add to the very long to-review list that has been accumulating recently.
I spent half a day at a hospital outpatient clinic getting my fractured fibula checked out. (It’s healing well! I was able to ditch the boot, but the ankle still hurts a bit and I’m going easy on it for the time being.)
I did get one review written and posted — for the space drama I.S.S. — and another one is well underway.
Why doesn’t that feel like enough? Argh!
Anyway, happy Monday! Time to get back on the hamster wheel…
—MaryAnn
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new at flick filosopher, Jan 15–21
my ranking of 2024’s movies has begun!
There are only a few films on it so far, but the year is young… [read more]
I.S.S. movie review: burns up on reentry
It looks amazing and the cast is fab, but while this could-happen-tomorrow story wants to appropriate the magic of science fiction, it fails to think imaginatively about longstanding human problems. [read the review | cinemas US]
OFCS 2023 awards nominees announced
Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things, and Barbie lead the nominees… [read more]
loaded question: what 2023 movie was the worst you saw? [pictured]
For me, this was School of Magical Animals, a desperately terrible Harry Potter family-fantasy knockoff out of Germany… [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
daily stream: an elegantly nuanced story of emigration
2015’s Brooklyn is on Prime in the US, Lionsgate+ in the UK (and other services as well). [read more]
what I’m watching and bingeing
Slow Horses [Apple TV+ globally]: they really are the world’s worst spies…
The X-Files [Hulu US/Disney+ UK]: still have not gotten back to this; there is too much stuff to watch…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Ava DuVernay’s Origin
Andrew Scott in All of Us Strangers
the absolutely brutal The Zone of Interest
Paul Giamatti in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers
Wonka, finally
Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction
based-on-fact family wrestling drama The Iron Claw
thriller The Royal Hotel
Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon
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
murder mystery Anatomy of a Fall
mockumentary Theater Camp
gay romance Passages
tween classic onscreen Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
And more!
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