weekly digest: Zac Efron strikes gold (and it strikes back)
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, March 7th, to Sunday, March 13th
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new at flick filosopher, Mar 7–13
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Mar 11
Suspense drama Gold, and not much else… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Mar 11
Indies Red Rocket (a dramedy) and A Banquet (horror), and that’s about it… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Mar 08–11
The Matrix Resurrections is now available for rental on demand, and on DVD; coming-of-age dramedy Turning Red debuts on Disney+; more… [get the full rundown]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Mar 07–11
Coming-of-age dramedy Turning Red debuts on Disney+; time-travel action adventure The Adam Project is new on Netflix; more… [get the full rundown]
Gold movie review: dust in the wind
In a dry, dusty, desperate landscape, Zac Efron goes full grunge, effectively underplaying physical and psychological implosion. But there’s nothing unexpected in this brutal open-air chamber piece. [read the review | cinemas + VOD US ]
loaded question: what comic book or comic-book character deserves a big-screen adaptation?
I think current events warrant my choice: I’d love to see an animated adaptation of Art Spiegelman’s Maus. (He says he has no interest in this, but I can dream.) [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m bingeing
Call My Agent! [Netflix globally except in Austria, Spain, Germany, and Portugal, for some reason]: just so everyone is forewarned, I might start saying super (with a French accent, bien sûr) instead of “cool” or “great” from now on…
Picard Season 2 [Paramount+ US; Amazon Prime UK]: this went somewhere unexpected last week! love a juicy alt-universe…
‘The Batman’ tweets of the week…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
Ukrainian drama Olga
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
And more!
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