weekly(ish) digest: attempting again to get back into the swing of things

everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, Oct 14, to Sunday, Oct 27 (with a few earlier stragglers)

Oct 28, 2024

Heads up again that I will be reading a piece of flash fiction from my collection Cultural Artifacts this Friday, November 1st, at noon Eastern (4pm UK time), on the Strong Women - Strange Worlds First Friday QuickReads Zoom. Click here for more info, and register to attend at Eventbrite. (The even is free to attend, but you do need to register in advance.)

There will be an opportunity for Q&As with me and the other authors reading, giveaways, and more. Everyone who attends and is willing to share their email address with SW-SW will get a free ebook copy of Cultural Artifacts!

If you miss the live Zoom, you’ll be able to catch up later on the SW-SW YouTube channel. I’ll post the video as soon as it’s available, but I’m told it may be several weeks, at least, before that happens.

Re the timing: noon on the East Coast is usually 5pm in the UK, but the UK went off Daylight Savings Time this past weekend while the US is still on it. Do take that into account when planning your attendance.

—MaryAnn

PS: Again, I apologize for my long stretches of quiet lately. I really am starting to feel more like my old self recently and am very actively trying to get back to a more regular posting schedule. Massive thanks again for your patience while I slog my way out of my midlife — or two-thirds-life, I guess — crisis.

new at flick filosopher, Oct 14–27 (mostly)

curated cinema: it’s all funny-scary eldritch atmosphere

2015’s Crimson Peak is streaming on Prime in the US, and available to rent or buy on Prime in the UK. [read more]

curated cinema: the fear and rage of being human

2016’s A Monster Calls is streaming on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic. [read more]

curated cinema: home is where the ill wind blows

2016’s Under the Shadow is on Netflix (and lots of other services) on both sides of the Atlantic. [read more]

curated cinema: the monster in the basement is your pain

2014’s The Babadook is on Netflix, and lots of other services, on both sides of the Atlantic. [read more]

Your Monster movie review: embrace the beast

Sure, the humor may be bitter, the horror may be audacious, and the overriding genre may be “anti-romance.” But this hugely original, grimly delightful howl of feminine rage is actually kinda sweet. [read the review | cinemas US; UK cinemas Nov 29]

curated cinema: the woods are just trees, right? *gulp*

2017’s The Ritual is on Netflix in the US, Prime in the UK. [read more]

new Flick Filosopher WhatsApp channel

The channel is broadcast only, a quick and easy way to get a heads-up of new Flick Filosopher stuff. No followers yet. Be the first! [read more]

I’m on the Strong Women – Strange Worlds Zoom Fri Nov 01

I’ll be reading one of the pieces of flash fiction from my SF/F/horror collection Cultural Artifacts. [read more]

curated cinema: fresh horror and fresh humanity in a stale subgenre

2016’s The Girl with All the Gifts is on Prime and Apple TV in the US and the UK. [read more]

curated cinema: the wit and wisdom of Maggie Smith (and her friends)

2018’s Tea with the Dames (aka Nothing Like a Dame) is on Kanopy in the US, BBC iPlayer in the UK. [read more]

I’m guesting once more on movie podcast Ribbon of Memes

I join hosts RogerBW and Nick Marsh to talk about the early 1990s trilogy Three Colours. [read more]

Lee movie review: the things she saw, and the way she saw them [pictured]

It barely scratches the surface of the enormous audacity of WWII photographer Lee Miller, but still this is an important movie. It’s also joyous filmmaking, with terrific performances all around. [read the review | cinemas+premium VOD US; cinemas UK]

what I’m watching and bingeing

(nothing at the moment, too depressed to watch TV, how pathetic is that?)

coming up at Flick Filosopher…

Steve McQueen’s historical drama Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan
Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci in papal procedural Conclave
Donald Trump’s villain origin story, The Apprentice
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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