Sitemap - 2022 - Flick Filosopher
Violent Night movie review: ho ho holy shit
Avatar: The Way of Water movie review: blueface on a blue planet
Harry & Meghan: Vol I television review: royal rumble counterpunch
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minimal updates at the moment...
loaded question: what is your favorite alternate / revisionist history lately?
weekly digest: just a couple of bits and pieces, I'm afraid...
weekend watchlist: is it good to be the queen?
weekly digest: a very bad movie, and much worse reality
weekend watchlist: sweet, funny, frank pillow talk
Blackbird movie review: Michael “Riverdance” Flatley flatfoots his way into filmmaking
weekly digest: beasts galore...
weekend watchlist: an all man-(and woman)-versus-beast(s), all both-sides-of-the-pond special
Beast (2022) movie review: he fights the lion
loaded question: what movie characters’ bad experiences make you feel better about your own life?
weekly digest: in which I finally get to ‘Nope’
weekend watchlist: a sci-fi mood piece of eeriness, ookiness, and dread
Black Mail movie review: no reason to give in to it
Nope movie review: are we not entertained?
loaded question: how would you cast ‘The Muppets’ Princess Bride’?
weekly digest: a not-so-little girl and a very big tower
weekend watchlist: men who gaslight for fun and profit
Orphan: First Kill movie review: not-so-little girl lost
Eiffel movie review: Gustave’s erection
loaded question: what movie have you seen the most times in its initial theatrical run?
weekly digest: a mild princess and wild (actually quite mild) men
weekend watchlist: when the ghosts won't shut up
The Princess documentary review: look back in anger
Wild Men (Vildmænd) movie review: mild men, more like
loaded question: do you think the cancelled Batgirl movie will ever see the light of day?
weekly digest: bullet train to nowhere
weekend watchlist: some much needed yet very realistic eco-optimism
Bullet Train movie review: total derailment
loaded question: what’s a thing from movies (or books or TV) that you absolutely believed as a kid?
weekly digest: in which I slowly return to work
weekend watchlist: rethinking monsters (of the sea) and munchkins (aka kids)
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris movie review: a fashion for kindness
loaded question: what’s your favorite cultural life hack?
almost through my COVID journey (I think)
looks like COVID has finally caught up with me...
loaded question: what movies can give us hope for a better future?
weekly digest: new beginnings, documentary and fictional
weekend watchlist: hacking capitalism
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande movie review: come as you are
The Book Keepers documentary review: a road trip through love and sorrow
loaded question: what is your ultimate comfort movie?
weekly digest: it was a week to write off
loaded question: what movie do you most associate with summer?
weekly digest: it’s okay to call this movie “total gibberish"
weekend watchlist: a couple of treasures for Pride Month
Nude Tuesday movie review: nonsense, not quite inspired (Tribeca Film Festival 2022)
loaded question: is nostalgia out of control?
weekly digest: I hated, hated, hated this movie...
weekend watchlist: country twang with a Scottish accent
Men movie review: if it walks like misogyny and squawks like misogyny…
loaded question: is fandom out of control?
weekly digest: one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen...
The Quiet Girl (An Cailin Ciuin) movie review: sweet summer child
weekend watchlist: two tales for Pride Month that cry out for simple human acceptance
loaded question: what are the best movies about taking a day off?
weekly digest: when even the escapism isn't very escapist...
Top Gun: Maverick movie review: we’re well into the danger zone
loaded question: what are some films with good representation of people with disabilities?
weekend watchlist: the plot to trick Hitler
classic film virgin: Top Gun (1986)
loaded question: what episodic stuff are you bingeing, and why should we watch it?
weekly digest: TFW you're a woman who just doesn't want kids
weekend watchlist: a movie worth paying premium VOD prices for
My So-Called Selfish Life documentary review: TFW you lack that certain “maternal instinct”
weekly digest: an intense new French drama depicts the history about to repeat itself
weekend watchlist: a timely cure for collective cultural amnesia
Happening (L’événement) movie review: the history about to repeat itself
loaded question: what are your favorite movies that mess with time?
weekly digest: two movies take us into the past, when everyone knew their place...
weekend watchlist: coming to terms with grief personal and societal
Downton Abbey: A New Era movie review: should we improve society somewhat, or nah?
The Yellow Wallpaper movie review: gaslight but no heat
loaded question: what movie are you dying to see?
weekly digest: Nicolas Cage as Nic(k) Cage is exactly what you think it will be...
weekend watchlist: the unbearable wait for massive success
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent movie review: Cage, staged
loaded question: how much longer can the superhero paradigm dominate movies… and what’s next?
weekly digest: I review two documentaries, both Movies for the Resistance
Theirs Is the Kingdom documentary review: art is not a luxury
weekend watchlist: a prophetic dystopia (that is also rather comforting)
Navalny documentary review: celebrating the biggest pain in Putin’s ass
loaded question: what’s the best movie ever about magic?
weekly digest: animated mayhem suitable for kids and adults alike
weekend watchlist: an unclassifiable exploration of the need for human connection
The Bad Guys movie review: criminally fun
loaded question: what does film criticism mean to you in 2022?
weekly digest: a new Michael Bay movie and a stonking head cold lay me low...
weekend watchlist: nature bites back in an unsettling folk-horror fairy tale
Ambulance movie review: dead on arrival
loaded question: what’s your favorite Oscar Best Picture?
weekly digest: website admin prevails
my picks for tonight’s 94th Academy Awards (winners indicated)
weekend watchlist: the warring voices inside women's heads
new bonus for paying subscribers
loaded question: what movie do you most associate with springtime?
weekly digest: Ukrainian drama ‘Olga’ gets a fundraising UK release...
weekend watchlist: where to stream (almost) every Oscar nominee
Olga movie review: coming out swinging for Ukraine
loaded question: how much do Oscar nominations or wins affect your desire to see a film?
weekly digest: Zac Efron strikes gold (and it strikes back)
Gold movie review: dust in the wind
weekend watchlist: before she invented Anna, she was the assistant
loaded question: what comic book or comic-book character deserves a big-screen adaptation?
weekly digest: a noir mystery and an eco-disaster (bit grim for our times, sorry!)
The Batman movie review: to bat, or not to bat
The Burning Sea (Nordsjøen) movie review: nightmare (fossil) fuel
weekly digest: making Flick Filosopher as privacy-friendly as possible
weekend watchlist: a documentary about Ukraine that Putin probably should have watched
Cyrano movie review: out of tune
loaded question: which celebrity would you cast as which current or historical figure in a biopic?
weekly digest: wacky road trips and murderous river cruises...
weekend watchlist: hidden mushrooms, lost civilizations, and true love
Death on the Nile movie review: Kenneth Branagh steps in the same river twice
loaded question: what’s the most romantic movie you’ve ever seen?
weekly digest: Liam Neeson needs rescuing...
weekend watchlist: building a house, going into space...
loaded question: what’s the hardest or longest you’ve ever cried at a movie or TV show?
weekly digest: two documentaries about women getting it done
weekend watchlist: a bad guy and a worse guy walk into a jail...
movies for the resistance: ‘Maxima’ and ‘Mothers of the Revolution’
loaded question: have you ever been so angry at a movie’s trailer that you wanted to sue the studio?
weekly digest: awards season heads into the home stretch
weekend watchlist: the stunning movie about race in America that is both subversive and universal
loaded question: what movie that you love would you change the ending of, and how?
weekly digest: I finally review one of the best films of 2021 (and it’s on Netflix)
weekend watchlist: a small lie spirals way out of control
loaded question: what historical event needs a movie devoted to it?
weekend watchlist: a stark new adaptation of Macbeth; more...
loaded question: does Disney animation belong in the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
weekly digest: new ways to find more movies to watch!
weekend watchlist: the not-to-be-missed restaurant drama ‘Boiling Point’; more
loaded question: what 2022 film are you most looking forward to?
weekly digest: I'm not letting Christmas movies go yet
festive cheer: a calm and cozy romance to ease into the new year
festive cheer: a melancholy film about embracing everyday life