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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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RIP my mom

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

loaded question: what cool stuff are you watching / reading / listening to / playing / enjoying right now?

weekend watchlist: sweet, funny, frank pillow talk

Blackbird movie review: Michael “Riverdance” Flatley flatfoots his way into filmmaking

loaded question: what loaded question — about movies, TV, pop culture in general — would you like to put to Flick Filosopher readers?

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?

weekly digest: I check out a classic for the first time (ahead of the release of its long-time-coming sequel)

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”

loaded question: what entertainment expenses, if any, are you cutting back on in our financially tight times?

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

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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!)

weekend watchlist: a masterpiece celebrates its 15th anniversary, with an unexpected connection to a new release

The Batman movie review: to bat, or not to bat

The Burning Sea (Nordsjøen) movie review: nightmare (fossil) fuel

loaded question: have apocalyptic movies lulled us into a false sense of security about climate change?

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

Dog movie review: magic mutt

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?

weekly digest: just look up!

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