Sitemap - 2023 - Flick Filosopher
daily stream: welcome to the new year’s revolution...
daily stream: no place like home for the apocalypse
daily stream: cheerfully bonkers B-movie Christmas melodrama
daily stream: why does a movie about depressed writers feel festive? I try to explain...
daily stream: you’d better watch out — no, *really*...
daily stream: a celebratory movie for when you want to feel festive but not Christmassy
weekly digest: including a holiday discount on subscriptions
daily stream: the political power and religious delusion of the US–Israel relationship
daily stream: the Israeli men in charge of policing Palestine
daily stream: traveling hopefully to Palestine
loaded question: are three-hour-plus movies damaging to the overall entertainment environment?
(two) weekly digest: though all from two weeks ago...
taking a little break till mid next week
Maestro movie review: changing the tune, masterfully (London Film Festival)
daily stream: secret romance among freedom fighters
Godzilla Minus One movie review: the horrors of the past, reconsidered
daily stream: the West Bank we don’t see on the news
daily stream: in there any common ground to be found between Palestine and Israel?
daily stream: smashing stereotypes in Palestinian courtrooms
loaded question: what’s a perfect cosy movie for long dark winter evenings?
weekly digest: am I back for realsies? maybe?
daily stream: the official beginning of Yuletide (I don’t make the rules)
Dream Scenario movie review: (un)likely boogeyman
daily stream: crime under cover of giant Thanksgiving balloons
daily stream: Thanksgiving the Native American way
daily stream: an extremely unhappy Thanksgiving
daily stream: stirring some extra stress into the cranberry sauce
loaded question: what is your secret pop-culture shame?
weekly digest: another slow week for me...
daily stream: if you give a mouse a global entertainment empire...
daily stream: desperate women, desperate measures
daily stream: don’t tell Grandma she’s dying?
loaded question: do you remember how you filled your time before smartphones?
weekly digest: those musical trolls are back...
daily stream: finding necessary purpose in elderhood
daily stream: how can you find yourself when you don’t even know who you are?
Trolls Band Together movie review: cheerful kindness, weirdified
daily stream: a progressive voice from a century ago, back from the memory-hole
daily stream: running away to start their own circus
daily stream: dangerous science, dangerous men
weekly digest: are these weekly digests useful/valuable/interesting to you?
daily stream: remember, remember the fifth of November...
daily stream: modern noir with Jason Statham and his best kind of costar
daily stream: drop out, tune in (the degree program)
did you enjoy the Daily Screams? should I do more themed Daily Stream recommendations?
daily scream: how to fill the gaping hole inside now that Halloween is over
loaded question: what’s the scariest scene ever in a movie that isn’t considered horror?
daily scream: the dread of a future you can’t see
weekly digest: reviews of two new movies... but which one is more horrific?
daily scream: meta horror about how scary movies infect us
daily scream: when the silence of the lamb is horrifying
When Evil Lurks (Cuando acecha la maldad) movie review: what rough beast…
daily scream: sexy scary vampire? hell yes!
daily scream: haunted, and haunting...
daily scream: coldly elegant postapocalyptic misery
loaded question: what’s a music album that you fear not enough people realize is perfect?
daily scream: flesh and blood... so much blood
Killers of the Flower Moon movie review: blood for oil (London Film Festival 2023)
weekly digest: scary stuff to stream for Halloween
daily scream: hell is full, 21st-century style
daily scream: when we ordinary mortals are the monsters
daily scream: is there someone inside you?
Foe movie review: scenes from an apocalyptic marriage (London Film Festival 2023)
daily scream: when ghosts of the past still haunt the present
daily scream: end-of-life nightmare despair
loaded question: what are the all-time great movie endings?
weekly digest: so many daily screams for spooky season...
Cat Person movie review: her too
daily scream: gnaw your own arm off, why don’t you?
daily scream: the movie that made a screening room full of critics whimper
daily scream: this ultimate horror movie works on levels you didn’t even know existed
daily scream: regrets — massive regrets — only
daily scream: shorn of the dead
daily scream: the only vampire feminist spaghetti western
daily scream: urban legends, modern horrors
loaded question: how do we reinvent cinema in the streaming age?
weekly digest: bingeing London Film Festival
new Flick Filosopher strand: 21st-century science fiction
The Creator movie review: meat versus metal
loaded question: what young actor (of any gender) working today could be the next great action star?
weekly digest: a bit of unintended “time travel”
daily stream: a robot who wants to be a real boy
daily stream: TFW the ETs are just kinda annoying and in the way
daily stream: is this the way the world ends?
daily stream: a girl and her alien robot car
Brother movie review: who gets away with being reckless
daily stream: discovering humanity in the face of aliens
daily stream: ironically, the best videogame movie ever
loaded question: who’s your favorite film director, and why?
weekly digest: another slow week chez moi
daily stream: our nightmarish impact on planet Earth
daily stream: TFW a film is incredibly depressing but honestly really great, too
daily stream: stunningly accomplished space survival adventure
daily stream: one reason to marry your best friend...
daily stream: just another Scorsese masterpiece
loaded question: what’s your dream actor/director pairing, and what kind of movie would they make?
weekly digest: no reviews, alas; some admin
daily stream: a cozy mystery full of comedy, suspense, and feminism
daily stream: a perception-altering movie
daily stream: if you’re enjoying ‘The Bear,’ you might like this
daily stream: the muse’s tale... from her own perspective
loaded question: what are some great movies about underappreciated women in history?
weekly digest: two reviews! (go me!)
My Animal movie review: out of the wilderness (and into a bigger one)
The Dive movie review: don’t hold your breath
daily stream: condemned to repeat the past, etc...
daily stream: a rare genuine onscreen everywoman
daily stream: where dogs are the equals of humans
daily stream: smashing bigotry and creating solidarity
loaded question: what are some great movies about unions and the fight for workers’ rights?
weekly digest: a movie about a girl, and a girl (me!) about movies
more bad news: RIP my uncle, John Benton-Harris
daily stream: tastes like chicken...
daily stream: in case you need more dramatic Robert Downey Jr., post ‘Oppenheimer’
daily stream: girls just wanna slay (emotional) monsters
Scrapper movie review: girlhood interrupted
weekly digest: finally wrote about ‘Oppenheimer,’ and barely scratched its surface
daily stream: attend a delightfully nasty little soiree with Cillian Murphy (and others)
daily stream: the ethics of war on a nuclear-armed planet
Oppenheimer movie review: a particle of concern, a wave of complicity
loaded question: what location-specific cultural event would you love to travel to?
weekly digest: a review, some streaming recs, wish it was more...
daily stream: crime as just another form of capitalism
daily stream: when you hit the gym and the gym hits back
daily stream: maybe Mars *is* the kind of place to raise your kids...
Paris Memories (Revoir Paris) movie review: healing after horror
loaded question: what death scene from a movie or TV show haunts you?
weekly digest: it wasn’t a good week...
daily stream: Hamlet, but make it angry and green
daily stream: Llewyn is the cat...
loaded question: what are the greatest one-word catchphrases in pop-culture history?
weekly digest: getting back into the swing of things
daily stream: Christopher Nolan’s other WWII movie
daily stream: meet Putin’s worst nightmare, Alexei Navalny
daily stream: Sinéad O’Connor was right about the Catholic Church
daily stream: a taboo-smashing feminist horror black comedy about pregnancy
loaded question: is IMAX worth the premium upgrade?
many-weekly digest: I really am back now, for realsies
Sympathy for the Devil movie review: schtick the landing
Mavka: The Forest Song movie review: the dark of the woods comes too late
daily stream: a portrait of the incomparable Sinéad O’Connor
behind the scenes: I am unmoored and paralyzed by polycrisis
daily stream: Gerard Butler goes a'haunting
daily stream: snappy cinematic junk food to distract from terrible reality
daily stream: the global-warming truth gets more inconvenient by the day
loaded question: what are some good movies about resilience and bouncing back from adversity?
my long nightmare may be coming to a middle (continued)
my long nightmare may be coming to a middle
daily stream: a darkly funny, deliciously feminist revisionist Western
loaded question: what movies depict introverts well?
daily stream: spirituality without the supernatural
weekly digest: a week later and reviews short
daily stream: one of the best films about modern motherhood I’ve ever seen
daily stream: a grownup couple and their realistic romance
daily stream: the other cabin-in-the-woods movie
daily stream: a beautifully accomplished portrait of untoxic masculinity
daily stream: a doggone-good modern classic comedy
loaded question: what movies and/or TV series have standout opening credits?
What’s Love Got to Do with It? movie review: the boy next door, and a world away
loaded question: what are the cheeriest, happiest movies you’ve ever seen?
weekly digest: turns out I was not back :-(
daily stream: a marginalized rapper goes home and goes big
daily stream: undercover, without a clue
daily stream: meet the most extreme tourists on Earth
behind the scenes: I’ve never been so low
loaded question: what’s the best-ever pop-culture product placement?
weekly digest: am I back? maybe!
daily stream: a sister act in the smartest sort of chick flick
daily stream: it's unholy how much I love this movie
Renfield movie review: it mostly sucks
Rare Objects movie review: broken things, on the mend
daily stream: no, the Devil did not make them do it
The Pope’s Exorcist movie review: ham and cheese on why?
daily stream: the most beautiful movie of 2022
loaded question: what are the best standalone episodes in TV shows with big arcs or mythologies?
weekly digest: how to blow up your personal paradigm?
daily stream: end of an era for journalism and publishing
daily stream: while you're waiting to learn how to blow up a pipeline...
How to Blow Up a Pipeline movie review: it means the earth to them
daily stream: when the world pushes men to ridiculous displays of masculinity
daily stream: Hong Chau, very small before she got very big
daily stream: say hello to his boomstick
loaded question: what great comic actors have turned out to be even better dramatic actors?
weekly digest: daily streams now also getting posted to Flick Filosopher
Dungeons & Dragons: Hono(u)r Among Thieves movie review: dudgeon and draggin’
daily stream: a pandemic perfect cinematic storm
daily stream: an inspiring portrait of a trans girl asking only to be herself
daily stream: recovering from childhood, with a buddy
daily stream: a house that love builds (with a lot of help)
daily stream: how watching affects the watchers
daily stream: whistleblowing in a warmongering dystopia (a true story)
loaded question: what’s something that, as a film nerd, you’re embarrassed to admit?
weekly digest: I was extremely absent last week, sorry about that...
loaded question: would you go to a pub or bar that showed movies (instead of sports)?
daily stream: a hardboiled noir with deadly dancing
weekly digest: can I make the #DailyStream recommendations even better?
daily stream: art and life as an active joy
daily stream: Pedro Pascal does a science (fiction) while looking after a kid (again)
daily stream: he didn't kill his wife but the law doesn't care
65 movie review: dino droppings
daily stream: a brutal condemnation of culturally condoned killing
daily stream: the best-ever Star Trek movie (that isn’t a Star Trek movie)
daily stream: an outrageously violent, outrageously funny apocalypse
loaded question: what’s your favorite Irish-related film or movie tidbit?
daily stream: a movie star who oozes off the screen and snuggles up to you
weekly digest: in which I continue to struggle
my picks for tonight’s 95th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2022’s films) (winners indicated)
daily stream: here a kitty, there a kitty, everywhere a kitty-kitty
daily stream: a bleak and brutal anti-rom-com
daily stream: (re)discover the mysterious work of a pioneering woman artist
daily stream: Clive Owen’s writer haunts me
daily stream: a Hollywood satire that avoids easy laughs
loaded question: what casual video games can you recommend at the moment?
weekly digest: a relentless ticking-clock thriller (on screens and in my head)
daily stream: a quirky western that robustly smashes toxic masculinity
daily stream: if you can't get to the multiplex this weekend...
daily stream: the power of personal demons
Full Time (À plein temps) movie review: mother of invention
daily stream: the most likable Sharon Stone has ever been onscreen?
daily stream: when family ties become a long con
daily stream: the classic modern example of *cinema du serpent*
loaded question: if you could have a Lego set of anything, what would it be?
weekly digest: in which I knock the cabin movie
Knock at the Cabin movie review: there appears to be an apocalypse happening
daily stream: badass old ladies FTW
daily stream: essential background for understanding Ukraine's backbone
daily stream: the monsters are due...
daily stream: what is war good for? profit! (say it again)
daily stream: food and wine and the projects that sustain a gal
weekly digest: another slow week, now with head cold
daily stream: the first BAFTA Best Film (which also won the Oscar Best Picture that year)
daily stream: don’t win the lottery — work it
daily stream: women seeing women, and women being seen
Blue Jean movie review: cowardice and bravery as matters of survival
daily stream: insidious fast-food deliciousness
daily stream: my most-romantic-movie-ever
daily stream: a completely marvelous musical mystery
loaded question: what are some great anti–Valentine’s Day movies?
weekly digest: slow times for me in the pre-Oscar doldrums
daily stream: one for the Nikolaj Coster-Waldau fangirls (like me)
Magic Mike’s Last Dance movie review: hustle and grind
daily stream: a Pedro Pascal flick you’ve maybe never seen
daily stream: a warning from the distant future
daily stream: a forgotten action-adventure masterpiece of the early 2000s
daily stream: girls give screaming voice to adolescent angst
daily stream: will movie FX lead the way to a dystopian future?
loaded question: what’s a movie that’s crammed with clichés but feels like it isn’t?
weekly digest: you didn’t miss much at Flick Filosopher, but I was busy nevertheless
behind the scenes: why I am such a huge honking disaster right now
daily stream: a crime noir Outback Western
daily stream: get your recommended daily allowance of Mads Mikkelsen
daily stream: eat the rich... literally?
daily stream: the tale of a singing teen who “got some shit to express”
daily stream: the family that steals together...
daily stream: how not to get caught
daily stream: everyone’s workplace should be this warm and happy
loaded question: what’s your first memory of seeing a movie in a cinema?
weekly digest: awards awards awards
daily stream: a movie about faith, yet without sanctimony
Plane movie review: ‘Sully,’ but make it badass
daily stream: wherein George Clooney revels in “simulated hospitality”
FYI: I’ve restarted paid subscriptions
daily stream: are you ready for some football?
daily stream: don’t look down?
daily stream: is this Tom Cruise's best performance ever?
weekly digest: an actual review! and a bit more!
daily stream: the must-see abortion drama of the moment
daily stream: the movie Tom Hanks thinks we don’t talk about enough
A Man Called Otto movie review: a rare misfire for Tom Hanks
daily stream: it plays like Spinal Tap, but this rock doc is the real deal
daily stream: hey you guys! ‘The Goonies’ expires from UK Prime in 10 days!
daily stream: the true tale of journalist Maria Ressa's battle against authoritarianism
daily stream: good friends help you move bodies
loaded question: what video game would you like to see adapted for film or TV?
weekly digest: only a couple of links, but also announcing something new(ish)
daily stream: Keira Knightley gets the royal treatment...
loaded question: what’s the worst movie you saw in 2022?
weekly digest: well, I’m back...
loaded question: what 2023 films are you most looking forward to?