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Red One movie review: a very copaganda Christmas - FlickFilosopher.com
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Unfunny action comedy can’t even pull off sloppy Yuletide kitsch. The anti-chemistry among its likable stars is “bested” only by the ugly CGI. Have some light festive violence — you know, for kids!
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movies for the resistance - FlickFilosopher.com
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Film critic MaryAnn Johanson discusses movies that reflect the revolutionary spirit we will need to transform our broken world.
on Nov 6
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I’m back on movie podcast Ribbon of Memes, talking about ‘Midsommar’ - FlickFilosopher.com
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I join hosts RogerBW and Nick Marsh to talk about Ari Aster’s 2019 horror flick Midsommar.
on Nov 5
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Blitz movie review: the unraveling of propaganda - FlickFilosopher.com
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Picaresque childhood misadventures sketch vibrant WWII London. A movie of brutal randomness, feral intensity, and ferocious intimacy. Wildly human, artistically masterful, and completely magnificent.
on Nov 3
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curated cinema: what it means to kill - FlickFilosopher.com
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2014’s Blue Ruin is streaming on Prime and Tubi in the US; not streaming in the UK (sorry).
on Oct 29
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curated cinema: a Method to the bloodsucking madness - FlickFilosopher.com
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2000’s Shadow of the Vampire is on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic.
on Oct 28
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curated cinema: it’s all funny-scary eldritch atmosphere - FlickFilosopher.com
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2015’s Crimson Peak is streaming on Prime in the US, and available to rent or buy on Prime in the UK.
on Oct 27
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curated cinema: the fear and rage of being human - FlickFilosopher.com
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2016’s A Monster Calls is streaming on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic.
on Oct 26
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curated cinema: home is where the ill wind blows - FlickFilosopher.com
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2016’s Under the Shadow is on Netflix (and lots of other services) on both sides of the Atlantic.
on Oct 25
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curated cinema: the monster in the basement is your pain - FlickFilosopher.com
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2014’s The Babadook is on Netflix, and lots of other services, on both sides of the Atlantic.
on Oct 24
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Only Lovers Left Alive movie review: full-blooded - FlickFilosopher.com
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I want to live in this movie. I want to crawl inside it and curl up in its lap and stay there forever.
on Oct 24
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Your Monster movie review: embrace the beast - FlickFilosopher.com
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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.
on Oct 23
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curated cinema: the woods are just trees, right? *gulp* - FlickFilosopher.com
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2017’s The Ritual is on Netflix in the US, Prime in the UK.
on Oct 22
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I’m on the Strong Women - Strange Worlds Zoom Fri Nov 01 - FlickFilosopher.com
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I’ll be reading one of the pieces of flash fiction from my SF/F/horror collection Cultural Artifacts.
on Oct 21
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curated cinema: fresh horror and fresh humanity in a stale subgenre - FlickFilosopher.com
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2016’s The Girl with All the Gifts is on Prime and Apple TV in the US and the UK.
on Oct 21
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curated cinema: the wit and wisdom of Maggie Smith (and her friends) - FlickFilosopher.com
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2018’s Tea with the Dames (aka Nothing Like a Dame) is on Kanopy in the US, BBC iPlayer in the UK.
on Oct 18
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Lee movie review: the things she saw, and the way she saw them - FlickFilosopher.com
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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.
on Sep 25
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curated cinema: a little gem from early this year is new on Netflix - FlickFilosopher.com
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2024’s Wicked Little Letters is streaming on Netflix in the US and the UK.
on Aug 10
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Robot Dreams movie review: sighs of the machines - FlickFilosopher.com
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Immerse yourself in pure unalloyed joy with a sweet, deceptively simple carbon-silicon platonic romance. Even the poignant bittersweetness of this emotional roller coaster is affirming and uplifting.
on Aug 6
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2000’s The Perfect Storm is on Paramount+ in the US, Prime in the UK (and other services, too).
on Aug 5
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Twisters movie review: no winds of change blowing here - FlickFilosopher.com
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Hooray for Glen Powell’s star rising, but this absurdly coy movie -- is it a sequel? a remake? -- is a cowardly, reckless missed opportunity: it’s deeply baffling that it omits any hint of global warming.
on Aug 5
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Where Are the Women? rating criteria explained (updated!) - FlickFilosopher.com
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Supplementary explanations for my Where Are the Women? rating criteria.
on Jul 30
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curated cinema: a doc to help understand the nightmare of the AT&T data breach - FlickFilosopher.com
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2016 documentary A Good American is on Kanopy in the US, Prime in the UK.
on Jul 13
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Kinds of Kindness movie review: twilight zones of contention - FlickFilosopher.com
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A mad monstrosity of a movie: absurdist, enigmatic, perverse. Lanthimos’s typical grotesque humor is on full display. Yay for a film that actually attempts to capture how insane the world is today?
on Jun 25
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Win a subscription to Film Movement Plus, streaming a curated selection of acclaimed features from around the world, including festival prize winners, cult and arthouse classics, documentaries and more.
on Jun 11
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2020 documentary #Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump is streaming on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic, and also on library-streamer Kanopy in the US.
on Jun 5
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Pitch People documentary review: consumerist sideshow - FlickFilosopher.com
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The goofy-90s-cheese factor is high in this look at home-shopping TV hucksters, but any nostalgia is small and cheap. The chipper vibe is distasteful in a way it perhaps wasn’t in the booming 1990s.
on Jun 3
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IF movie review: a fantastical vibe in search of a story - FlickFilosopher.com
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Writer-director John Krasinski’s absolute desperation to whip up magical whimsy utterly fails. No matter how he tries to force enchantment into existence, this is more fever dream than flight of fancy.
on May 16
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Back to Black movie review: no justice for Amy Winehouse - FlickFilosopher.com
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Marisa Abela is very good as Amy Winehouse, the one saving grace of this cowardly biopic of the wild and wise musician, which hangs its subject out to dry just as the people closest to her did, too.
on May 16
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The Fall Guy movie review: stunt dribble - FlickFilosopher.com
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This mess isn’t as clever as it thinks it is, and wastes the small charms of the delicious chemistry between Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. Feels like they shot a dashed-off first draft of the script.
on May 6
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curated cinema: disruptive protest *works* (here’s the documentary proof) - FlickFilosopher.com
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2021 documentary Mothers of the Revolution is on Prime and Apple TV on both sides of the Atlantic.
on May 2
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curated cinema: because Harvey Weinstein can go f**k himself for a change - FlickFilosopher.com
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2020’s The Assistant is on Kanopy in the US, BFI Player in the UK (and on lots of other services on both sides of the Atlantic, too).
on Apr 25
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Nowhere Special movie review: a father’s final bittersweet task - FlickFilosopher.com
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Beautiful and heartbreaking. A beguiling portrait of love, grief, and the pragmatism that unites them, built up via tender moments of the most ordinary sort. James Norton’s performance is revelatory.
on Apr 25
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Astonishing: sometimes oddly beautiful but mostly like sci-fi horror. An anti-meditation nightmare, a call to arms if only we were ready to finally address our thoughtless impact on planet Earth.
on Apr 19
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Arcadian movie review: they mostly come at night, mostly - FlickFilosopher.com
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It exists safely within the vast subgenre of postcollapse afterscapes, but it does what it does well, with nicely drawn characters, a sense of cultural mythmaking, and freakishly unsettling creatures.
on Apr 16
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curated cinema: zombies with a ticket to ride - FlickFilosopher.com
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2016’s Train to Busan leaves US Netflix soon; on Studiocanal Presents in the UK (and lots of other services on both sides of the Atlantic).
on Apr 15
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The Trouble with Jessica movie review: mortgaged souls - FlickFilosopher.com
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The pleasures of this black comedy about London real estate and the hypocrisies of posh professionals lie in the terrific cast, especially Shirley Henderson, embodying entertainingly horrible people.
on Apr 12
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curated cinema: when fame kills art - FlickFilosopher.com
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The 2015 documentary Amy is on Max in the US and on Prime in the UK (and other services, too).
on Apr 11
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Civil War movie review: a craven view from nowhere - FlickFilosopher.com
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A spineless dystopian action drama that defaults to a dangerously irresponsible both-sides-ism; its pretense of “objectivity” is unfair to the journalist protagonists the film thinks it’s championing.
on Apr 10
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curated cinema: taking “Christian film” (but not Christians) down a notch - FlickFilosopher.com
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2020’s Faith Based is on Prime and Tubi in the US, wedotv in the UK (and other services, too).
on Apr 9
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Late Night with the Devil movie review: haunted by an AI specter - FlickFilosopher.com
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Uniquely fresh yet also deeply lodged in the history of cinematic horror, with a powerful breakout performance from David Dastmalchian. But its triumph is, ironically, marred by the use of “AI” “art.”
on Apr 9
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Wicked Little Letters movie review: the cheek is in the mail - FlickFilosopher.com
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An upending of the period costume drama that’s cheerfully indecent, gloriously naughty, and full of female rage at the expectations women operate under. Funny as hell and bursting with impudent energy.
on Apr 2
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curated cinema: a previous trip to Arrakis - FlickFilosopher.com
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1984’s Dune leaves UK Mubi in 6 days; it’s streaming on Max in the US.
on Mar 18
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Bloodshot movie review: bloodshit - FlickFilosopher.com
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Incoherent action sequences and strained sci-fi woo-woo can’t save a clueless mashup of Robocop, The Matrix, and Captain America that makes a mockery of its protagonist. Deeply terrible.
on Mar 12
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my picks for tonight’s 96th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2023’s films) - FlickFilosopher.com
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I make my annual educated guesses about which films will take the big prizes home tonight...
on Mar 10
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Dune: Part Two movie review: shifting sands - FlickFilosopher.com
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Ugly, outrageous, brutal, and cynical; a genuinely terrifying film about power and politics as religion and control. There is little escapism here; hits square in the social plexus of horrifying 2024.
on Mar 9
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What older movies might warrant a rethink, either to acknowledge their suitability to audiences of all ages or to restrict them to more discerning adults?
on Mar 1
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Madame Web movie review: absurdly tangled - FlickFilosopher.com
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A travesty of corporate cynicism. Its desperation to ride Spider-Man’s coattails is pathetic, but its convoluted, coincidence-laden nonsense is duller than you’d imagine: it’s not even so bad it’s fun.
on Mar 1