MaryAnn’s quick take: Unfunny action comedy can’t even pull off sloppy Yuletide kitsch. The anti-chemistry among Red One’s likable stars is “bested” only by the ugly CGI. Have some light festive violence — you know, for kids! Read the review…
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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.movies for the resistance
How to Blow Up a Pipeline movie review: it means the earth to them - A heist drama, incendiary and intense, with planetary stakes. These young people are desperate, with nothing to lose, and everyone older than them made them this way. Nihilism is their only optimism.21st-century sci-fi
Robot Dreams movie review: sighs of the machines - 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.streaming watchlist
curated cinema: what it means to kill - 2014’s Blue Ruin is streaming on Prime and Tubi in the US; not streaming in the UK (sorry).classic film virgin
classic film virgin: Top Gun (1986) - Cold War propaganda that is weirdly apolitical. Sunny, breezy homoeroticism that is surely unintentional. What a hoot this is! Mostly not in a good way, but its impact on pop culture cannot be denied.sponsored
FlickFilosopher.com now accepting sponsored posts - On an extremely limited and highly selective basis. I have worked long and diligently to earn and keep the respect of my readers, and I am not willing to lose that.maryann’s news…
- I’m back on movie podcast Ribbon of Memes, talking about ‘Midsommar’
- new Flick Filosopher WhatsApp channel
- I’m on the Strong Women – Strange Worlds Zoom Fri Nov 01
- I’m guesting once more on movie podcast Ribbon of Memes
- announcing the Alliance of Women Film Journalists’ Win With Women Movie Giveaway
- TFW your site is accidentally valuable, or: why sponsored posts now?
- FlickFilosopher.com now accepting sponsored posts
- behold the Beyond the Sight & Sound Canon (I’m one of the critic contributors)
- Loaded Question taking a break for a while
- my picks for tonight’s 96th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2023’s films) (winners indicated)
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- Red One movie review: a very copaganda Christmas
- I’m back on movie podcast Ribbon of Memes, talking about ‘Midsommar’
- Blitz movie review: the unraveling of propaganda
- curated cinema: what it means to kill
- curated cinema: a Method to the bloodsucking madness
- curated cinema: it’s all funny-scary eldritch atmosphere
- curated cinema: the fear and rage of being human
- curated cinema: home is where the ill wind blows
- curated cinema: the monster in the basement is your pain
- Your Monster movie review: embrace the beast
- curated cinema: the woods are just trees, right? *gulp*
- new Flick Filosopher WhatsApp channel
- I’m on the Strong Women – Strange Worlds Zoom Fri Nov 01
- curated cinema: fresh horror and fresh humanity in a stale subgenre
- curated cinema: the wit and wisdom of Maggie Smith (and her friends)