daily stream: maybe Mars *is* the kind of place to raise your kids…
2020’s Proxima is on Kanopy in the US, BFI Player in the UK.
Month: August 2023
Paris Memories (Revoir Paris) movie review: healing after horror
A deeply humane, delicately constructed journey through trauma and recovery that cuts like a knife and soothes like a hug, somehow, miraculously, managing both bundles of feeling at the same time.
loaded question: what death scene from a movie or TV show haunts you?
My pick is from the early 1990s British crime drama series Cracker, in which Robbie Coltrane played a criminal psychologist. The character whose death haunts me is [spoiler]…
daily stream: Hamlet, but make it angry and green
2003’s Hulk is on Hulu in the US, and on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic.
daily stream: Llewyn is the cat…
2013’s Inside Llewyn Davis is on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic.
loaded question: what are the greatest one-word catchphrases in pop-culture history?
I got Ted Lasso’s “Believe,” Homer Simpson’s “Doh!” and the Fonz’s “Ayyyyy!” What others are there?
daily stream: Christopher Nolan’s other WWII movie
2017’s Dunkirk leaves US Netflix soon; on Prime in the UK.
daily stream: meet Putin’s worst nightmare, Alexei Navalny
2022 doc Navalny is on Max in the US, Curzon Home Cinema in the UK.
daily stream: Sinéad O’Connor was right about the Catholic Church
2013’s Philomena is streaming on Prime in the US, and on Disney+ in the UK.
daily stream: a taboo-smashing feminist horror black comedy about pregnancy
2017’s Prevenge is streaming on Shudder in the US, Prime in the UK.
