Cat Person movie review: her too
The cringe of modern relationships stinks up this antiromance. Its bald truths, all but ignored in pop culture, about how women navigate romantic and sexual relationships with men, demand to be heard.
Month: October 2023
daily scream: gnaw your own arm off, why don’t you?
2010’s 127 Hours is on Prime in the US, Disney+ in the UK (and lots of other services, too).
daily scream: the movie that made a screening room full of critics whimper
2005’s The Descent is on Max in the US and Prime in the UK (and other services, too).
daily scream: this ultimate horror movie works on levels you didn’t even know existed
2012’s The Cabin in the Woods is on Max in the US, Sky Cinema in the UK (and lots of other services!).
daily scream: regrets — massive regrets — only
2016’s The Invitation is on Shudder on both sides of the Atlantic (and plenty other services, too!).
daily scream: shorn of the dead
2007’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is on Paramount+ in the US, Prime in the UK.
daily scream: the only vampire feminist spaghetti western
2014’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is on Kanopy in the US, Studiocanal Presents in the UK.
daily scream: urban legends, modern horrors
2021’s Candyman is on Prime in the US, BBC iPlayer in the UK.
loaded question: how do we reinvent cinema in the streaming age?
What might reinvented cinema look like? What kinds of stories might cinema tell that it hasn’t been in recent years, or ever? Where do we go from here?
new Flick Filosopher strand: 21st-century science fiction
I’ve been teasing this for a while, and it’s finally here: a new section at Flick Filosopher examining science fiction films of the 21st century and what the genre has to say about humanity now that we’re living in science-fictional times.
