daily stream: an extremely unhappy Thanksgiving
2013’s Prisoners is on Netflix on both sides of the Atlantic.
Month: November 2023
daily stream: stirring some extra stress into the cranberry sauce
2003’s Pieces of April is on Max in the US, Prime in the UK.
loaded question: what is your secret pop-culture shame?
Similar to a question I asked early this year, but I’m testing the Net algorithms to see how the word shame performs… which might as well be my pop-culture shame…
daily stream: if you give a mouse a global entertainment empire…
1928’s “Steamboat Willie” is streaming globally on Disney+.
daily stream: desperate women, desperate measures
2008’s Frozen River is on Hulu in the US, BFI Player in the UK.
daily stream: don’t tell Grandma she’s dying?
2019’s The Farewell is new on Netflix in the US, on Prime in the UK.
loaded question: do you remember how you filled your time before smartphones?
Was it a horrible exercise in stewing, sulking, or despairing nothingness?
daily stream: finding necessary purpose in elderhood
2020’s The Mole Agent is on Hulu and Kanopy in the US, BFI Player and Dogwoof on Demand in the UK.
daily stream: how can you find yourself when you don’t even know who you are?
2017’s Lady Bird leaves BBC iPlayer in the UK soon; on Kanopy and Netflix in the US.
Trolls Band Together movie review: cheerful kindness, weirdified
There is gentle nonstop chaos in the trippy candy-colored assault. Genuinely good-natured, sweet without being sappy, more strange (in a good way) than kids’ movies usually are, and hard to dislike.
