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.
Year: 2023
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.
daily stream: a progressive voice from a century ago, back from the memory-hole
2017’s The Lost City of Z is on Prime in the US, Netflix in the UK.
daily stream: running away to start their own circus
2018’s Even When I Fall is on Kanopy in the US, Prime in the UK.
daily stream: dangerous science, dangerous men
2006’s The Prestige leaves UK Prime soon; on Paramount+ in the US.
loaded question: what are the best movies about resistance to oppression, repression, and colonialism?
Apropos of, oh, nothing at all that might be in the news at the moment (Free Palestine!)…
daily stream: remember, remember the fifth of November…
2006’s V for Vendetta is on Prime and Max in the US, Prime and Apple TV in the UK.
