curated cinema: fresh horror and fresh humanity in a stale subgenre
2016’s The Girl with All the Gifts is on Prime and Apple TV in the US and the UK.
Year: 2024
curated cinema: the wit and wisdom of Maggie Smith (and her friends)
2018’s Tea with the Dames (aka Nothing Like a Dame) is on Kanopy in the US, BBC iPlayer in the UK.
I’m guesting once more on movie podcast Ribbon of Memes
I join hosts RogerBW and Nick Marsh to talk about the early 1990s trilogy Three Colours.
Lee movie review: the things she saw, and the way she saw them
It barely scratches the surface of the enormous audacity of WWII photographer Lee Miller, but still this is an important movie. It’s also joyous filmmaking, with terrific performances all around.
curated cinema: a little gem from early this year is new on Netflix
2024’s Wicked Little Letters is streaming on Netflix in the US and the UK.
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.
curated cinema: a quarter of a century later, a movie that we can now see as a drama about climate-change
2000’s The Perfect Storm is on Paramount+ in the US, Prime in the UK (and other services, too).
Twisters movie review: no winds of change blowing here
Hooray for Glen Powell’s star rising, but this absurdly coy movie — is it a sequel? a remake? — is a cowardly, reckless missed opportunity: it’s deeply baffling that it omits any hint of global warming.
curated cinema: a doc to help understand the nightmare of the AT&T data breach
2016 documentary A Good American is on Kanopy in the US, Prime in the UK.
Kinds of Kindness movie review: twilight zones of contention
A mad monstrosity of a movie: absurdist, enigmatic, perverse. Lanthimos’s typical grotesque humor is on full display. Yay for a film that actually attempts to capture how insane the world is today?
