new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Sep 13
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening US/Can Sep 13
Lorene Scafaria directs crime drama Hustlers, starring Constance Wu and Jennifer Lopez; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Sep 13
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Sep 13
Lorene Scafaria directs crime drama Hustlers, starring Constance Wu and Jennifer Lopez; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
Phoenix (Føniks) movie review: but will she rise again?
This Norwegian family drama, tinged with fantasy and horror, depicts a teen girl’s emotional turmoil through fantastical, yet oddly pragmatic, reveries. Newcomer Ylva Bjørkaas Thedin is heartbreaking.
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Sep 10
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Sep 09
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
new fantasy flash fiction: “Wings Are Not Only for Birds”
A teaser for the story inside, plus some more info on this project and a plea for your financial support for it (and for all my work).
Hustlers movie review: with hearts of steel
GoodFellas, except they’re gals. A cinematic bonbon of delinquent deliciousness that easily wraps us up in charmed complicity. And the exquisite lack of a male gaze means it’s never salacious.
today is the 22nd anniversary of Flick Filosopher
On this day in 1997, I launched Flick Filosopher. Not many movie sites that were online in 1997 are still around. But me, like a fool? Still here.
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Sep 06
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening US/Can Sep 06
Chelsea Stardust directs horror comedy Satanic Panic, starring Hayley Griffith; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Sep 06
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Sep 06: NONE
A weekend on which no movies written by men, directed by men, or about men open is inconceivable. But someone tell me again how women’s representation onscreen isn’t an issue.
I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” again, Saturday, September 7th
They like me — they really like me! — at “The Arts Hour” on the BBC World Service radio experience.
Mrs Lowry & Son movie review: portrait of the artist as an abused man
A study of the painter LS Lowry that, with sly whimsy and darkness, finds a universality of the creative psyche via the toxic relationship with his mother, who tried (unsuccessfully) to crush him.
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Sep 03–06
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Sep 02
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
It: Chapter Two movie review: it doesn’t float
A bigger misfire than its predecessor, and a waste of a great cast. Unsupportably overlong, with a feel-good self-care denouement that’s almost dangerous. The only terrifying thing here is the tedium.
movie-related flash-fiction freebie: “Disney Dystopia”
“Hey, so you wanna go to the disneys tonight?”
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Aug 30
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening US/Can Aug 30
Hannah Pearl Utt directs, writes, and stars in, with cowriter Jen Tullock, comedy Before You Know It; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Aug 30
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Aug 30
Joanna Hogg directs drama The Souvenir, starring Honor Swinton Byrne and costarring Tilda Swinton; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
Chambers_ immersive dining experience — the review
An interactive story-driven culinary adventure that’s like being dropped into a Doctor Who–esque spacetime unknown. Weird, wonderful, sometimes unnerving. An intriguingly odd sensory odyssey.
new science-fiction flash fiction: “Festival of Flight”
A teaser for the story inside, plus some more info on this project and a plea for your financial support for it (and for all my work).
I geek out over the films I’m psyched for, Autumn 2019
Exclusively for Salt Lake City Weekly.
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Aug 27
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Aug 26–30
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
Angel Has Fallen movie review: and it can’t get up
A sad retread of The Fugitive. Dumb, pointless, confused, full of contempt for its audience, and laughably unable to convince us that Gerard Butler is an acceptable stand-in for Harrison Ford.
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Aug 23
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening US/Can Aug 21–23
Catherine Dudley-Rose writes and directs drama Parallel Chords, starring Rachel Ann; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Aug 21–23
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Aug 23
Zoe Margaret Colletti costars in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark; very little more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Aug 20
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Aug 19–23
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Aug 13–16
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening US/Can Aug 14–16
Holly Gent cowrites mystery dramedy Where’d You Go, Bernadette, starring Cate Blanchett; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Aug 14–16
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Aug 16
Savannah Knoop cowrites docudrama J.T. Leroy, starring Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
Gwen movie review: a frisson of fright on the farm
Atmospheric mood — this is a dour nightmare in the stark gloom of 19th-century Wales — and a striking performance by Eleanor Worthington-Cox aren’t quite enough to sustain this near-horror film.
Brian Banks movie review: calling out corruption, mildly
There’s plenty injustice here to enrage the thinking, feeling citizen, but despite a passionate performance by charismatic Aldis Hodge, this docudrama is nowhere near incensed enough on his behalf.
The Angry Birds Movie 2 movie review: seeing red seeing Red
Painfully stupid faux-woke slapstick that wants to have its idiot male hero and its nods to feminism at the same time. Kids are listening, they are absorbing this garbage, and they deserve better. (now with a brief review of short “Hair Love”)
curated: going to the theater sounds as bad as going to the movies these days…
I’m flabbergasted. But not really, either.
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Aug 13–16
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Aug 12–16
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
Good Boys movie review: the razor edge of innocence
Much more sweet than raunchy, and surprisingly innocent. Genuinely kind to its young protagonists as they try to navigate a culture that doesn’t much care to protect them from growing up too soon.
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Aug 09
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening US/Can Aug 09
Andrea Berloff writes and directs The Kitchen, starring Elisabeth Moss, Melissa McCarthy, and Tiffany Haddish; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Aug 09
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
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