loaded question: are American moviegoers getting more comfortable with subtitled films?
Apparently folks are watching everything with subtitles on, even shows and movies in English, for a variety of reasons. Could that be a contributing factor?
daily stream: a society of the snow… with wolves
2012’s The Grey is on Max in the US, Prime in the UK.
daily stream: a one-man society of the snow
2019’s Arctic is on Netflix in the US, Prime in the UK (and other services, too).
Society of the Snow (La sociedad de la nieve) movie review: cold hard crash
A stark, haunting adventure, viscerally terrifying, full of despair, informed by the moral and philosophical quandaries of what it takes to sustain oneself in body and spirit in impossible conditions.
AWFJ 2023 EDA Awards winners announced
The Zone of Interest, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Barbie are the big winners.
50% off your first year as a Substack subscriber (extended through January 31st)
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Joyous Festivus, Cheerful Winterfair, and all that.
daily stream: welcome to the new year’s revolution…
2014’s Snowpiercer is on Hulu and Netflix in the US, Lionsgate+ and Mubi in the UK (and other services too).
daily stream: no place like home for the apocalypse
2021’s Silent Night is on AMC+ in the US, Prime in the UK, and other services as well.
daily stream: cheerfully bonkers B-movie Christmas melodrama
1940’s Beyond Christmas (aka Beyond Tomorrow) is in the public domain, and streaming at Internet Archive and on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic, and elsewhere too.
daily stream: why does a movie about depressed writers feel festive? I try to explain…
2000’s Wonder Boys is on Paramount+ in the US (and other services, too), and exclusively on BBC iPlayer in the UK.
