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loaded question: do you remember how you filled your time before smartphones?

Mon, Nov 13, 2023
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Was it a horrible exercise in stewing, sulking, or despairing nothingness?

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daily stream: finding necessary purpose in elderhood

Sun, Nov 12, 2023
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2020’s The Mole Agent is on Hulu and Kanopy in the US, BFI Player and Dogwoof on Demand in the UK.

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daily stream: how can you find yourself when you don’t even know who you are?

Sat, Nov 11, 2023
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2017’s Lady Bird leaves BBC iPlayer in the UK soon; on Kanopy and Netflix in the US.

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Trolls Band Together movie review: cheerful kindness, weirdified

Fri, Nov 10, 2023
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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.

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daily stream: a progressive voice from a century ago, back from the memory-hole

Fri, Nov 10, 2023
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2017’s The Lost City of Z is on Prime in the US, Netflix in the UK.

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daily stream: running away to start their own circus

Thu, Nov 09, 2023
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2018’s Even When I Fall is on Kanopy in the US, Prime in the UK.

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daily stream: dangerous science, dangerous men

Wed, Nov 08, 2023
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2006’s The Prestige leaves UK Prime soon; on Paramount+ in the US.

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loaded question: what are the best movies about resistance to oppression, repression, and colonialism?

Mon, Nov 06, 2023
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Apropos of, oh, nothing at all that might be in the news at the moment (Free Palestine!)…

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daily stream: remember, remember the fifth of November…

Sun, Nov 05, 2023
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2006’s V for Vendetta is on Prime and Max in the US, Prime and Apple TV in the UK.

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daily stream: modern noir with Jason Statham and his best kind of costar

Fri, Nov 03, 2023
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2012’s Safe is on Netflix on both sides of the Atlantic; stream on UK Prime for 11 more days.

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