new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Sep 27
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening US/Can Sep 27
Jill Culton writes and codirects Abominable; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Sep 27
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Sep 27
Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang direct documentary One Child Nation; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Sep 24–27
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Sep 23–28
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
Official Secrets movie review: blow all the whistles
Not a spy thriller but a story of emotional and intellectual suspense wrangling with matters of patriotism and of conscience, and of just how far journalism’s watchdog role can and should take it.
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Sep 20
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening US/Can Sep 18–20
Tuva Novotny directs Swedish dramedy Britt-Marie Was Here, starring Pernilla August; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Sep 17–20
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
Corporate Animals movie review: work is hell
Corporate culture gets a delightfully twisted kick in the ass when a “team-building retreat” turns disastrous. As horror vies with comedy, the pitch(black)-perfect cast gets the balance just right.
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Sep 18–20
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Sep 20
Lulu Wang writes and directs dramedy The Farewell, starring Awkwafina; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Sep 16–20
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
Downton Abbey movie review: embarrassment of riches
Wherein the working class revels in servitude, and wealth and privilege are deserved. Deeply reactionary and unlikely to please anyone not already enamored of the show. I get Anglophilia, but really?
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.
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