daily stream: a perception-altering movie
2015’s Anomalisa is on Kanopy in the US, Curzon Home Cinema in the UK.
now anyone can join my Patreon, for free!
This makes my Patreon almost exactly the same as my Substack. The only difference is that the Weekly Digest email goes out only via Substack.
daily stream: if you’re enjoying ‘The Bear,’ you might like this
2021’s Boiling Point leaves UK Netflix soon; on Kanopy in the US.
daily stream: the muse’s tale… from her own perspective
2009’s Bright Star is on Prime in the UK, but criminally streaming nowhere in the US.
loaded question: what are some great movies about underappreciated women in history?
And why aren’t there more of them? (Rhetorical question; we know why.) Do you know of a historical woman most of us have never heard of whom you’d love to see a movie about?
My Animal movie review: out of the wilderness (and into a bigger one)
A mysterious, mournful film about proscribed teenaged-girlhood and feral female sexuality. There’s nothing entirely original here, but what it has to say, it says with enormous confidence and panache.
The Dive movie review: don’t hold your breath
Intermittent moments of fleeting suspense punctuate literal and figurative murkiness (I gave up trying to figure out what was going on) as it flails around trying to pad itself out to feature length.
daily stream: condemned to repeat the past, etc…
2017’s The Death of Stalin is on Hulu and Kanopy in the US, Prime and Apple TV in the UK.
daily stream: a rare genuine onscreen everywoman
2002’s My Big Fat Greek Wedding is on Max in the US, ITVx in the UK.
daily stream: where dogs are the equals of humans
2021’s Stray is on Kanopy in the US, Netflix in the UK.
