daily stream: snappy cinematic junk food to distract from terrible reality
2001’s Ocean’s Eleven leaves UK Prime soon; on Prime and Apple TV in the US.
daily stream: the global-warming truth gets more inconvenient by the day
2006’s An Inconvenient Truth is on Kanopy in the US, Paramount+ in the UK.
loaded question: what are the best (and worse) ways characters have unexpectedly reappeared in a story?
I have chosen the absolute nonsense of “Somehow, Palpatine returned,” which is so ridiculous that poor Oscar Isaac seems unable to muster enough enthusiasm to even pretend it makes sense…
loaded question: what are some good movies about resilience and bouncing back from adversity?
I’m having a tougher time getting back into the swing of things after my recent surgery than I was expecting, so help me out here…
my long nightmare may be coming to a middle (update)
I didn’t mean to take so long to update everyone here on how my hip-replacement surgery, two weeks ago today, went — sorry!
daily stream: a darkly funny, deliciously feminist revisionist Western
1995’s The Quick and the Dead is on Netflix on both sides of the Atlantic (but leaves the US service soon).
loaded question: what movies depict introverts well?
My pick is 2018’s The Bookshop, in which star Emily Mortimer and director Isabel Coixet do a beautiful job of capturing the introverted essence of its bookstore-owner protagonist.
daily stream: spirituality without the supernatural
2011’s The Way is on Prime in the UK; not streaming in the US, but screening in cinemas via Fathom Events for one night only tonight.
daily stream: one of the best films about modern motherhood I’ve ever seen
2018’s Tully is on Netflix in the US, Prime in the UK.
daily stream: a grownup couple and their realistic romance
2022’s Ali & Ava leaves UK Netflix soon; on Kanopy in the US.
