Your Monster movie review: embrace the beast
Sure, the humor may be bitter, the horror may be audacious, and the overriding genre may be “anti-romance.” But this hugely original, grimly delightful howl of feminine rage is actually kinda sweet.
curated cinema: the woods are just trees, right? *gulp*
2017’s The Ritual is on Netflix in the US, Prime in the UK.
new Flick Filosopher WhatsApp channel
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I’m on the Strong Women – Strange Worlds Zoom Fri Nov 01
I’ll be reading one of the pieces of flash fiction from my SF/F/horror collection Cultural Artifacts.
curated cinema: fresh horror and fresh humanity in a stale subgenre
2016’s The Girl with All the Gifts is on Prime and Apple TV in the US and the UK.
curated cinema: the wit and wisdom of Maggie Smith (and her friends)
2018’s Tea with the Dames (aka Nothing Like a Dame) is on Kanopy in the US, BBC iPlayer in the UK.
I’m guesting once more on movie podcast Ribbon of Memes
I join hosts RogerBW and Nick Marsh to talk about the early 1990s trilogy Three Colours.
Lee movie review: the things she saw, and the way she saw them
It barely scratches the surface of the enormous audacity of WWII photographer Lee Miller, but still this is an important movie. It’s also joyous filmmaking, with terrific performances all around.
curated cinema: a little gem from early this year is new on Netflix
2024’s Wicked Little Letters is streaming on Netflix in the US and the UK.
Robot Dreams movie review: sighs of the machines
Immerse yourself in pure unalloyed joy with a sweet, deceptively simple carbon-silicon platonic romance. Even the poignant bittersweetness of this emotional roller coaster is affirming and uplifting.
