curated cinema: a quarter of a century later, a movie that we can now see as a drama about climate-change
2000’s The Perfect Storm is on Paramount+ in the US, Prime in the UK (and other services, too).
Cherry Jones
daily stream: attend a delightfully nasty little soiree with Cillian Murphy (and others)
2017’s The Party is on Kanopy in the US, Curzon Home Cinema in the UK.
weekend watchlist: is it good to be the queen?
Plus a teenage con artist, a skewering of late-night comedy, and more… (First published September 18th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Feb 14
Zosia Mamet, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Maika Monroe, Ellen Burstyn, and Catherine Keener are all starring in new movies this week… but good luck finding them on a screen near you.
The Party movie review: bring your own battle
Sally Potter’s brutally snappy take on the classic British drawing-room comedy hauls it into the 21st century with a cutting takedown of the anxieties and hypocrisies of well-off left-wingers.
The Perfect Storm review: following bliss
An intense and terrifying man-against-nature action movie, and also an unsentimental and unclichéd drama about following your bliss: doing what you’re made to do even to the point of risking your life.
