MaryAnn’s quick take: Rian Johnson’s third outing with droll detective Benoit Blanc, perhaps the most memorable original new movie character in decades, Wake Up Dead Man is a grimly funny gothic romp through modern hot-button Americana. Read the review…
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Superboys of Malegaon movie review: making movies with his friends - Gentle, charming dramedy about pals in middle-of-nowhere India making amateur movies. The giddy glee in this winsome portrait of geeky passion and enduring friendship is all-around infectious.movies for the resistance
One Battle After Another movie review: où est la résistance? - Brash, chaotic, full of bleak humor and bitter irony. With blockbuster vibes over an anarchic indie heart, it’s both earnest and winking. Outstanding in-flight entertainment for our societal freefall.21st-century sci-fi
Bugonia movie review: worst contact (London Film Festival 2025) - Grimly hilarious, this mashup of black comedy, social commentary, suspense, and horror is sharp and stinging, with a haunting gut punch of a finale... and it’s Yorgos Lanthimos’s most accessible film yet.streaming watchlist
curated cinema: the madness and genius of Brian Wilson - 2015’s Love & Mercy is on Prime and Apple TV+ on both sides of the Atlantic.classic film virgin
classic film virgin: Top Gun (1986) - Cold War propaganda that is weirdly apolitical. Sunny, breezy homoeroticism that is surely unintentional. What a hoot this is! Mostly not in a good way, but its impact on pop culture cannot be denied.sponsored
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- my picks for tonight’s 97th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2024’s films) (winners indicated)
- OFCS 2024 awards winners announced
- AWFJ 2024 EDA Awards winners announced
- join me for an online chat about ‘Chariots of Fire’ (now with video!)
- I’m back on movie podcast Ribbon of Memes, talking about ‘Midsommar’
- new Flick Filosopher WhatsApp channel
- I’m on the Strong Women – Strange Worlds Zoom Fri Nov 01
- I’m guesting once more on movie podcast Ribbon of Memes
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- Wake Up Dead Man movie review: knives way the hell out (London Film Festival 2025)
- Bugonia movie review: worst contact (London Film Festival 2025)
- Good Boy movie review: horrors beyond canine comprehension
- The Cut movie review: head not in the game
- One Battle After Another movie review: où est la résistance?
- Sew Torn movie review: patchwork pastiche
- curated cinema: the madness and genius of Brian Wilson
- curated cinema: how societies fall
- Black Bag movie review: committed to the cloak-and-dagger
- Fountain of Youth movie review: raiders of the lost art
- Final Destination: Bloodlines review: the curse of fatal death
- Sinners movie review: bootleg vampires
- Superboys of Malegaon movie review: making movies with his friends
- my picks for tonight’s 97th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2024’s films) (winners indicated)
- When I’m Ready movie review: it’s the end of the world, and you’d barely know it