MaryAnn’s quick take: A blood-gushing, cheerfully horny phantasmagorical black comedy, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is fueled by writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s unique understanding of fandom and the intense relationships we can have with pop culture. Read the review…
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Finding Emily movie review: call waiting - A smart, funny switched-up Cinderella for the social-media era with lots to say about modern dating and gender relations that is caustic, optimistic, and exasperated all at once. Instant comfort movie.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: nailing a crooked politician, and making it good TV - 2008’s Frost/Nixon 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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- I’m coming back — pinky promise! — next week
- my picks for tomorrow night’s 98th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2025’s films) (winners indicated)
- 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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- Finding Emily movie review: call waiting
- Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma movie review: no such thing as “just a movie”
- curated cinema: nailing a crooked politician, and making it good TV
- curated cinema: what Jeff Bezos threw away in The Washington Post
- curated cinema: the criminal conspiracy is coming from inside the White House
- I’m coming back — pinky promise! — next week
- my picks for tomorrow night’s 98th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2025’s films) (winners indicated)
- curated cinema: two great movies by Rob Reiner
- 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