MaryAnn’s quick take: Elegantly compact contemplation of national devastation that feels like the first post-postwar film. We should tremble to think that the future holds a reckoning for us similar to what we witness in Fatherland. Read the review…
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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma movie review: no such thing as “just a movie” - A blood-gushing, cheerfully horny phantasmagorical black comedy fueled by writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s unique understanding of fandom and the intense relationships we can have with pop culture.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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- Fatherland movie review: can you go home again?
- 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