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Weekly Digest
Watch List Digest 7/26/24
On demand: A Lily Gladstone starring vehicle. In Theaters: Powell and Pressburger's surreal cinema.
One Good Film
Lily Gladstone takes center stage in a reservation-set dramatic thriller, a festival favorite streaming on Apple TV+.
Weekly Digest
Just one this week, but it has two excellent streaming suggestions to while away your weekend: "Skywalkers" on Netflix and "Flipside" on Amazon.
What to Watch
Plus: The Watch List turns three! And, for paid subscribers, reviews of "Twisters" and "National Anthem"
Weekly Digest
VOD recommendations, a farewell to Shelley Duvall, an appreciation of Kevin Bacon, a version of a classic that changes everything you loved about it, and more.
What to Watch
For your weekend viewing pleasure, 10 good movies on Amazon, plus choice picks for other VOD plaforms.
Remembrances ⭐️
You'll be hearing and reading a lot about "The Shining," of course, but it's Duvall's work with Robert Altman that will last.
Classics 🎞
Come to a screening and discussion of "Cinema Paradiso: The Director's Cut" Thursday July 11th at the West Newton Cinema.
Stars
Happy 66th birthday to the hardest working man in the film business.
New Movies
My Washington Post reviews of new release movies for the week.
A guide to movies in theaters and on demand, plus pop culture observations, from a film critic with 40 years in the business.
A stark, stunning documentary portrait of a Russian rebel artist. Plus: Weekend movie recommendations for streaming platforms.
The best guy-in-a-car movie of all time? Discuss.
Four movie reviews, a VOD tip, a Donald Sutherland farewell, and some musing on muses. Sorry, it was a busy week.
Maybe it’s time to rethink the way we think about muses.
For paid subscribers, three movie reviews and an appreciation of the late, great Donald Sutherland. From the Washington Post.
Plus: Streaming movie recommendations and the five most overlooked Donald Sutherland performances.
Sofia Alaoui's impressive debut feature about an enigmatic and allegorical apocalypse comes to video on demand.
(Backing into the Zen Journal after long silence.)
This week: Ten good-to-great movies that just arrived on Amazon Prime and a farewell to one of the great social-realist filmmakers in the medium's history.
Ken Loach's final film comes to VOD. Plus: Reviews of "Brats" and "Tuesday."
You're in the mood for a decent film? Here are 10 that just became available on Amazon Prime.
This week join me for a trip down the memory hole with two films that evoke the vanished New York City of the 1980s.