movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has a verve rare in big-budget movies at the moment. Fun and fresh and legitimately engages with its source material on the levels of story, visuals, and mythology all at once. It feels like discovering storytelling anew. Read the review…
go> cinemas US/Can
go> dvd/blu/vod US/Can
go> by/about women US/Can
go> by/about women US/Can
go> cinemas UK/Ire
go> dvd/blu/vod UK/Ire
go> by/about women UK/Ire
go> by/about women UK/Ire
Patreon friends get more!
Or use PayPal to make a donation, but you’ll miss out on the Patreon extras.
latest reviews
- Mary Queen of Scots movie review: not so good to be the queen…
- Mortal Engines movie review: it’s got no rev
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse movie review: animation gets reanimated
- Dumplin’ movie review: throwing her weight around (#Netflix)
- Anna and the Apocalypse movie review: it shuffles along like the undead
- top secret report on Marvel’s Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. (EYES ONLY!)
- movies for the resistance: Schindler’s List
- Family in Transition documentary review: weathering change at home (#DOCNYC2018)
- Creed II movie review: a bout of familiarity
- Mirai movie review: and baby ruins everything
- The Christmas Chronicles movie review: the Kurt Russell–as–Santa Claus movie you didn’t know you needed (#Netflix)
- The Girl in the Spider’s Web movie review: an itsy-bitsy reboot
2018’s films, ranked by maryann
all reviews, 1997–today
maryann sez…
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Thu Dec 13
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Sat Dec 08
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Thu Dec 06
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Dec 07
- new Patreon tiers and rewards (and a note to current PayPal donors)
- say hello to the “movies for the resistance” and “on Netflix globally” pages
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Thu Nov 29
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Thu Nov 29
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Nov 21
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Nov 21
- Marvel’s Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. is coming to London!
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Nov 16
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Nov 16
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Nov 07
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Tue Nov 06
get all recent posts starting here
who is maryann, anyway?
finest internets
- curated: long-lost Kit Harington/Toothless audition tapes surface
- curated: ‘Die Hard’ IS a Christmas movie
- curated: “Movies Starring Women Earn More Than Male-Led Films”
- curated: Rose Macaulay, author, influenced Orwell and Huxley, forgotten and erased
- curated: teaching cinema in the age of #MeToo
- curated: Jodie Whittaker is getting paid the same as the male Doctors
- curated: contemplating ‘The Good Place’…
- curated: writers and musicians are being denied visas for professional visits to the UK
- curated: was an unidentified Cape Cod murder victim an extra in ‘Jaws’?
- curated: as long as Hollywood is dominated by white men…
- curated: racist science fiction and Donald Trump
- curated: vampire capitalists are killing journalism
- curated: NPR erases the work of a woman journalist… in a story about her work
- curated: the con artist impersonating the (few) powerful women of Hollywood
- curated: Brie Larson wants more diverse film critics; white dudes unhappy
- curated: even when women film critics exist, we’re ignored by gatekeepers
