movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: Yesterday is not interested in the world it proposes, one absent the incalculably enormous impact of the Beatles. It’s just a lazy comedy of one running joke, a regular schmoe enjoying unwarranted success, and a blah romance. Read the review…
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latest reviews
- Yesterday movie review: imagine there’s no Beatles…
- Endzeit (Ever After) movie review: there will come soft rains
- Brightburn movie review: villainy, celebrated
- Toy Story 4 movie review: recycled playthings… again
- The Grand Expedition immersive dining experience — the review
- Men in Black: International movie review: it is its own neuralyzer
- Always Be My Maybe movie review: this is how to shake up the tired rom-com (#Netflix)
- Papi Chulo movie review: can’t buy him love
- Free Trip to Egypt documentary review: busting through bigotry
- Late Night movie review: walking the talk (show) (#SundanceLondon2019)
- Gloria Bell movie review: an (extra)ordinary woman
- X-Men: Dark Phoenix movie review: dark matter, done way too light
2019’s films, ranked by maryann
all reviews, 1997–today
maryann sez…
- in 2010 I asked you: ‘What would you like to see in a Toy Story 4?’ (let’s revisit the replies)
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Jun 21
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jun 21
- new science-fiction flash fiction: “Secrets of the Universe”
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Jun 14
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jun 14
- I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” again TONIGHT, Saturday, June 15th
- new science-fiction flash fiction: “Exit Through the Gift Shop”
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Jun 07
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jun 05–07
- Flick Filosopher–on–Apple News experiment ends
- movies by or about women opening US/Can May 29–31
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire May 27–31
- new fantasy flash fiction: “Contrary Malediction”
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finest internets
- curated: Mark Rylance quits Royal Shakespeare Company over BP sponsorship
- curated: fundie Christians demand Netflix cancel Amazon Prime’s Good Omens
- curated: an all-male creative team for a Bene Gesserit TV series?
- the dystopia is here, part 2
- the dystopia is here
- curated: how has no one made a movie about Aloha Wanderwell yet?!
- curated: always be nyuk-nyuk-ing Nazis
- curated: were the works attributed to Shakespeare written by a woman?
- curated: a brief history of spoilers
- curated: explaining Captain Marvel’s vitally important, gamechanging character arc
- curated: toys of Japanese monsters giving press conferences to apologize for destroying cities
- curated: White Savior: The Movie Trailer
- curated: the arts contribute more to the US economy than agriculture or transportation
- curated: all worldbuilding is political…
- curated: Emma Thompson’s powerful #MeToo letter to Skydance re John Lasseter’s “second chance”
- curated: it’s not only *digital* journalism that the free market kills…
