movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: The House with a Clock in Its Walls offers charming entry-level spookiness and nicely old-fashioned eeriness for budding fright fans. A disarmingly goofy Jack Black and a vamping-it-up Cate Blanchett meet in a comic middle that is perfectly pitched. Read the review…
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maryann sez…
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Sep 14
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Sep 14
- why not buy Flick Filosopher a beer for its 21st birthday?
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Sep 07
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Thu Sep 06
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Aug 31
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Mon Aug 27
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Aug 24
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Aug 22
- I’ve just finished watching Netflix’s ‘Queer Eye’…
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Aug 15
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Aug 15
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Aug 08
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Aug 10
- no, I have not reviewed ‘Sorry to Bother You’; yes, I would love to
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finest internets
- curated: writers and musicians are being denied visas for professional visits to the UK
- curated: was an unidentified Cape Cop 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
- curated: horrible “fans” hound Kelly Marie Tran off Instagram
- curated: Lando Calrissian, space vlogger
- curated: now I *really* want to see Lord & Miller’s Han Solo movie
- curated: ‘Show Dogs’ gets recut following complaints it helps pedophiles
- curated: has the Internet killed cultural criticism?
- curated: how the Hollywood old boys’ club gets perpetuated
- curated: the propaganda films that served Britain well in WWII are hurting in the Brexit era
