movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: A spectacularly scattershot, pandering mess of pulp junk, cheap-looking animation, and poisonous gender dynamics. Scoob! is a charmless cash-grab that can’t be bothered with the slightest stab at originality. Read the review…
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latest reviews
- The Lovebirds movie review: breaking up on the run (#Netflix)
- Inheritance movie review: ill fortune
- Lucky Grandma movie review: brittle old lady
- Scoob! movie review: Scooby dooby don’t
- Becoming documentary review: hope floats (#Netflix)
- Spaceship Earth documentary review: under the dome, and under a scrutinous eye
- How to Build a Girl movie review: instruction manual not included
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century documentary review: eat the rich (cuz they’re eating us)
- Bad Education movie review: school for scandal (#HBO)
- The Assistant movie review: the realities of being a girl
- Extraction movie review: meet the sociopathic white savior (#Netflix)
- Planet of the Humans documentary review: we’ve done it, and we’ve been doing it for centuries
2020’s films, ranked by maryann
2019’s films, ranked by maryann
all reviews, 1997–today
maryann sez…
- $1 and $3 Patreon tiers to be retired on June 1st (but join now and you can stay at that level)
- flash fiction update: ebook coming soon, free to all Patreon patrons — join now!
- my 2020 film ranking is filling out… even with cinemas closed
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Mar 13
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Mar 11–13
- I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” again, today, Saturday, March 14th
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Mar 04–06
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Mar 06
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Feb 28
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Feb 28
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Feb 21
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Feb 21
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Feb 14
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Feb 14
- my picks for tonight’s 92nd Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2019’s films) (winners indicated)
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finest internets
- curated: how we look at art… and how we think about looking at art
- reader Bluejay’s project to help us all stay sane (and I want yours too)
- “Remain Indoors”
- a message from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost…
- a message from the Doctor at this strange and anxious time
- curated: the roles typecast actors would prefer to play
- curated: why we don’t ‘see’ Star Wars anymore…
- curated: going to the theater sounds as bad as going to the movies these days…
- curated: we are the frogs slowly boiling in a soup of hatred and lack of compassion
- curated: Natalie Portman announced as Thor, and the manbaby fanboys are freaking out
- curated: bonding over movies is in our genes
- herewith the ‘Cats’ trailer, because OMG
- curated: “The Dominance of the White Male Critic”
- 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?
