movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: Bullying tech CEO is cursed to revert to powerless kid-dom. The limp, desperate comedy that follows in Little never figures out who its audience is and is often unintentionally obnoxious and disturbing. Read the review…
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latest reviews
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maryann sez…
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Apr 14-19
- my top 10 films of 2019 (so far)
- my latest sci-fi flash fiction is a teaser of the long serial project I’ve been gearing up for
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Apr 12
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- a teaser from my latest flash fiction (a body-horror fairy tale)
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- movies by or about women opening US/Can Mar 27-29
- I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” again this
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finest internets
- 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…
- curated: YouTube bans videos showing dangerous pranks and stunts
- curated: the da Vinci money-laundering scam to benefit Trump that will make a great movie
- curated: Trump’s misunderstanding of ‘Game of Thrones’ is totally emblematic of our culture today
- curated: “What It’s Like to Be a Female Movie Critic in the #MeToo Era”
- behold 20th Century Fox’s brand-new Christmas trailer… for ‘Die Hard’
- curated: the #MeToo scandal surrounding Geoffrey Rush
- curated: “Using data to determine if Die Hard is a Christmas movie”
- curated: long-lost Kit Harington/Toothless audition tapes surface
- curated: ‘Die Hard’ IS a Christmas movie
