movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: Family Romance, LLC. is a marvelously strange and perplexing meta meditation on human connection and ritual, on fact and fiction, on emotional truth. An existential cinematic rabbit hole as only Werner Herzog can deliver. Read the review…
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latest reviews
- Anthropocene: The Human Epoch documentary review: the destruction of our planet, in pictures (#EIFF2020)
- Disclosure documentary review: what the sorry state of trans representation onscreen means for everyone (#Netflix)
- Family Romance, LLC. movie review: coming to your emotional rescue
- To Kid or Not to Kid and Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth documentaries review: childfree or child-bound?
- Fanny Lye Deliver’d movie review: birth of the modern woman (#EIFF2020)
- My Spy movie review: and you can keep him, little girl (#AmazonPrime)
- The Last Tree movie review: boy interrupted
- Miss Juneteenth movie review: ordinary lives drawn with extraordinary grace
- 7500 movie review: never your in-flight movie (#AmazonPrime)
- Artemis Fowl movie review: falls foul of itself (#DisneyPlus)
- Sometimes Always Never movie review: only very intermittently
- Shirley movie review: lost girls gone mad
2020’s films, ranked by maryann
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maryann sez…
- my 2020 film ranking at the year’s midway point
- the Flick Filosopher daily email digest is now the weekly email digest
- as I’ve been saying: YES, the cultural context and content of a film MATTERS
- I pledge not to review any new movie available only in cinemas as long as COVID-19 remains a danger
- I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” again this Saturday, June 13th
- $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
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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?
