movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: The Call of the Wild is an old-fashioned kiddie adventure, sweetly earnest, equal parts scary, funny, exciting, sad, and happy, with only a bit of uncanny valley in its CGI doggo star. Definitely had something in my eye. Read the review…
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latest reviews
- The Lodge movie review: stuck in miserably mushy snow
- Like a Boss movie review: it doesn’t quite fall down on the job
- Dark Waters movie review: capitalism will kill ya
- Seberg movie review: inept tribute to a troubled movie star
- The Call of the Wild movie review: a very good boi (mostly)
- A Simple Wedding movie review: spoiler, it’s not so simple
- Emma. movie review: this queen bee has a bitter sting
- Olympic Dreams movie review: coming in from the emotional cold
- Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts 2020 (92nd Academy Awards) review
- Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts 2020 (92nd Academy Awards) review
- Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2020 (92nd Academy Awards) review
- Daniel Isn’t Real movie review: or is he?
2020’s films, ranked by maryann
2019’s films, ranked by maryann
all reviews, 1997–today
maryann sez…
- 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)
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Feb 07
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Feb 07
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Jan 29–31
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jan 31
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Jan 24
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jan 24
- new fantasy flash fiction: “Impedimenta” (free for everyone!)
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Jan 17
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jan 17
- my ranking of the films of 2020 has begun!
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finest internets
- 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?
- 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
