movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: Wherein the working class revels in servitude, and wealth and privilege are deserved. Deeply reactionary, Downton Abbey is unlikely to please anyone not already enamored of the show. I get Anglophilia, but really?
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latest reviews
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- Downton Abbey movie review: embarrassment of riches
- Phoenix (Føniks) movie review: but will she rise again?
- Hustlers movie review: with hearts of steel
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- It: Chapter Two movie review: it doesn’t float
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- Gwen movie review: a frisson of fright on the farm
- Brian Banks movie review: calling out corruption, mildly
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2019’s films, ranked by maryann
all reviews, 1997–today
maryann sez…
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Sep 18–20
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Sep 20
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Sep 13
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Sep 13
- new fantasy flash fiction: “Wings Are Not Only for Birds”
- today is the 22nd anniversary of Flick Filosopher
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Sep 06
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Sep 06: NONE
- I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” again, Saturday, September 7th
- movie-related flash-fiction freebie: “Disney Dystopia”
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Aug 30
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Aug 30
- new science-fiction flash fiction: “Festival of Flight”
- I geek out over the films I’m psyched for, Autumn 2019
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Aug 21–23
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finest internets
- 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
- curated: explaining Captain Marvel’s vitally important, gamechanging character arc
