the “at-home” movie premiere is coming…

Following up on yesterday’s Question of the Day about whether the recent failure of grownup movies to make a splash at the box office means movies are about to get even more youth-dominated than they already are… I’ve got a piece up over at Film.com about what’s going to happen to grownup movies. Check it … more…

just a blogger

Newsflash from BusinessWeek! How Network TV Will Reinvent Itself Because of growing competition and dwindling TV ad dollars, the big networks will be forced to make major changes, and fast Of course, I said the same thing two years ago. But what do I know. I’m just a blogger, and worse: a girl. (Thanks to … more…

site was down for a while…

As you may have noticed. I wasted my work time this morning — before I had to head out to my Wolvervine screening — working with my Web host to fix it instead of working to get the day’s posts ready. And then I was actually at the Wolverine screening and then had lunch with … more…

no Dream Cast again this week

The response to my Dream Cast feature has been so lackluster of late that I wonder if everyone is tiring of it. So I feel no compunction whatsoever in skipping it again this week. If you want to check out the previous installments in the series, you can find them here. I dunno if the … more…

Michelle Rodriguez ain’t a lesbian…

Michelle Rodriguez ain’t a lesbian, dammit (not that there’s anything wrong with that), 40 ain’t old, and date rape still ain’t funny. Yes, it’s The Week in Women, up now over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy.

2009 ranking up to date

Hoorah! It took staying up till 2am, but it’s done! My 2009 ranking — which some of you had noticed I’d been wildly behind in updating — is finally fully up to date. Funny how so far this year I’ve tended to review the bad movies more regularly than the good ones. It is usually … more…

more ‘Doctor Who’ fan fiction

That new chapter in my latest Doctor Who fanfic saga I promised? It’s posted now. Enjoy. (I think you’ll recognize the little bit of dialogue echoed in “Planet of the Dead,” and why it works too well as I used it — long before I ever heard of “Planet of the Dead” — to alter … more…

new in “MaryAnn is a total ‘Doctor Who’ dork” news…

So, I had been planning to spend much of the weekend starting my new/old Doctor Who blogging, beginning with the Christopher Eccleston episodes and then, when those are done, back to the original series. And what happened was… I saw the new episode, “Planet of the Dead,” and spent a long moment screaming because there’s … more…