film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but it’s your significant other’s turn to pick the doings of your date night, and you went to the movies last week. But you can have a multiplex-like experience from the comfort of your own sofa with a collection of the … more…
There hasn’t been a movie like The Runaways, one about women rockers that’s just as raw and earthy and tough and pitiless as the ones about the men are.
UPDATE: Added last-minute screenings this week of Our Family Wedding (opens in the U.S. and Canada on March 12; no U.K. release date has been announced; trailer here) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (opens in the U.K. on March 10, in the U.S. on March 19; it played theatrically last spring in Canada, … more…
