film criticism by maryann johanson | 25 years: 1997–2022
If you despair of the lack of smart, mature movies for adults now, just wait till The King’s Speech, reedited for knee-jerk prudes afraid of their own shadows and unable to competently parent their children to explain how words work, makes $100 million at the box office.
…on how “True Grit’s Oscar Nomination Is A Surrender To Creative Bankruptcy”…
Please don’t tell me that she’s going to be a dwarf who, halfway through Mirkwood, reveals she’s actually Thorin Oakenshield’s teenage daughter who disobeyed Dad when he told her she couldn’t come along on his quest…
It’s one of the biggest bombs of the year. Why?
Whatever issues you may have with Rotten Tomatoes — and lots of people see lots of problems in the site in particular and in the larger notion that something as idiosyncratic as 150 film reviews can be boiled down and compressed into one metric — it’s surely easy to admit that at least some people … more…
A very prominent blogger in the field of online marketing and copywriting came out this week. As a woman. “James Chartrand” of Copyblogger, it turns out, is female, and only assumed the male pseudonym when she discovered how much more successful she could be when readers, editors, and the people with the power to pay … more…
