film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997
opening wide Land of the Lost: The “tachyon amplifier” could have been a technobabblish device as cool as, say, the oscillation overthruster or the flux capacitor. But it ain’t. The Hangover: Or as I like to think of it, Three Idiots and a Baby. My Life in Ruins: Greece is the word. opening limited Away … more…
I’m not expecting much from Land of the Lost (opens in the U.S. on June 5, and in the U.K. on July 31) — certainly nothing along the lines of the weird-ass freaky science fiction shit that blew my mind as an eight-year-old watching the original Saturday morning TV show. If it’s as mildly amusing … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… What I hear, this is like Crash — the Cronenberg one — but instead of automobile accidents, it’s weird stuff on the Internet that gets these freaky people off. So Maria Bello, who’s into this stuff, leaves her husband, Rufus Sewell, who isn’t into it, for Jason … more…
