film criticism by maryann johanson | handcrafted since 1997
Not only a portrait of the woman who made more than a thousand of the very first films, but a mystery detective story about how the achievements of a trailblazing woman were erased, and found again.
Amanda Seyfried and Lily James sing ABBA tunes; Jodie Foster patches up criminals; Lauren Greenfield investigates Western materialism; and more…
Does every wide release in North America this week feature a female protagonist or female ensemble? Wow.
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Girls and women love movies just as much as boys and men do. But it’s a love that gets thrown back in our faces by 95 percent of films.
An audacious coming-of-age tale unique in the history of cinema; deeply moving and beautifully authentic.
Neill Blomkamp cements his science-fiction credentials as a filmmaker with a genre vision the likes of which we haven’t seen since the socially conscious SF of the 1970s.
Not that this won’t be a mark in his favor with the other studios.
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
