film criticism by maryann johanson | celebrating 25 years: 1997–2022
Deeply moving, truly tragic; a biography with a keenly journalistic but hugely sympathetic eye. Powerful compassion and a get-up-and-dance deployment of Houston’s music may well bring her a new generation of fans.
It’s supposed to be intense, but it’s just silly. Unless it’s secretly about one woman ridding the world of notorious arms dealers through sly manipulation.
Was Fox Mulder right? Is the Net becoming our digital soma?
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
I dunno much about Judge Dredd. I know he springs from a comic book series, I know he’s Judge Judy and executioner, and I know he never takes his helmet off. Forget the roughshodding of civil rights: it’s that last one that’s a major bummer.
One of the strangest incidents in American broadcasting history has a Doctor Who connection…
I can’t help but giggle every time I see one of these signs…
The Firefly and Battlestar Galactica actor will appear in the season premiere as ‘Canton Everett Delaware III.’ Let the speculation upon the whatsitness of that impressive moniker commence…
Watching *Max Headroom* again reminds me what a total hottie Network 23 reporter Edison Carter is…
It’s been almost a quarter of a century since this groundbreaking series graced our screens so briefly, but my memories of it have never faded, so great was the impact it had on my nerdy young brain…
