
movies by or about women opening US/Can May 29–31
Karen Kramer directs documentary Renegade Dreamers; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
film criticism by maryann johanson | handcrafted since 1997
Karen Kramer directs documentary Renegade Dreamers; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
Octavia Spencer, Diana Silvers, and McKaley Miller star in horror thriller Ma; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
A bargain-bin cockadoodie pseudo-Misery, a disgraceful waste of the brilliant Octavia Spencer. Has no interest in women’s pain and trauma even as it appropriates it for entertainment purposes.
Ruins itself as even high-toned cinematic junk food when its justifiable cynicism morphs into something manipulative and dangerously disingenuous.
I adore Margo Martindale, who stole the show in Justified this past season, and whose performance in Paris, je t’aime still lingers with me…
It’s Thursday, so it’s time for another Dream Cast, in which we take a classic movie or TV show — perferrably something with Xer appeal that we can either trash or have fun with — and recast a hypothetical (or sometimes not so hypothetical) remake with actors working today. This week: Three’s Company, the 1977-84 … more…
Shazbot, I’m late this week. But it’s still Thursday, so there’s still time to remake an 80s classic TV show or movie with an all-new cast. This week: Mork & Mindy, the 1978-82 ABC sitcom about the doofiest alien in the universe and the human girl who lets him sleep on her sofa. (If you … more…