where (else) to find me online
tl;dr: I use my real name everywhere. If you’re not sure how to find me, search on “MaryAnn Johanson” and that should get you close.
Rotten Tomatoes
The Current War movie review: fathers of invention, in conflict
An electrifying style lights up this geek adventure of the intersections between science, culture, and capitalism in the 19th-century battle to power our world. Cumberbatch and Shannon are brilliant.
today is the 22nd anniversary of Flick Filosopher
On this day in 1997, I launched Flick Filosopher. Not many movie sites that were online in 1997 are still around. But me, like a fool? Still here.
me on feminist film criticism
Enjoy the rage.
The Girl in the Spider’s Web movie review: an itsy-bitsy reboot
A rote crime action thriller — very car chase! such gunshots! — that drains its protagonist of much of the raw power that has made her so fascinating in the past.
readers’ choice: should I review ‘The Nutcracker and the Four Realms’? vote at Patreon (final)
Due to overwhelming lack of interest from readers, I will not be reviewing this movie.
curated: LA, NYC, Boston and Nat’l film critics boycott Disney films in year-end awards
The relationship between the studios and critics has always been a contentious one, for obvious reasons, but what might have been previously called a cold war has hotted up this year…
Friend Request movie review: Facebook, a horror story (again)
We’ve literally just seen this, in 2015’s Unfriended. Tedious wannabe scarefest misses the true horrors of Facebook and cultivates a personality-free blandness.
Where Are the Women?: critics are slightly more likely to rate a film highly if it represents women well
Rotten Tomatoes critics are 22% more likely to give a good score to films that represent women well, and Metacritic critics are 28% more likely to do so. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
why movies like Under the Skin and Nymphomaniac are not feminist
These films act like what it means to be a woman is purely about sex and bodies, purely about interacting with men in no other way than a sexual one.
