film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997
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Look, I love white people. Some of my best friends are white. But that doesn’t mean that I want to see white people in every movie, particularly if they don’t belong there. Like in The Last Airbender, which is based on a cartoon in which the characters are clearly from Inuit- and Asian-flavored cultures and … more…
There’s so much cool Doctor Who stuff in the universe, and I suspect we’re going to be starving for new Doctor Who stuff to talk about in two weeks, when the current series wraps up (well, except for my classic Doctor Who blogging and whatever other goodies I may be cooking up), that I think … more…
Sci Fi Wire wonders if this is the next District 9. Heat Vision offers this as an example of how over short films Hollywood is. I’m with Heat Vision on this. Unlike “Alive in Jo’burg,” the short that D9 was based on, this is all FX, no story. Unlike “Jo’burg,” which created an entire vibrant … more…
Sci Fi Wire ran a piece recently about “the secret code names of 37 sci-fi blockbuster films” — which sounds cooler than it actually is. I thought it would be about the original titles for great films that we now love, and hey, wouldn’t it be funny/silly/stupid if we couldn’t stop talking about that classic … more…
So how much sense does this make? BBC One will air “The Waters of Mars” — watch the trailer here — on Sunday, November 15, according to Digital Spy. But BBC America won’t air “The Waters of Mars” until Saturday, December 19, more than a month later, or so says Sci Fi Wire. All I … more…
