handcrafted film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997
A ramble with appealingly messy people rethinking their priorities that is perhaps more charming and touching than it might have been if this pandemic summer didn’t have so many of us doing the same.
A quite literally cartoonishly awful protagonist, a plot that makes no sense, lowbrow humor, and terrible gender dynamics add up to an unpleasant retro mess.
A great Batman movie, a great superhero movie, and a gloriously bonkers expression of the sublime silliness of crime fighters in capes, and our love of them.
Take True Lies and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Remove wit, sexy charm, and satire on marriage. This is a recipe for a movie anyone wants to see?
It’s all a bit satirical. Or maybe not. Look, over there, Shakespeare in a superhero cape!
It’s like they realized they never should have made a sequel, so for Part III, they didn’t even bother to make a Hangover movie at all…
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
Bitter, brutal, and — unfortunately for the hopes and dreams of the American people — very very pointedly funny.
Here’s a meme that’s apparently been circling the Web for a while now that I only just came across the other day…
I’m pretty sure that the reason Antonio Banderas was put on this planet was to make Puss in Boots speak…
