MaryAnn Johanson

2 weeks ago | flickfilosopher.com | MaryAnn Johanson

It’s been a quarter of a century since the debut of the Final Destination horror franchise. It’s been 16 years since we were told that the 2009 installment was The Final Destination… and then they just plowed right onto Final Destination 5 two years later, in 2011.

2 weeks ago | flickfilosopher.com | MaryAnn Johanson

Sinners is a movie to make you remember why you fell in love with movies. A movie to make you fall in love with movies all over again, if, say, perhaps *ahem*, The Movies have gotten infested by IP contractual obligations and it feels like there’s nary an original story or authentic voice to be found on the big screen lately, and everything goes straight to streaming anyway so why even bother making the trip out to a big screen.

3 weeks ago | inlander.com | MaryAnn Johanson

Narrow By Date -All Dates- Thursday, May 15 Friday, May 16 Saturday, May 17 Sunday, May 18 Monday, May 19 Tuesday, May 20 Wednesday, May 21 Thursday, May 22 Friday, May 23 Saturday, May 24 Sunday, May 25 Monday, May 26 Tuesday, May 27 Wednesday, May 28 Thursday, May 29 Friday, May 30 Saturday, May 31 Sunday, June 1 Monday, June 2 Tuesday, June 3 Wednesday, June 4 Thursday, June 5 Friday, June 6 Saturday, June 7 Sunday, June 8 Monday, June 9 Tuesday, June 10 Wednesday, June 11 Thursday, June...

Mar 7, 2025 | flickfilosopher.com | MaryAnn Johanson

It’s a madness that has gripped many a film lover: What if I made my own movies? And so it is with Nasir Shaikh (Adarsh Gourav), a young man in the middle-of-nowhere industrial city of Malegaon, India, who helps his brother run their struggling “video parlor,” a sort of small cinema projecting VHSes of old movies. Nasir loves Keaton and Chaplin; their local audience, not so much.

Mar 2, 2025 | flickfilosopher.com | MaryAnn Johanson

Herewith my guesses about which nominees will take home Oscars tonight. Come back tomorrow, when I’ll add the winners, and see how well I did. I’ve had another terrible year as I continue to cope with some mental and physical health issues, so I haven’t reviewed anywhere near as many of this year’s nominees as I’d have liked, but I have seen most of them.