MaryAnn Johanson

MaryAnn Johanson is a New York City-based writer whose writings on film, TV, DVD, and pop culture appear in a variety of US alternative weekly newspapers including Salt Lake City Weekly and Charleston City Paper, and in the UK’s Blockbuster Preview. Online, she contributes to Film.com and FlickFilosopher.com. She is the author of The Totally Geeky Guide to The Princess Bride, and is an award-winning screenwriter. Read Johanson's recent articles below. For her Women On Film archive, type "MaryAnn Johanson" in the Search Box (upper right corner of screen).

Articles by MaryAnn Johanson

AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, February 5, 2010 - MaryAnn Johanson

Vanity Fair can recognize sexism and unfair treatment of women in Hollywood as long as it happened 70 years ago… Read the rest of this entry »

Essays and Features, Women on Film

AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, January 29, 2010 - MaryAnn Johanson

TV’s still very very bad for women writers; when violence = commitment; a movie about women as people and Read the rest of this entry »

Essays and Features, News and Previews, Women on Film

AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, January 22, 2010 - MaryAnn Johanson

The destruction of humanity is not a woman’s fault, dammit; the new trend of behind-every-great-man movies; Precious is not a documentary… Read the rest of this entry »

Essays and Features, News and Previews, Women on Film

AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, January 15, 2010 - MaryAnn Johanson

Maybe it’s men who “just aren’t funny”; sexy Star Wars lack imagination; how not to depict girl geeks and Read the rest of this entry »

Essays and Features, News and Previews, Women on Film

AWFJ Women On Film - MaryAnn Johanson’s Top Ten of 2009

1. The Hurt Locker
2. District 9
3. The Road
4. The Soloist
5. A Serious Man
6. Bright Star
7. Up
8. Inglourious Basterds
9. Fantastic Mr. Fox
10. The Brothers Bloom

Essays and Features, Member News, Women on Film

AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, January 8, 2010 - MaryAnn Johanson

Is Kathryn Bigelow female enough?; how to have a nonsexist awards season; Spike TV targets horny dudes… Read the rest of this entry »

Essays and Features, News and Previews, Women on Film

AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women - January 1, 2010 - MaryAnn Johanson

Feminist insists she isn’t one; the meaning of Brittany Murphy; why Sex and the City is a poor icon for women… Read the rest of this entry »

Essays and Features, News and Previews, Women on Film

AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, December 18, 2009

Women get vocal about men’s Hollywood power, only 18-year-old women are actually real, princess porn, and Read the rest of this entry »

Essays and Features, News and Previews, Women on Film

AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, December 11, 2009 - MaryAnn Johanson

Everyone knows women directors are disasters at the box office; skewering the dumb-blond stereotype; is it too soon to celebrate Sandra Bullock? Read the rest of this entry »

Essays and Features, News and Previews, Women on Film

AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, December 5, 2009 - MaryAnn Johanson

Another female film critic departs, some positive voices for a wider and wiser presence for women in the cinematic realm and girls kissing girls for male pleasure is still OMG hot. Read the rest of this entry »

Essays and Features, News and Previews, Women on Film