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MJ's Oscar Picks 2026: The Zombie Vampire Monster Ping Pong Edition
Best Supporting Actor Nominee Jacob Elordi as "The Creature" in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein. " I found what I am. What I'm made from. I am the child of a charnel house. A wreckage, assembled from refuse and the discarded dead. A monster . " - - The Creature (Jacob Elordi), Frankenstein He kind of looks like Oscar, Jacob Elordi's "Creature," doesn't he? An abstract patchwork of souls whose life is a Tabula Rasa of other's memories, hopes, dreams. I lo
MaryAnn Janosik
5 hours ago47 min read


REVIEW. EPiC: Can't Help Falling in Love With Baz Luhrmann's New Film.
Elvis Presley in 1973. Elvis White trash Elvis The Memphis flash Elvis Under the hood Elvis With Cadillac blood Elvis Darling bud Flowered and returned to the Mississippi mud Elvis -From "American David" by Bono I'll admit I've never been a huge Elvis Presley fan, nor a big fan of documentaries, for that matter. Elvis was just far enough ahead of my generation that, by the time I discovered who he was, he was on the downslide of his career. The only time my parents
MaryAnn Janosik
Feb 276 min read


REVIEW. "WUTHERING HEIGHTS." Emerald Fennell's Teenage Fever Dream Makes For One Fine Bad Romance (and that's a good thing).
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in Emerald Fennell's " Wuthering Heights." I want your love and all your lover's revenge You and me could write a bad romance. -Lady Gaga, "Bad Romance" Let's face it. Catherine Earnshaw may have found an eternal symbiosis in her relationship with Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's only novel, Wuthering Heights (published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell), declaring, "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same," but their do
MaryAnn Janosik
Feb 1411 min read


MJ's View: Long After "Before." Thoughts on Richard Linklaker's Brilliant Trilogy.
Spoilers abound in this retrospective so, if you've not seen the Before Trilogy, keep that in mind. Celine and Jesse. College students. Reunited lovers. Forever soulmates? Deep breath. It's been over thirty years since Before Sunrise 's premiere at the Sundance Film Festival (January 1995) and twenty-two years (February 2004) since its "sequel," Before Sunset brought audiences back for a second chapter about the very romantic, but often elusive relationship between Jesse (Et
MaryAnn Janosik
Feb 87 min read
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