MaryAnn Johanson

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MaryAnn Johanson is a self-described blogger, film critic and author based in New York City. Her first book, The Totally Geeky Guide to The Princess Bride, was published in August 2006. ^[1]

She publishes a blog of film reviews at flickfilosopher.com^[2] where she also blogs about "geek culture" under the heading "Geek Philosophy."^[3]

Her reviews appear in a number of free weekly newspapers, including Salt Lake City Weekly^[4], Charleston City Paper^[5] and The Colorado Springs Independent.^[6]

In an article about online movie reviewers, Time Magazine questioned Johanson's objectivity, pointing out that she is an aspiring screenwriter "which raises the question of whether [she] can objectively review product by the same film studios [she] might hope to interest in [her] script." And further pointing out that "in her recent rave review of Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now Redux, the Flick Filosopher even mentions having shopped a script unsuccessfully to Coppola's company." Her reviews are targeted at "GenX" sci-fi and fantasy fans. Regular readers understand this and read her work due to it.^[7]

But Johanson is not afraid to pan popular and critically acclaimed movies as she did with Superbad ("excruciating"),^[8] Meet The Parents ("an unfathomably awful film"),^[9] and There's Something About Mary ("I was completely and utterly bored by it... I weep for America").^[10]