Articles by: Joanna

by / on March 20, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials, Everything Else

MICHAEL BAY IS NOT THE SHREDDER

Michael Bay pretty much broke the internet yesterday when he announced his involvement in a live-action reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  As video of his presentation at the annual Nickelodeon upfronts (held March 14, 2012) went viral, fangirls and [...]

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by / on March 13, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials, Everything Else

BRAD PITT NEEDS TO SHUT HIS MOUTH

When I first watched Moneyball I was distracted by Brad Pitt’s mouth.  No, not because it’s so pretty and kissable and attached to that Benjamin Button-ish face of his, but because he just kept putting food in it.  Brad Pitt [...]

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by / on March 9, 2012 at 9:00 am / in Lists, Top 10s

JOANNA’S TOP 10 FICTIONAL MOVIE BANDS

If you know me at all then you know I love music.  I love stage musicals, movie musicals, and listening to Pandora stations all day at work.  I’m one of those people who sing in the shower, on the subway [...]

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by / on March 6, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials, Everything Else

SO BAD IT’S GOOD: THE ART OF A BAD MOVIE NIGHT

As you may have noticed, I take movies very seriously.  Like everyone here at MILF, I spend a large part of my week watching, thinking about, and analyzing movies.  We all love this stuff (why else would we—or for that [...]

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by / on February 28, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials, Everything Else

A MEDIOCRE NIGHT AT THE OSCARS

On the plus side, I enjoyed the Academy Awards about as much as I enjoyed this year’s Golden Globes ceremony.  On the negative side, you all know how much I enjoyed this year’s Golden Globes.  I know you all thing [...]

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by / on February 21, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials, Everything Else

HOW ABOUT A ROUND OF APPLAUSE?

What does it mean when we applaud a movie?  When we attend a concert or musical performance we generally applaud at the end of a song and at the completion of the show.  Our applause says that we enjoyed ourselves, [...]

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by / on February 19, 2012 at 3:00 pm / in Reviews, Theatrical Reviews

NEW RELEASE REVIEW: THE VOW

The Vow is a largely paint-by-numbers romance starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum as Paige and Leo, a married couple challenged by a tragic accident that leaves Paige with selective amnesia.  Since she has no memory of him, Paige’s husband [...]

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by / on February 14, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials, Everything Else

IS A KISS STILL A KISS?

This past Saturday the New York Times featured an editorial called “The Fundamental Things No Longer Apply,” in which author Neil Genzlinger laments that the “high-impact television kiss seems to have gone extinct.”  He argues that contemporary kisses on television [...]

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by / on February 7, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials, Everything Else

HEY GIRL, IT’S RYAN GOSLING

Okay, so I realize I’m probably gonna get a lot of crap for this post, but I’m writing it anyway.  This is a post dedicated to Ryan Gosling.  This is not a post dedicated to his toned abs, crooked smile, [...]

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by / on January 31, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials, Everything Else

THE NEW AND IMPROVED ACTION MOVIE

This past weekend I had the pleasure of viewing two fantastic action movies–Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and Captain America: The First Avenger.  As luck would have it, following the vein of my previous Attack the Block/Super 8 Double Feature of [...]

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