Mary Allen's Activity

• Mary Allen wrote a new blog post: Back to the Beach review   3 weeks, 4 days ago
  

  Picture yourself at a Paramount Pictures pitch conjunction, circa 1986. MTV is at an arguable summit, ringlets bands are sprouting, Michael Jackson’s nose is two-thirds intact and Madonna lords supreme over the Principal 40 radio airplay crowd. Can you visualize the reactions of the suits behind the desk when presented with a proposal into a [...]

• Mary Allen wrote a new blog post: Waterworld review   3 weeks, 6 days ago
  

  “Waterworld” isn’t “Fishtar,” but Kevin Costner’s pricey, brief-apocalyptic sloshbuckler isn’t a seafaring classic either. In this irresponsible futuristic adventure, the Antarctic icecaps have melted, and what’s Heraldry sinister of humanity is clustered like barnacles on man-made atolls. Menaced by abominable “Smokers,” the survivors all large for someone to come them to the illustrious Dryland—ergo, the [...]