MEDIA AFFILIATION
FlickFilosopher.com
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
MaryAnn at Rotten Tomatoes
LOCATION
New York City
ABOUT MARYANN
MaryAnn is a freelance writer who loves movies but hates what Hollywood sometimes does to them. She founded FlickFilosopher.com in 1997, making it one of the longest running movie Web sites. Her film reviews also appear in a variety of alternative-weekly newspapers across the U.S. Johanson is one of only a few film critics who is a member of the Webby-awarding International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, an invitation-only, 500-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities. She has appeared as a cultural commentator on BBC Radio and on local radio programs across North America, and she served a judge at the first Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Film Festival at the 2003 I-Con, the largest SF convention on the East Coast. An award-winning screenwriter, she is also the author of The Totally Geeky Guide to The Princess Bride, published in August 2006, and available in print from Amazon and as an ebook from Smashwords.
FAVORITES
Doctor Who, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, The Princess Bride, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Max Headroom, Bruce Campbell, live theater, good wine, region-free DVD players
