Stories by Brianne Johnson
Fall Out Boy saves 'Rock and Roll' with angsty comeback album
BY BRIANNE JOHNSON
One week after Fall Out Boy’s new LP streamed online and set the Web ablaze, the fire refuses to fade as Save Rock and Roll, released Tuesday, burns in a searing ode to punk rock resurrection.
Brianne Johnson: Finding the nostalgia in film
BY BRIANNE JOHNSON
I thought film was nothing special, and certainly nothing to document and collect in my drawers. But after some digging through my DVD collection and my memory, my socks and the lacy like, I realized that — oh, how the words pain me — I was wrong.
Notebook: Save Facebook from #hashtagculture
BY BRIANNE JOHNSON
Why use Facebook if Twitter offers the same experience, only simpler? Why use Facebook if it only adopts the worst aspects of other sites? Why use Facebook? You won’t.
Brianne Johnson: Lamenting the decline of the DVD
BY BRIANNE JOHNSON
Between Netflix, OnDemand, local video rental houses, online streaming and YouTube, why drop $20 for a movie that can be so easily accessed for free?
Brianne Johnson: Films are not media-savvy enough
BY BRIANNE JOHNSON
Film is one of the few art forms and media industries that has yet to conform to, or adapt to, the very strategies — from real-time fan interaction to the Plato’s Closet commercials that serve as opportunities to race to the nearest fridge — that keep me awake.
Brianne Johnson: In defense of bad movies
BY BRIANNE JOHNSON
We can’t all be Roger Ebert, or even that one eloquent commenter on Rotten Tomatoes whose repertoire puts my DVD collection to shame. But who cares? I like movies — the good, the bad and the Rob Schneider.
Brianne Johnson: You're not a 'crier'
BY BRIANNE JOHNSON
Sometimes, a film plucks the hearts from its viewers’ chests. Sometimes it doesn’t. But why reduce that experience to a kind of innate label, an excuse of “I’m a crier”?
Brianne Johnson: Finding little satire in the racism of 'Django'
BY BRIANNE JOHNSON
The issue is that my friends weren’t laughing at the tongue-in-cheek racism. They weren’t guffawing at the laughable ignorance and transparent hospitality of “Django” ’s racists. They were laughing with them.
Crazy plot twists keep viewers guessing in 'Liars'
- ABC Family
BY BRIANNE JOHNSON
“Pretty Little Liars” is a never-ending game of Clue. Hints from opponents mean nothing, the culprit changes with each toss of the dice, and Professor Plum is a hot-for-student ex-teacher who aspires to Fitzgerald-esque greatness. And yet, no one can bear to quit the game — or stop watching.
Brianne Johnson: A movie guide to living through the holidays
BY BRIANNE JOHNSON
Allow me to introduce the only list you’ll need this season: Five ways to make the most of your winter break, inspired by the best — and the worst — of holiday movies.
