Email Author MELISSA ANDERSON

2012 Stories by MELISSA ANDERSON

• Let's Go Out to 'The Hunger Games'

  published March 22, 2012

  "If no one watches, then they don't have a game," a teenager says in this faithful if cautious adaptation of the first volume of Suzanne... More >>

• Not Yer Daddy's '21 Jump Street'

  published March 15, 2012

  The television show 21 Jump Street, about cops who go undercover as high schoolers, premiered on Fox in 1987—one year after the... More >>

• Who Needs 'Friends With Kids'?

  published March 8, 2012

  In the opening scene of Friends With Kids, a conspicuously placed copy of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion on the bedside... More >>

• The Subbasement Tapes of 'Last Days Here'

  published March 1, 2012

  When we're first introduced to emaciated, bug-eyed, trembling Bobby Liebling, the fiftyish front man of the frequently dormant, cult, metal... More >>

• Save the Humans In 'Big Miracle'!

  published February 2, 2012

  Starring everyone who wasn't in New Year's Eve—and larded with just as many bromides—Big Miracle is inspired by... More >>

• 'Crazy Horse' Takes the Butt Seriously

  published January 19, 2012

  Recording "Les Filles du Crazy," an anthem they'll later lip-synch onstage, half a dozen women—performers at the Crazy Horse, Paris'... More >>

• Is Nothing Sacred, 'Joyful Noise'?

  published January 12, 2012

  A holy hot mess of the sacred and the inane, Joyful Noise, about a small-town Southern gospel choir, lifts from Usher's "Yeah!" to... More >>