How original are 2017's summer blockbuster movies?
It’s time for my annual look at what blockbuster movies are coming out this summer, and seeing how original they are. Criteria The Oriental Theater in Milwaukee. My criteria for “
film originality
How original are 2016's summer blockbuster movies?
It’s time once again to take a look at this summer’s blockbuster films, and see how they’ll rank on the basis of originality. That’s as
How original are 2015's summer blockbuster movies?
Once again, I thought it’s time to look at this year’s upcoming summer blockbuster films, and to rank them based on the originality criteria laid down by Jay Sherman
The "Jay Sherman Test" and 2014's summer blockbuster movies
Repeating a theme from the previous few summers, I thought I’d look at 2014’s summer movie slate, and see which ones pass Jay Sherman of “The Critic”
The "Jay Sherman Test" and 2013's summer blockbuster movies
Repeating a post from last year, I thought I’d look at 2013’s summer blockbuster movie slate, and see which ones pass Jay Sherman of “The Critic”‘
The "Jay Sherman Test" and summer 2012 blockbuster movies
Thought I’d look (as I did last year) at the upcoming batch of summer movies, as applied to the “Jay Sherman Test” (as I’ve dubbed it), the
The "Jay Sherman Test" applied to summer 2011 animated and comic book films
Besides the well-known Bechdel Test, another possible set of rules for movie-viewing, though way more lenient than the Bechdel Test, might be the ones that were proposed by Jay Sherman in the 90s
Movie viewing "rules": the Bechdel Test and Jay Sherman's rules (2010 edition)
Often brought up online is the “Bechdel Test.” Named after the cartoonist of LGBT comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, Alison Bechdel, it proposes that one shouldn’t see