Miriam Olenick

Bio

Contributor to the Arts & Entertainment section. She graduated from Wesleyan University and has worked for Delish.com and Lilith Magazine. Her hobbies and interests include science fiction and fantasy, old movies, eating, and making ice cream for her blog, scoopdujour.net.
'Maleficent' and 'Frozen' Are Updating Classic Tales in an Incredibly Important Way
By Miriam Olenick
Frozen, for all its modern trappings, is a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's tale "The Snow Queen." It took the ingredients and characters from the 19th century story, chewed them up, spat them out and made them into something modern,…
8 Irish Films That Prove There's Way More to Being Irish Than Drinking
By Miriam Olenick
St Patrick's Day is coming up this weekend, and for many people that means it's time to get extremely drunk — or "bolloxed," as the Irish say. But there's much more to Irish culture — and to celebrating the country's patron saint — than drinking…
Beautiful Animated Movies That Prove Cartoons Aren't Just for Kids
By Miriam Olenick
Frozen won the Academy Award for Best Animated Film, but a lot of people feel that internationally-celebrated Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's film The Wind Rises — the last film he intends to make — was unfairly snubbed. But it was to be…
9 Worst Love Lessons from Romantic Comedies
By Miriam Olenick
Romantic comedies make us laugh, cry and believe in true love. Unfortunately, they also make us believe in a whole bunch of other things aren't true — things that are kind of false and definitely destructive. In honor of Valentine's Day, we give you…
6 Classic Cult Movies We Can't Wait to See on Broadway
By Miriam Olenick
For years, feature films have been reincarnated as hit (or miss) musicals. Spiderman, Shrek, Sister Act, Big Fish and Legally Blonde are just a few of the most recent examples to move from the big screen to Broadway — for better or worse. At the…
8 Ways Amy Poehler Saved Pop Culture in 2013
By Miriam Olenick
Amy Poehler's being awesome is not new, and it's not exclusively a trend of 2013 — but there's no doubt that she's been on top this year. From awards shows, to charity fundraisers, to her role on Parks and Recreation, she showed she could make us…
Sperm Donors Are the New Movie Dad
By Miriam Olenick
Leo Tolstoy may have said that happy families are all alike, but with the sperm donor film genre, it's clear that Hollywood disagrees. Delivery Man, a new film starring Vince Vaughn as a man who unwittingly fathers 533 children through an excessive…