Mike Tyrkus

Will Ferrell hasn’t headlined a well-received comic film since The Other Guys (2010), depending on your taste in comedies—especially if you’re not including The Lego Movie (2014) for which he was the main antagonist but not really the star per se. One would think he personally had a lot riding on the success of his new film, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, since he not only stars ...[Read More]

A failure that often shows the promise of a biting satire of the election process, but far too often finds itself lost in a morass of self-aware social critiques and overt political diatribes.

For what initially looks like a slightly above average tearjerker of a slog through a castoff Lifetime movie of the week, the new dramedy, The High Note, from Focus Features proves to be a surprisingly delightful tale that showcases the talents of its two leads, Dakota Johnson and Tracee Ellis Ross, and makes for a refreshing change of pace from the action and/or adventure films that have traditio...[Read More]

Director D.W. Young’s documentary, The Booksellers, began streaming on various virtual cinema screens back on Friday, April 17 and has finally made its Detroit debut via the same medium at the Detroit Institute of Arts and those who seek it out will find it to be a thought-provoking treatise on the decline of the eclectic world of rare book dealers and the effects that could have on the material y...[Read More]

The new film, Slay the Dragon, from directors Chris Durrance and Barak Goodman, may prove to be one of the more pivotal, and possibly important films of the year when all is said and done. The film is a mediation and analysis of the political process and effects of gerrymandering—the practice of creating boundaries for electoral districts that ostensibly favor certain political interests within le...[Read More]

The timeless story of Peter Pan is reimagined in the wildly inventive and engrossing Wendy from director Benh Zeitlin. But the real treasure of the film is young star Devin France who bedazzles and electrifies the screen as the titular character. Lost on a mysterious island where aging and time have come unglued, the fabled Wendy must fight to save her brothers, gain her freedom, and retain the jo...[Read More]

Believe it or not, the film I Still Believe from Lionsgate is ostensibly the true-life story of Christian music star Jeremy Camp. But, this allegedly “inspiring” love story from the directors of the similarly-themed I Can Only Imagine (2018) is pretty much a copy of their earlier film and that’s about the loftiest praise you can bestow upon it. Camp is played by J.J. Apa (Archie from television’s ...[Read More]

Stop me if you’ve know this one, twelve strangers wake up in deserted clearing with no idea of how they arrived there and aClear cachere then systematically hunted for sport by more affluent members of society. If you haven’t heard that story, morality play, joke, or whatever you would like to call it, before, that may be because it is none of those things. It is, in fact, the plot of the new horr...[Read More]

The latest comic-book to be adapted as a film, Bloodshot, stars Vin Diesel as a recently murdered soldier named Ray Garrison who is resurrected and bestowed with super strength and healing abilities thanks to nanotechnology coursing through his veins. Now, of course, he’s hell bent on exacting revenge on those that not only caused his early demise, but robbed him of the love of his life. Or is he?...[Read More]

The latest offering from the pairing of Disney/Pixar, Onward, asks audience to imagine a world without wizards or magic. At first, you may think that wouldn’t be so hard to do, but there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye (there always is in cases such as this). Onward ponders this existential question and balances a heartfelt message along with some exquisite lead performances from Chris Pratt...[Read More]