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Weekend Box-Office: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Sneaks Its Way to the Top
This Christmas weekend almost had an unhappy ending, but an extra fourth day spelled good news for this year compared to last; an estimated $184.7 million was m...[Read More]
Movie Review: War Horse
It’s a curious thing to think that an award-ready Steven Spielberg World War I epic based on a raved-about stage play that is being released at Christmas could ...[Read More]
The Many Faces of Ebenezer Scrooge: A History of A Christmas Carol on Film
Charles Dickens enjoyed great popularity in his lifetime, and that popularity hasn’t waned to this day. Despite an incredibly prolific assortment of characters ...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
I certainly had high expectations for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo going in. Granted, we’ve all been burned by unsuccessful movie-to-book adaptations before,...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Adventures of Tintin
I did not love this movie, but it was okay. The Adventures of Tintin is a boring movie. I felt like I had seen the same story before, just with different charac...[Read More]
My Ten Favorite Christmas Movies
Christmas is almost upon us, and with the holiday comes Christmas movies. We all have ones we like and ones we don’t. So in the spirit of the holiday, I want to...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: Numbers Up from Before, But the Game Isn’t Quite Afoot for Sherlock Holmes
Things are picking up steam at the box office after a two-week decline, but the big end of the year blockbusters still are not performing up to expectations. Sh...[Read More]
Detroit Film Critics Society Announces the Best of 2011 Winners
The Detroit Film Critics Society is pleased to announce the Best of 2011 winners and nominees in ten categories. The society was founded in spring 2007 and cons...[Read More]
Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Like most people, I was dubious at first about Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes back in 2009. The idea of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s master sleuth being turned into ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
The latest installment in Cruise’s Mission: Impossible series of movies, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, feels a little out of place coming out around Chr...[Read More]
Movie Review: Shame
Though The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has laid claim as “the feel bad movie of Christmas” in its cheeky teaser trailer, that boast may actually belong to Briti...[Read More]
Movie Review: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked was a really exciting and fun movie. I loved every part of it. I really can’t tell you my favorite part because the whole m...[Read More]