Albert Brooks
Movie Review: The Secret Life of Pets
Illumination Entertainment has been responsible for some of the biggest animated movies of the last couple years. They started with Despicable Me back in 2010, and have since released The Lorax (2012), Despicable Me 2 (2013), and Minions (2015). All of their films have been financially successful, with varying degrees of critical and audience reception, but their new film, The Secret Life of Pets,...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Return to the Sea in the New Trailer for Pixar’s Finding Dory
Happy March, dear readers! The Oscars are behind us now, and Disney’s Zootopia comes out this Friday. Speaking of which, this week’s Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at the second trailer for Disney/Pixar’s Finding Dory. Premise: Six months after the events of Finding Nemo, Dory (voice of Ellen DeGeneres) suddenly recalls her childhood memories. Remembering something about “the jewel of Monterey, Cal...[Read More]
Movie Review: This Is 40
This is 40 takes us back to Pete (Paul Rudd), wife Debbie (Leslie Mann) and daughters Sadie and Charlotte (Mann and writer/director Judd Apatow’s real-life children Maude and Iris) who we meet up with again five years after the events of Knocked Up. Apparently turning 40 means it’s midlife-crisis time, and this couple both hit the landmark birthday the same week, though Debbie is in denial, ...[Read More]
Detroit Film Critics Society Announces the Best of 2011 Nominations
The Detroit Film Critics Society is pleased to announce the Best of 2011 nominees in ten categories. The society was founded in spring 2007 and consists of a group of twenty-two film critics who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities within a 150-mile radius of the city including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Flint, Michigan. Each critic submitted t...[Read More]
Movie Review: Drive
Over the past two years I’ve really immersed myself into the world of classic films from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. During that time, I’ve found that I whole-heartedly subscribe to the old adage “They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.” Give me a classic film noir like This Gun for Hire (1942), Dark Passage (1947), or Kiss Me Deadly (1955) over any big-budget blockbuster and I’m happy. So, it with...[Read More]