Carey Mulligan
Movie Review: Inside Llewyn Davis
In scenes organized like the complimentary songs of a weary 2:00 am vinyl album, Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis unfolds as another of their heartfelt, seriocomic, unsentimental, fine-brush portraits of distinctly-Jewish men at an existential dead-end (Barton Fink, A Serious Man) – this time set amidst the grey dawn of the early Sixties boom in the Greenwich Village of folk clubs, earnes...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Great Gatsby
This should have been a massive, misguided headache: stranger to subtlety Baz Luhrmann, director of the effervescent musical melodrama Moulin Rouge! and the guns a-blazing version of Romeo & Juliet decides to lend his stylized, campy sensibility to a 3D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s dog-eared, hot jazz and lost dreams classic The Great Gatsby, soundtracked by Jay-Z to make sure the kids ...[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 consists of a group of twenty-two film critics (our very own Mike Tyrkus is a proud member of the society) 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 ...[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 British director Steve McQueen’s second feature Shame. A downbeat character study of an emotionally-distant sex addict in New York City, the film has garnered awards and critical praise for Michael Fassbender’s complex and candid performance in ...[Read More]