We’re another week closer to Christmas, and I was very happy to see Frozen take the top spot at the box office this past weekend. In the meantime, this week’s new Trailer Trashin’ examines yet another of next year’s big upcoming films – The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Premise: Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) continues to struggle with balancing his life as a high school student an...[Read More]
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]
If you make a feature-length movie in one month and decide not to give your actors a script, you can expect to see some flaws in the final product. The good news for Like Crazy, winner of this year’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize for dramatic feature and the latest film from 28-year-old writer/director Drake Doremus, is that the movie’s positives far outweigh its negatives. What begins as a stereotypi...[Read More]