If you went to see The Dark Knight Rises – and considering that it’s already made over $530 million worldwide, many of you probably have – you probably got a look at the next DC Comics movie coming our way. It’s the one superhero who sports a bigger name than Batman. The Man of Tomorrow, the Last Son of Krypton, the Big Blue Boy Scout: Superman! And we’ve got not one, but two ver...[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]
I walked into Machine Gun Preacher expecting a campy fun grindhouse flick, something along the lines of Hobo with a Shotgun. That’s because up until the screening, I had heard absolutely nothing about the movie: no trailers, no pre-release hype, nothing. After watching the movie, it’s a shame that Machine Gun Preacher is flying so under the radar because it’s a movie well worth seeing. Instead of ...[Read More]