My Week with Marilyn
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]
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: My Week with Marilyn
Arriving at England’s Shepperton Studios in the summer of 1956, Marilyn Monroe is at the height of her star power and notorious for her unreliable nature on film sets. She is there to play an unchallenging, bubbly role for the great actor/director Laurence Olivier in his production The Sleeping Prince. Tellingly, the movie will arrive in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl in order to play up Mari...[Read More]