Often in the world of movies, the hardest stories to tell are the ones based on reality. It’s even harder when there’s no access to the main people involved, leaving a tale built on hearsay and embellishments. And when the movie is about “the most famous woman in the world,” there is almost no way to do her justice. So instead, the film Diana does the impossible – it turns the world’s favorite pri...[Read More]
The Detroit Film Critics Society (of which CinemaNerdz Editor in Chief Mike Tyrkus is a member) is pleased to announce the Best of 2012 winners in ten categories. The society was founded in spring 2007 and consists of a group of seventeen 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, Kal...[Read More]
The Detroit Film Critics Society (of which CinemaNerdz Editor in Chief Mike Tyrkus is a member) is pleased to announce the Best of 2012 nominees in ten categories. The society was founded in spring 2007 and consists of a group of seventeen 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, Ka...[Read More]
Clint Eastwood’s biopic of the innovative, paranoid lawman who became as notorious as the criminals he hunted as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar is a modest chamber drama that doesn’t offer its audience many of the comforts of the usual Hollywood historical epics – Eastwood’s whispering piano score and a monochromatic look that almost appears black-and-white in ...[Read More]