Viola Davis
Movie Review: Ender’s Game
The new film based on controversial writer Orson Scott Card’s seminal work of science fiction, Ender’s Game, does an admirable job of translating the dense book’s heart and morality. While fans may find the long-anticipated film somewhat lacking the book’s scope as well as aspects of the tortured titular character of Ender Wiggin, it does deliver a surprisingly effective sci-fi adventure that even...[Read More]
A Ten-Year-Old Film Critic Reviews Won’t Back Down
I loved this movie! Won’t Back Down is a rockin’ movie full of both sad and happy parts. It was very emotional. The movie starts off with a little girl named Malia Fitzpatrick (Emily Alyn Lind), who is not learning in school, and her mom, Jamie Fitzpatrick (Maggie Gyllenhaal), is very frustrated about that. So her mom wants to change the school and goes through this big adventure to make Adams Ele...[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]