Ben Affleck
Don’t Miss the New Gone Girl Trailer
The official trailer for director David Fincher’s new film, Gone Girl, has just been released and it asks the rather pointed question: “Amy is missing. Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?” Gone Girl, based upon the global bestseller by Gillian Flynn and directed by David Fincher, unearths the secrets at the heart of a modern marriage. On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, N...[Read More]
The Five Things We Want to See from Ben Affleck as Batman
As the resident Batman CinemaNerd (as evidenced here, here, here, and here), it’s been a pretty exciting couple of movie weeks for me. First, Ben Affleck gets cast in the new Superman vs. Batman film; then it’s revealed that the movie will be filmed in the Detroit area – all great news for any Batfan living in Michigan like me. I think the best news is that the production will need abo...[Read More]
Movie Review: To the Wonder
One would never accuse famed press-shy, prodigal film genius Terrence Malick of being hurried in either his storytelling or his carefully chosen, infrequent projects. Known in shorthand as the young 1970s turk who followed that decade’s downbeat, existential turn in American cinema to its lowest pulse rate in the meticulous classics Badlands and Days of Heaven – films without a specific cause to r...[Read More]
Detroit Film Critics Society Announces the Best of 2012 Winners
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]
Detroit Film Critics Society Announces Its 2012 Nominations
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]
Movie Review: Argo
Continuing with the dual director-actor role that brought him success with The Town (2010), Ben Affleck has hit another home run with Argo, a drama-thriller that recounts the daring CIA-backed rescue of six Americans who managed to escape the U.S. Embassy in Tehran as Iranian militants loyal to the Ayatollah Khomeini stormed the embassy on November 4, 1979, and ended up holding 52 Americans hostag...[Read More]
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