Boyhood
Size Matters In the Boyhood Honest Trailer
As impressive as director Richard Linklater’s award-winning film Boyhood is, there are a few criticisms that have been brought against it. These critiques have gone largely unanswered. That is, until now. Not content to let any film off without a skewering, the folks over at Honest Trailer and Screen Junkies aim their guns on this year’s Best Picture front-runner, a simple tale a mere ...[Read More]
Boyhood Dominates the 2014 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards
The most distinguished film critic group in Michigan, the Detroit Film Critics Society, released their Best of 2014 nominees and winners in ten categories. The society was founded in Spring 2007 and consists of a group of eighteen Michigan 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]
The 2014 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards Nominations
The most distinguished film critic group in Michigan, the Detroit Film Critics Society, released their Best of 2014 nominees in ten categories. The society was founded in Spring 2007 and consists of a group of eighteen Michigan 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, Lan...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Expendables Not Strong Enough
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles may not be the most critically well-received film currently in the top ten at the box office, but it is keeping its crowd the best, with a second week in the first-place spot. It earned an estimated $28.4 million, enough to keep back Guardians of the Galaxy, which picked up an estimated $24.7 million. However, Guardians of the Galaxy is the highest domestic earner on t...[Read More]
Movie Review: Boyhood
What Richard Linklater’s Boyhood accomplishes is due the highest praise; as a feat of extended cinematic biography, there have been few experiments as rounded, detailed, and character-developed as this twelve-year gamble. Nailing my heart to the wall with a good growing-up tale is a favorite cinematic past-time going back to a lot of young, smart French faces in the 1950s and 1960s; Russian kids w...[Read More]
Win Passes to see Boyhood!
Enter here for your chance to win passes to an advance screening of director Richard Linklater’s BOYHOOD. For your chance to receive two (2) complimentary passes to see Boyhood at the Landmark Main Art Theater in Royal Oak, Michigan on Thursday, July 24th at 7:00PM, just look for the “giveaway” box further down on this page. There you’ll be directed to a variety of methods ...[Read More]