Charlize Theron
Trailer Trashin’: Unearthing the New Mad Max: Fury Road Trailer
We’re halfway through April dear readers, and that means the summer movie season is closer than ever. On this week’s Trailer Trashin’, I take another look at one of my most anticipated films of the year, George Miller’s action extravaganza Mad Max: Fury Road. Premise: In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, loner “Mad” Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) meets Imperator Furiosa (Charlize ...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Welcome Back to the Wasteland in Mad Max: Fury Road
After another longer-than-expected absence, I’m back, dear readers, and I’m hoping to get this column back on something approaching a regular schedule. More importantly, this week finally sees the release of Guardians of the Galaxy, which I hope to be watching by the time you’re reading these words. But it’s never too early to look ahead to what’s coming out next year, and ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Prometheus
Director Ridley Scott returns to the genre of science fiction (he helped set the standard for the modern sci-fi film with Alien in 1979 and Blade Runner in 1982 but has focused primarily on dramas and action-adventure films since) with the underwhelming prequel to the Alien saga, Prometheus. While visually stunning throughout, a poor script saddled with uninteresting characters that tries to inclu...[Read More]
Movie Review: Snow White and the Huntsman
The only similarity between Snow White and the Huntsman and the Disney tale with which you’re probably familiar is that both start with the words: “Once Upon a Time.” On the other side of that phrase lies a kingdom where men are mere bystanders against the forces that reign supreme: beauty and dark magic, wielded dangerously by bad-ass women. Evil queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron) is a man-hat...[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]
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