Searching for Sugar Man
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: Searching for Sugar Man
An urban legend is recounted of a preternaturally-gifted folky songwriter in the Bob Dylan or Phil Ochs mold living a transient life in late 1960s Detroit, busking and hat-passing at the local dive bars in the aftermath of the 1967 riots and cutting two funky and poetic vinyl folk dispatches on life in a decaying city and a world full of love and trouble. The young man with hippie-mod style and a ...[Read More]