Shailene Woodley
The Preview Reel: Action Point & Adrift
Welcome to the “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. Solo: A Star Wars Story dramatically under performed over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, bringing in just $103 million over four days. That’s well below the anticipated $140-150 million, and could be seen as the first misstep from Disney since acquiring Lucasfilm back in 2012. The good news is that t...[Read More]
Win Passes to An Advance Screening of ADRIFT
Enter here for your chance to win a pair of passes to an advance screening of the new film, ADRIFT. For your chance to receive a pair of complimentary passes to see the new film ADRIFT starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin at the MJR Grand Digital Cinema Troy in Troy, Michigan on Wednesday, May 30th at 7:00 PM, just look for the “Enter the Contest” box further down on this page. Bu...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars, directed by Josh Boone, is based on the mega-popular and New York Times best seller by John Green. The story is narrated by 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley), a cancer patient with thyroid cancer; which spreads to her lungs, who falls in love with amputee Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort), a 17-year-old boy recovering from Osteosarcoma. Once meeting Augustus...[Read More]
A Kid Film Critic Reviews Divergent
Divergent is one of my favorite movies because it has a fantastic story and lots of action. The film is about a girl Tris (Shailene Woodley). She lives in futuristic Chicago surrounded by a wall that was built after a great war. In this city the people are divided into factions to keep the peace. Factions are a group of people who do the same thing. The factions are called Abnegation, Candor, Amit...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Another Crack at Teen-Lit Jackpot in Divergent
Hello again, dear readers, and I hope you all enjoyed your long Labor Day weekend. Now that the end-of-August releases have landed with their customary thud, we can leave the summer movie season behind and look forward to the fall and winter releases. In the meantime, this week’s new Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at the first teaser for the upcoming sci-fi book adaptation Divergent. Pr...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Spectacular Now
The Spectacular Now is a special movie. Adapted from the novel by Tim Tharp by (500) Days of Summer scribes Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, the script is heartwarming, charming, entertaining, funny, and at times, utterly devastating. Instead of being the typical romantic teen comedy, The Spectacular Now feels real, which only adds to how amazing the movie is. The film centers around a high ...[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]
Movie Review: The Descendants
You need to know this from the start – there are no negatives when it comes to The Descendants. The movie is a nearly perfect package. Yes, this is George Clooney’s greatest role (more on that later), but the other key pieces – supporting actors, writing, directing, cinematography, and music – all fit together like a customized glove to make writer/director Alexander Payne’s drama/comedy about a w...[Read More]