Last year we celebrated the Oscar nominations by writing one sentence responses to trailers for Oscar nominated films, and we’re back at it again for the 2019 noms! This article includes our gut reactions to trailers for all films nominated for TWO OR MORE Academy Awards (and, as we did with I, Tonya last year, this year we forgot Best Foreign Film and Best Cinematography nominee Never Look Away). BlackKklansman (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Supporting Role -

If you’re anything like me, you too burst out into uncontrollable laughter when you saw the trailer for Cold Pursuit aka Taken 8. And maybe you too got lucky and caused your fellow theatre goers to guffaw along. Suffice to say, Liam Neeson has garnered a new movie going audience as an ass-kicking senior with a particular set of skills. And far be it from Mr. Neeson to not give his audience what they want. From the Taken series to Unknown to The Grey to Non-Stop to Run All Nig

Welcome to Sci-Fi Saturday, a column that is devoted to all things science fiction: film, television, comics, novels, video games, and local Metro Detroit events. If there is a topic you'd like to see covered in an upcoming column, email us at kinoclub313wsu@gmail.com! I'm finally nearly done with Season 1 of ST:TOS and it feels good, man. This week I watched episodes 23 through 26, leaving me with two remaining episodes for the season (technically three, but I've seen "The C

Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD is not an especially good Future album, not when you compare it to works like 56 Nights, Monster, or DS2. It’s bloated at 20 songs, with half-finished or half-baked concepts that have moments of intrigue but never take the full plunge into the codeine-swirling world in which Future’s genius has typically thrived. That might be because he’s quit Lean now (congratulations Nayvadius!), but it also might be because this release satisfies the last

Title: GRIS By: Nomada Studio (developer), Devolver Digital (publisher). Genre: Platform-Adventure Key Creators: Conrad Roset (Artist), Adrián Cuevas (Programmer) Grade: A+ In a Nutshell: You are Gris, a woman who wakes up on the crumbling hand of a statue. Shortly after singing a bit, the hand crumbles and she is unable to sing anymore. After falling into a monochromatic world, you set out to restore color and recover your voice. If you’re thinking that’s pretty basic, you’r

Growing up in the 1980’s meant I was able to cinematically feast on a buffet of buddy action films. You know, the kind of flicks full of macho-posturing, bare knuckle brawling, old fashion professional stunt work, antagonistic one-liners and just a tinge of homoeroticism. The trend was ceremoniously catalyzed by the 1982 classic 48 HRS. Director Walter Hill caught lightning in a bottle with Eddie Murphy’s star-making performance alongside Nick Nolte’s career rejuvenating work

Title: Only Lovers Left Alive Genre: Drama/Fantasy Director: Jim Jarmusch Stars: Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska Grade: B+ In a Nutshell: Adam (Tom Hiddleston) is a sequestered underground musician with a brooding contempt for the state of the human race and collection of vintage guitars. No, he’s not simply an insufferable edgy hipster – he and his lover Eve (Tilda Swindon) are vampires. Their tranquil idling in Detroit is disrupted by the unanticipated arrival

If you grew up in the 80’s like me, you grew up in the heyday of Eddie Murphy’s stardom. From his breakthrough days on “Saturday Night Live” to his stand-up comedy specials “Delirious” and “Raw” to his blockbuster comedies which included 48HRS., Trading Places, and Beverly Hills Cop I and 2, Murphy’s supernova rise was almost destined to burn out. The last twenty years or so has seen him try to invent and re-invent himself to varying degrees of success. He became more family

Welcome to Sci-Fi Saturday, a column that is devoted to all things science fiction: film, television, comics, novels, video games, and local Metro Detroit events. If there is a topic you'd like to see covered in an upcoming column, email us at kinoclub313wsu@gmail.com! How exciting it is to be writing the first Sci-Fi Saturday column of 2019 - or, as I like to think of it, Blade Runner year. Although I'll admit I'm a bit disappointed at the lack of spinner cars and sexy Daryl

In his best roles, Ray Liotta doesn’t act: he seethes. I became aware of his mesmerizing presence in 1986’s Something Wild. He played Melanie Griffith’s fresh-out-of-prison husband who was up to no good. I remember being disappointed that such a buoyant comedic journey (that also starred Jeff Daniels) took such a dark turn in its third act and yet it was hard to take my eyes of this raw unknown actor. He subsequently became best known for his breakthrough performance as mobst