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Historic African American film exhibit headed to the DIA this February

‘Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971’ will include nearly 200 historical film posters, costumes, props, and excerpts

By Randiah Camille Green
Jan 9, 2024

Tags: Things to Do, Things to Do, Movies, Critics’ Picks, Detroit Institute of Arts, Things to Do, Detroit art scene, film
Movies

The very things the fanboys hate about ‘The Marvels’ makes this female-led flick worth seeing

Rise of the Superwomen

By Craig D. Lindsey
Nov 10, 2023

Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, The Marvels, Disney, Marvel Cinematic Universe
Movies

There’s something fishy about Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ remake

This sanitized multicultural fantasy is in search of a lot more soul

By Craig D. Lindsey
May 26, 2023

Tags: Movies, Movies, Disney, The Little Mermaid, Halle Bailey
Movies

‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ is a fitting end to the series — chaotic, annoying, and somehow still kind of fun

The final huzzah?

By Craig D. Lindsey
May 6, 2023

Tags: Movies, Movies, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Disney
Arts

Brooklyn artist brings absurdist ‘Plastic Bag Store’ installation to Ann Arbor

The experience is part-mockumentary, part-performance art, and full-on dystopian future

By Randiah Camille Green
Jan 27, 2023

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Visual Art, Robin Frohardt, The Plastic Bag Store, visual art, film, performant art, Ann Arbor, Arts Stories & Interviews
Movies

The limits of ‘Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody’

Biopic struggles to capture what made the star so compelling

By Maurice Tracy
Jan 26, 2023

Tags: Movies, Movies, Whitney Houston, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, film
Cannabis News

Michael Thompson opens up about being Michigan's longest serving non-violent offender

Heart-wrenching documentary features Flint native who spent decades in prison after selling weed

By Steve Neavling
Oct 28, 2022

Tags: Cannabis News, Weed, News, Michael Thompson, Documentary, MSNBC, Film, Marijuana, justice system, war on drugs
Movies

With Korean thriller ‘Decision to Leave,’ Park Chan-Wook smartly updates classic noir

The ‘Oldboy’ director stages a comeback

By George Elkind
Oct 24, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Decision to Leave, Park Chan-Wook, Tang Wei, Park Hae-il, Korea, film, noir
Movies

Noir City film fest brings a world of classic movies to Detroit’s Redford Theatre

More noir: This year’s fest as a return to basics, with double features of films from the 1930s-50s

By George Elkind
Sep 19, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Noir City, Redford Theatre, Detroit, film, film noir
Movies

Cinema Lamont and Detroit Puppet Company bring a month-long puppet film series

(Some) strings attached

By George Elkind
Aug 3, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, film, movies, puppets, art house, Detroit, Michigan
Movies

A wide-ranging self-portrait, ‘Beba’ traces its director’s cross-national family history

Filmmaker Rebeca Huntt is fighting for control of her own story — but it doesn’t always land

By George Elkind
Jul 18, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Beba, documentary, film
Movies

If Sam Raimi’s ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ is weird, your bar’s too low

The multiverse of badness

By George Elkind
May 9, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Doctor Strange, Disney, Marvel, Sam Raimi, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Video
Things to Do

You can catch wacky shorts at the seventh Detroit International Festival of Animation this Saturday

Staff pick

By Randiah Camille Green
May 4, 2022

Tags: Things to Do, Things to Do, Detroit International Festival of Animation, film, Senate Theatre, DIFA, 2022
Informed Dissent

Florida legislature’s abrupt elimination of Disney district is a mob shakedown by statute

Keep your mouth shut and the checks coming, or else

By Jeffrey C. Billman
Apr 27, 2022

Tags: Informed Dissent, Informed Dissent, Disney, Florida, LGBTQ+, politics, DeSantis, Don't Say Gay
Movies

New documentary explores devastating impact of human sex trafficking industry in metro Detroit

By Steve Neavling
Jan 27, 2022

Tags: Movies, Film, movie, documentary, sex trafficking, prostitution, Men Who Buy Sex – Everyone Pays, Wayne County Medical Society Foundation
Movies

The best films of 2021, quite possibly the last great year of movies

By George Elkind
Dec 22, 2021

Tags: Movies, 2021, movies, film, Procession, Red Rocket, El Planeta, Wife of a Spy, The French Dispatch, Souvenir, Pt. II, Bergman Island, North By Current, France, Worst Person, Memoria, Licorice Pizza, Days
Arts

Tim Allen isn't voicing Buzz Lightyear in new Pixar movie and people have feelings

By Jerilyn Jordan
Oct 27, 2021

Tags: The Scene, Buzz Lightyear, Pixar, Twitter, Disney, Tim Allen, Chris Evans, Captain America, Avengers, Marvel, trending, new movie, Toy Story
Arts

Darkroom Detroit resumes in-person film and photography workshops

By Marisa Kalil-Barrino
Aug 16, 2021

Tags: Darkroom Detroit, Photography, Film, Workshops, Classes
Movies

Pixar dips its toes into queer cinema, but it's shallow

By George Elkind
Jun 23, 2021

Tags: Movies, Disney, Pixar, Luca
Music News

New doc looks at the life of the late Detroit rapper Dex Osama

By Kahn Santori Davison
Sep 21, 2020

Tags: Dex Osama, Detroit, hip-hop, rap, Death on Me: The Story of Dex Osama, documentary, film, Video