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Detroit’s Autorama to feature five generations of Batmobiles
The hot rod show rolls into the Motor City in March
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Things to Do, Car Culture, Critics’ Picks, Autorama, Batman, Huntington Place, Detroit hot rods, Slideshow
'The Exorcist: Believer' tries to match the horror of the original — but even Ellen Burstyn isn’t enough
For a sequel that seeks to be just as worthy as one of the most unsettling films ever made, 'Believer' is ultimately more quaint and hopeful than blood-curdling and scream-inducing
By Craig D. Lindsey
Tags: Movies, Movies, Reviews, The Exorcist, The Exorcist: Believer, horror movies
Emagine Theatres to screen Beyoncé ‘Renaissance’ tour film
It’s time to pull out the fringe cowboy hats again
By Randiah Camille Green
Tags: Movies, Movies, Things to Do, Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé, Beyoncé, Emagine Theatres, movies, things to do, Slideshow
‘First Lady of BMF’ Tonesa Welch biopic to debut on BET+ in October
The Black Mafia Family’s popular Starz show highlights the Flenory brothers, and now it’s Welch’s turn to have her story told
Tags: Movies, Movies, Tonesa Welch, First Lady Of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story, BET+, BMF, movies, Slideshow
Detroit Black Film Festival returns with 74 independent films
The festival will showcase Black narratives told through documentaries, dramas, comedies, animated shorts, and full-length movies
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Movies, Movies, Things to Do, Detroit Black Film Festival, Movies, documentaries, films, comedies, dramas, independent films
Movies will once again be affordable on National Cinema Day
Films at Emagine Theatres will cost just $4
By Jenna Jones
Tags: Things to Do, Things to Do, Movies, National Cinema Day, where to see movies for $4, movies, movie theatres, movie theatre deals, Emagine Theatres
Cinema Detroit to close in huge blow to local arthouse scene — but it’s not ready to give up
After a decade in business, Detroit has lost another movie theater
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Movies, Cinema Detroit, films, movies, Arthouse theater, Cass Corridor, Detroit, Paul Guthat, arts and entertainment
The last film this Detroit native worked on before his death was ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’
Celebrity makeup artist AJ Crimson was a trailblazer in the beauty industry, and passed away just after the film wrapped
Tags: Movies, Movies, AJ Crimson, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, movies, AJ Crimson Beauty
Detroit City Council approves controversial $7M expansion of ShotSpotter despite fierce opposition
Critics say the technology is unproven, invasive, and racially discriminatory
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, ShotSpotter, Detroit, Detroit City Council, surveillance, technology, Detroit Police Department, crime
Third annual Detroit Black Film Festival kicks off at Charles H. Wright Museum with ‘Lady Sings the Blues’ screening
The festival takes over the Charles H. Wright Museum and Marlene Boll Theater Sept. 21-25
Tags: Movies, Movies, Detroit Black Film Festival, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, movies, black films, arts & culture, Motown
The Joker’s real name is ‘Jack White,’ DC Comics reveals
The rock star of the same name said he was honored to share it with the ‘Batman’ supervillain
Tags: Music News, Music, Jack White, the Joker, Batman, comic books, DC Comics
Cinema Lamont and Detroit Puppet Company bring a month-long puppet film series
(Some) strings attached
By George Elkind
Tags: Movies, Movies, film, movies, puppets, art house, Detroit, Michigan
Boblo Boat documentary to hit select metro Detroit theaters in September
‘Boblo Boats: A Detroit Ferry Tale’ will have a two-week run beginning Sept. 16
Tags: Movies, Boblo Boat, Boblo Island, Boblo Boats: A Detroit Ferry Tale, movies, arts & culture
Detroiter goes from being homeless to working on Jordan Peele’s film ‘Nope’
Robert McTyre Jr. bought a one-way ticket to California that took 12 years to pay off
Tags: Movies, Movies, Arts & Culture, Nope, Robert McTyre Jr.
Motor City Comic Con returns this weekend with cosplay, celebrities, and a ‘Superman’ celebration
Staff pick
Tags: Things to Do, Things to Do, Motor City Comic Con, Detroit, Michigan, cosplay, comics, Superman
The best films of 2021, quite possibly the last great year of movies
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
City of Detroit unveils new emergency notification system for severe weather, natural disasters, other advisories
Tags: Emergency alerts, Detroit, Detroit Homeland Security, emergency, cell phone, app, weather, natural disasters, technology
Google partners with Detroit to develop search tool for affordable housing
Tags: Detroit, Google, technology, Affordable housing, low income, poverty, Mayor Duggan, Housing & Revitalization Department
Groundbreaking, coronavirus-killing technology installed in Wayne County jails
Tags: Wayne County Sheriff's Office, jails, coronavirus, technology, Integrated Viral Protection, filtration systems, Sheriff Washington, Detroit, Wayne County
'Jurassic Park' to kick-off opening of temporary drive-in theater at downtown Detroit's stalled Monroe Block site
By Jerilyn Jordan
Tags: Detroit, movies, drive-in, Jurassic park, Shrek, Back to the Future
Now that it’s lit up, people seem to like Detroit’s new I-94 sign
Pot-friendly Michigan music venue scales back programming
Detroit’s City Winery music venue aims for 2025 opening