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March movies lack magic

While there have been a couple of solid offerings, those have felt more like aberrations than the norm

By Jared Rasic, Last Word Features
Mar 25, 2025

Tags: Movies, Television, Views & Opinions, Disney, Netflix, science fiction
Movies

Our best and worst movies of 2024

It was also another pretty powerful year for television, with the streaming services dominating the landscape once again

By Jared Rasic, Last Word Features
Jan 1, 2025

Tags: Movies, Critics’ Picks, Television, Best Movies of 2024, Movies of the Year, Best TV of 2024, The Beast, His Three Daughters, Netflix
Movies

Two Christmas movies for fans of holiday films

A pair of romantic dramedies break the Hallmark mold to serve up ridiculous fun

By Jared Rasic, Last Word Features
Dec 5, 2024

Tags: Movies, Television, Views & Opinions, Netflix, Christmas movies, Hot Frosty, The Merry Gentlemen, Hallmark movies, Video
Movies

‘Rebel Ridge,’ Jeremy Saulnier, and the ‘Post-Social Next Wave’ era of filmmaking

Released directly to Netflix, Saulnier’s latest is simultaneously an old-school action movie, legal thriller, and a cultural critique of police corruption

By Jared Rasic, Last Word Features
Sep 13, 2024

Tags: Movies, Television, Views & Opinions, Netflix, Jeremy Saulnier
Metro Detroit

You could be the diamond of the season at this Bridgerton-themed ball coming to Detroit

Limited extra tickets for the event at Castle Hall and Beacon Park go on sale this Friday

By Layla McMurtrie
Jun 10, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Television, Things to Do, Bridgerton party Detroit, Bridgerton ball Detroit, Bridgerton, Bridgerton Season 3, Netflix, Detroit events, things to do in Detroit, diamond of the season, Bridgerton tea party
Movies

Regina King is terrific in Netflix’s ‘Shirley,’ which details Shirley Chisholm’s remarkable career

Following the trailblazing 1972 presidential run of the first Black woman elected to Congress, the film often struggles to find the personal in the political

By Chuck Wilson
Mar 21, 2024

Tags: Movies, Movies, Television, Views & Opinions, Shirley Chisholm, Netflix, Regina King, Black history
Metro Detroit

Netflix is still looking for Detroit ‘Love is Blind’ contestants

You could meet the love of your life — or not, as the show is not without controversy

By Lee DeVito
Mar 14, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, LOL, Television, Love is Blind, Netflix, TV shows filmed in metro Detroit
Movies

‘Spaceman’ gives Adam Sandler another meaty role, but without a script to match

Even broadly speaking, this Netflix Original is unlike anything Sandler has done in his 35 years of film

By Kayla McCulloch
Mar 1, 2024

Tags: Movies, Movies, Television, Views & Opinions, Adam Sandler, Netflix, Johan Renck, Paul Dano
Food News

Detroit farmers and chefs drop gems on food access and ‘land alchemy’ in Netflix series

Keep Growing Detroit, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, and more are featured in ‘You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment’

By Randiah Camille Green
Jan 4, 2024

Tags: Food News, Television, Local Businesses, You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment, Netflix, Keep Growing Detroit, Paradise Natural Foods, Taste the Diaspora Detroit, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Movies

The limits of Netflix’s ‘Stamped from the Beginning’

The documentary weaves a history of anti-Black racism in America, though it makes some glaring omissions

By Herb Boyd
Dec 1, 2023

Tags: Movies, Movies, Television, Views & Opinions, Netflix, Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi, film reviews, Roger Ross Williams, racism in America, Video
Movies

A touching new doc captures acclaimed composer Jon Batiste grappling with his wife’s cancer

Originally intended to be a road trip movie, Suleika Jaouad’s resurgent illness changed the structure and tenor of the film

By Chuck Wilson
Nov 30, 2023

Tags: Movies, Movies, Music, Television, Jon Batiste, Suleika Jaouad, Netflix, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Video
Things to Do

Comedian Taylor Tomlinson to perform back-to-back shows at Detroit’s Fox Theatre

Following her first two Netflix stand-up specials, which center on life in her 20s, Tomlinson is now exploring the quest to ‘have it all’ when people hit their 30s

By Steve Neavling
Oct 10, 2023

Tags: Things to Do, Things to Do, Taylor Tomlinson, comedy in Detroit, Netflix, Fox Theatre
Movies

Chloe Domont’s ‘Fair Play’ depicts a hedge fund girlboss and her disaffected fiance with uneven results

As the tables turn

By Kayla McCulloch
Sep 28, 2023

Tags: Movies, Movies, Chloe Domont, Netflix, Alden Ehrenreich, Phoebe Dynevor
Arts

Delo Brown is Detroit’s new princess of comedy

The Motor City-born comedian will host the 313 Day Comedy Show Experience

By Alex Washington
Mar 10, 2023

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts & Culture, Things to Do, Def Comedy Jam, Detroit Day, 313 Day, Revolt, Revolt TV, Netflix, Netflix Comedy Special, Chris Rock
Metro Detroit

Netflix dating show ‘Love is Blind’ is looking for Detroit contestants

The speed-dating show is on its fourth season

By Colin Wolf, Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Nov 14, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit, Television, Love is Blind, Detroit, Netflix
Movies

In Netflix’s Marilyn Monroe biopic ‘Blonde,’ celebrity feels hollow

The Ana de Armas-starring film treats the life of the icon as something to puzzle over exhaustively, but remains deeply off-balance in a way that feels thin

By George Elkind
Sep 26, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Marilyn Monroe, Netflix, Blonde, Ana de Armas
Television

Tim Robinson’s demented ‘I Think You Should Leave’ renewed for third season on Netflix

We're all trying to find the guy who did this and give him a spanking!

By Lee DeVito
May 6, 2022

Tags: Television, Arts & Culture, I Think You Should Leave, Netflix, comedy, Tim Robinson, Sam Richardson, Detroiters
Culture

The cast of Netflix's 'Cheer' will bring live show to Detroit this summer

By Alex Washington
Jan 28, 2022

Tags: Culture, Cheer, live show, michigan lottery ampitheater, cheerleading, netflix
Music News

Comedian Whitney Cummings wants to touch it at back to back performances at the Royal Oak Music Theatre

By Jerilyn Jordan
Nov 10, 2021

Tags: City Slang, Whitney Cummings, comedy, Royal Oak, Netflix
Arts

Comedian and elder millennial Iliza Shlesinger might tell jokes about party goblins and lying boyfrieds at the Crofoot

By Jerilyn Jordan
Jul 24, 2021

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, The Scene, Iliza Shlesinger, Comedy, stand-up, Netflix, Last Comic Standing, Crofoot

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