If you’ve shopped at Northland Mall or remember shopping at Hudson’s before it became Marshall Fields and, soon after, Macy’s, you should know who J. L. Hudson is.
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Offbeat director Gus Van Sant makes a return to the relative mainstream with the impressive new biopic “Milk,” starring Sean Penn, James Franco, Emile Hirsch and Josh Brolin. Penn portrays Harvey Milk, the first openly gay public official in the United States.
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Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman makes his directorial debut in the new film “Synecdoche, New York,” starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Hoffman is Caden Cotard, a hypochondriac playwright and theater director who begins to question the mundane nature of his life, his marriage and his derivative work in the theater.
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With latest film, director Boyle stays true to himself
From drug addicts to zombies to Indian slum residents, director Danny Boyle's filmography certainly isn't lacking for diversity.
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The Detroit Film Theater presented Masaki Kobayashi's epic film "The Human Condition" in one session 12pm-10:30pm Nov. 9.
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Marc Forster’s “Quantum of Solace” was not made in an industry where James Bond films set the standard for action-spy thrillers; it was made in the age of Jason Bourne, and it shows.
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It is one of the most astonishing and inspirational survival stories of our time. On Oct. 13, 1972, young rugby team members from Montevideo, Uruguay, boarded a plane for a match in Chile — when all of a sudden, they vanished into thin air.
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Celebrated B-movie actor, director and producer Bruce Campbell will be screening his new film “My Name is Bruce” on Nov. 21, 22, and 23 at Royal Oak's Main Art Theater.
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Michigan residents are thinking about stem cell research more than usual, especially with the passing of Proposal 2 — Proposal 2008-02: A proposed constitutional amendment to permit, with certain limitations, stem cell research in Michigan was on the Nov. 4 ballot.
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Zack and Miri is one of the raunchiest romantic comedies to date, but underneath the sex, bad language, and nudity is something surprisingly sweet and wholesome.
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‘Rachel Getting Married’
After a short foray into documentary filmmaking, director Jonathan Demme (“The Silence of the Lambs,” “Philadelphia”) returns to feature film with “Rachel Getting Married,” starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie Dewitt and Tunde Adebimpe.
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“XXY”
“XXY,” the directorial debut from Lucia Puenzo, reveals the aggressive curiosity of gender without eschewing the sensitive temperament of an adolescent hermaphrodite dealing with the conflict of social mores.
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“Appaloosa”
Actor Ed Harris returns to the director’s chair for the first time since 2000’s “Pollack” with the new western “Appaloosa,” starring alongside Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger and Jeremy Irons.
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Latest Shia LaBeouf film is painful to watch
“Eagle Eye” is painful to watch. In spite of its very few redeeming qualities, this film – the latest from the actor-director team of Shia LaBeouf and D.J. Caruso – not only hurts the eyes, but also the stomach and brain.
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‘Alexandra’ explores the Russia-Chechnya conflict
The Friends of the Detroit Film Theater presented “Alexandra” on Oct. 24. The film marked the second installment in the Discussion on Film Series at the Detroit Film Theater.
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Organization shows dangers of narcotic abuse through movies
Some lives may have changed in a small viewing room in the Student Center on a rainy Tuesday evening. It was as simple as projecting a film. Anti-Drug Wayne recently put on one of their first film presentations open to the students titled “Requiem for a Dream” on Oct. 21.
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