Frank Pahl

"The Bilbao Effect"

Lead-off track from a collection of prepared piano pieces by Detroiter Frank Pahl (Little Bang Theory, Only a Mother, etc.). Balinese gamelan masters meet Philip Glass in a music box. Listen! —W. Kim Heron

• Man on a Ledge Might as well jump - he sort of movie where plainclothes cops bark at each about who's in charge | 1/26/2012
• Touch me, babe Look beyond shows about filthy hoarders, creepy toddlers and broken housewives! | 1/25/2012
• Outrage Lights out! - Takeshi Kitano's ultimate statement on the stupid, pointless and amoral bloodlust of human nature | 1/25/2012
• Red Tails Auto pilot - George Lucas' dream gets lost in the skies | 1/19/2012
• Haywire Chick kicks - Gina Carano pummels Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor and Channing Tatum and she's ready for more | 1/19/2012
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Bombs away - Heavy-handed metaphors fall like sledgehammers, but first-timer Thomas Horn kicks ass | 1/19/2012
• The Mill and the Cross Really getting into art - A meditation on the creative process | 1/18/2012
• A Dangerous Method Freud, Jung and a mistress - Hear the one about the founders of psychoanalysis? | 1/18/2012
• Pariah Kissed a girl | 1/18/2012
• Joyful Noise Praise the clichés- Country, gospel, pop and hokum | 1/13/2012
• Contraband One last caper - Mark Wahlberg as a smuggling anti-hero | 1/13/2012
• The Iron Lady Woman of mettle - Meryl Streep outclasses another ho-hum flick | 1/13/2012
• Beauty and the Beast Disney retrofit - Smart fairy tale gets a new dimension | 1/13/2012
• Carnage Crying Woolf - The ferocity of couples gets a close-up under Roman Polanski's exacting eye | 1/11/2012
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Quiet desperation - Gary Oldman in a surprisingly humane portrait of folks regularly engaging in acts of inhumanity | 1/9/2012
• Split screens How the Burton Theatre became the Cass City Cinema and the Corktown Cinema | 1/9/2012