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In ‘Unfrosted,’ Jerry Seinfeld gives the Pop-Tart an absurd origin story

Jim Gaffigan dishes on the Netflix film, which takes creative liberties with the Michigan-made tale

By Adam Davidson
Apr 25, 2024

Tags: Movies, Movies, Television, LOL, Kellogg’s, Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, Battle Creek, Grand Rapids
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‘Challengers’ teases with competitive tennis and sweltering sexy times, but falls short of euphoria

Luca Guadagnino is ever the stealthy queer filmmaker

By Craig D. Lindsey
Apr 25, 2024

Tags: Movies, Views & Opinions, LGBTQ+, Luca Guadagnino, Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, Mike Faist
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Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’ shows us a violent, fractured America — but despite the verisimilitude, needs more specifics

Filmmaker Alex Garland says that he wants to prompt conversation, and by not making explicit what either side of the conflict represents, he perhaps allows for at least a tentative reach across the yawning divide

By Cliff Froehlich
Apr 12, 2024

Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Alex Garland, Kirsten Dunst, Nick Offerman

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Freep Film Festival features Michigan-centric flicks including doc on songwriter Allee Willis

The festival features more than 20 feature-length documentaries and nearly 50 events

By Lee DeVito
Apr 8, 2024

Tags: Movies, Critics’ Picks, Music, Detroit Free Press, Allee Willis, Free Film Festival
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Star-turned-director Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ whips up a whirlwind of expressionist violence

Why does this feature directorial debut feel like such a breath of fresh air?

By Andrew Wyatt
Apr 5, 2024

Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Dev Patel, Jordan Peele, John Wick
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‘Godzilla x Kong’ is another forgettable chapter in the MonsterVerse

These films have a tendency to evaporate from your memory once you’re done with the cinematic carnage

By Craig D. Lindsey
Apr 1, 2024

Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Warner Bros., Legendary Pictures, MonsterVerse, King Kong, Godzilla
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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
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Sydney Sweeney shows her star power in ‘Immaculate,’ a batshit psycho-thriller just like they used to make

The actress-influencer reunites with director Michael Mohan for this nasty, nutty nunsploitation flick

By Craig D. Lindsey
Mar 15, 2024

Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Sydney Sweeney, Michael Mohan, horror films
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‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ lacks the joys of the franchise’s earlier installments

While some may see the hijinks as enjoyable, computer-animated tomfoolery, this sequel doesn’t bring anything new to the table

By Craig D. Lindsey
Mar 7, 2024

Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Jack Black, Awkwafina, Viola Davis
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‘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
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The epic ‘Dune: Part Two’ tackles the perils of playing with faith, politics, and power

This might be the most clear-eyed film about saviors and schisms since ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian.’ (Seriously.)

By Andrew Wyatt
Feb 26, 2024

Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Dune, sci-fi movies, Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Denis Villeneuve, Video
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Detroit’s Redford Theatre to screen sci-fi classic ‘Blade Runner’

The event will include a memorabilia raffle, illustrated prints available for purchase, and a pre-show DJ

By Lee DeVito
Feb 23, 2024

Tags: Movies, Critics’ Picks, Movies, Things to Do, Redford Theatre, metro Detroit movie theaters, metro Detroit arthouse theaters
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Ethan Coen teams up with wife Tricia Cooke for road trip comedy ‘Drive-Away Dolls’

This sapphic jam puts lesbians in the driver’s seat

By Cliff Froehlich
Feb 21, 2024

Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, LGBTQ+, Car Culture, Coen Brothers, Ethan Coen, Tricia Cooke, Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Video
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‘The Taste of Things’ celebrates good food, France, and the ever-wonderful Juliette Binoche

Tran Ahn Hung has made a movie about gastronomy that is, at heart, a love story

By Chuck Wilson
Feb 8, 2024

Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Tran Ahn Hung, Video
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‘Argylle’ has no shortage of starpower, but it’s wasted on this overstuffed spy caper

‘Kingsman’ director Matthew Vaughn offers up another espionage romp

By Craig D. Lindsey
Feb 1, 2024

Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Argylle, Dua Lipa, Matthew Vaughn, Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Video
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Detroit’s Senate Theater celebrates Chicano History Week with free screening of ‘American Homeboy’

The film draws from interviews with Mexican American historians, academics, artists, activists, cholos, and former law enforcement officers

By Layla McMurtrie
Jan 29, 2024

Tags: Movies, Critics’ Picks, Movies, Things to Do, Senate Theater, Southwest Detroit, Chicano History Week
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Jenna Ortega gives ‘Miller’s Girl’ her all, but it’s not enough

Not another teen temptress

By Craig D. Lindsey
Jan 25, 2024

Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Jenna Ortega, Jade Halley Bartlett, Martin Freeman, Video
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In ‘Origin,’ Ava DuVernay turns Isabel Wilkerson’s exploration of racism, ‘Caste,’ into a gripping feature film

Here is a rare and excellent thing — a major dramatic feature about a Black woman intellectual

By Chuck Wilson
Jan 23, 2024

Tags: Movies, Views & Opinions, Ava DuVernay, racism, Isabel Wilkerson, Video
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‘All of Us Strangers’ is a ghost story with a bad ending

But the actors are all extraordinary

By Cliff Froehlich
Jan 17, 2024

Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers, movie reviews, Cliff Froehlich, Video
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‘The Zone of Interest’ radically upends the idea of a Holocaust movie — to brilliant effect

Nazis, they’re just like us

By Kayla McCulloch
Jan 4, 2024

Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer, Martin Amis, Video