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This Week: ‘I’m Your Woman’ Quietly Revisits the Peak of Hollywood Crime
The 1970s were prime for a New Hollywood crime wave. From Bonnie and Clyde’s 1967 success and the explosion of the movement, to the decade’s heightening political scandal and growing city crime...
This Week: ‘Collective’ Documentary Is As Thrilling as Any Narrative Shown on Screen
From Rosalind Russell’s command of the screen in His Girl Friday to the biting tensions of Spotlight, journalism has long captured the imagination of movie goers with a romanticized idea of the...
This Week: ‘Jingle Bell Rocks!’ is a unique holiday feature that is worthy of this unique holiday season
“Christmas music: you can love it or hate it, but you can’t really ignore it.” True words spoken by cult director John Waters in Mitchell Kezin’s 2013 documentary JINGLE BELL ROCKS!, and yet...
This Week: ‘Welcome to Commie High’ Offers an Intimate Public School Experience
As Thanksgiving dawns on us this year, it may be difficult to come to terms with the inability to gather with our family and catch up with old friends. But in this time we must find safer ways to...
This Week: ‘Coded Bias’ Sends Us to the Front Line of the Fight Against Discriminatory A.I.
H.A.L, Terminator, Replicants, Droids: this is what Hollywood has told us to expect from artificial intelligence in the 21st century. But today there are nine companies building A.I., all in the...
This Week: ‘Martin Eden’ Lingers Long Past the Credits in Our Virtual Movie Palace
In the excitement of being able to attend movies again at the Michigan and State over the past month, we hope that you haven’t forgotten about our Virtual Movie Palace (aka the “8th screen” we’ve...
This Week: ‘Tenet’ offers the distraction you need (and deserve)
With everything going on, and with little else to do but wait, what we could use right now is a good distraction. Unfortunately, the pick of the litter from Hollywood is somewhat limited as studios...
This Week: It’s Great to Have You Back as Spooky Season Comes to a Close
Like you all, I’ve missed seeing movies with an audience, and as a fan of all things Halloween and horror, I’m particularly thrilled that this week we have the chance to watch some classic movies...
This Week: ‘Resisterhood’ Calls for Urgent Action
Amidst the current strife and conflict, what a relief that our theaters are open. Movies are needed more than ever right now—not just for the escape, but because movies can offer a rallying cry and...
This Week: Sundance Selection ‘Aggie’ Celebrates “one of the great firefighters for justice”
“Art makes it possible for us to have empathy.” This is an especially important reminder right now as issues of social justice continue to be at the forefront of our conversations and arts...
This Week: ‘Once Upon a River’ is a Complex, Coming-of-Age Parable
If asked to provide a simple description of ONCE UPON A RIVER, the debut film from writer/director Haroula Rose adapted from the 2011 novel of the same name by Michigan author Bonnie Jo Campbell, I...
With Safety The Key Priority, Ann Arbor’s Historic Michigan And State Theaters To Reopen Friday, October 9
Having been closed since March 16th, nearly seven months, the historic Michigan Theater and State Theatre in downtown Ann Arbor will begin a safe and carefully thought-out reopening process on...
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