Del Shores (Sordid Lives) returns to the screen with an adaptation of his hilarious and heartbreaking play, Southern Baptist Sissies, the story of four gay boys who grew up in the Southern Baptist church and the journey each takes in balancing their homosexuality with church teachings. Developing from confused […]
Crime drama/thriller Easy Money II: Hard to Kill is a sequel, but not to worry, the skillful use of flashbacks allows someone who hasn’t seen the original Easy Money (aka Snabba Cash, 2010) to follow events easily. As the movie opens, JW (again played by Joel Kinnaman) is […]
The last of our French Film February series is Vic + Flo ont vu un ours (Vic + Flo saw a bear). Victoria (Pierrette Robitaille) is a parolee who retreats to her ailing uncle’s sugar shack in the Quebec woods. She is joined by current love interest and […]
We are both fairly recent converts to silent film, and like most converts we want to share our discovery with the world. Because of this — and also because February 2014 is the 100th anniversary of Charlie Chaplin’s eternal character The Tramp — we are presenting SILENTS IN […]
As you may have gathered from our logo, we embrace Detroit’s French roots. We are fans of France in general, and French film in particular. So we’re pleased to present four contemporary Francophone films in February: Pauline détective, Mariage à Mendoza, Girl on a bicycle, and Vic + […]
We are thrilled to present not one, but two, Detroit-made films, and their directors, in one week! One night only – WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18 at 8:00 p.m. Detroit Threat Management (2012) NR - 87 min - Tickets $5 Detroit filmmaker Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman spent more than two years embedded […]
by Steve Press Toward the end of my 5-year exile in Nashua, NH, I had laparoscopic surgery to repair a hiatal hernia. I survived the first post-surgical week on a liquid diet. Now, if you think, as I did, that “liquid diet” means a 3-martini lunch, or making […]
On December 29, 1940, FDR coined the phrase “The Arsenal of Democracy” in a speech declaring that the United States would provide military aid to countries fighting the global threats of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. While he was referring to America as a whole, Detroit has rightfully […]
In this post, Steve Press tells how one night in the Bronx in 1972, he had brush with fame. * * * Before I left New York for the Six Square Miles Surrounded by Reality in sunny Michigan, I worked in the South Bronx. At my last job, I was the […]
Detroiter Steve Press loves movies. In particular, he loves film noir. Here, he tells us why… *** MY LIFE: BASED ON A TRUE STORY (Or How I Got Into Film Noir) by Steve Press I’m probably older than most of you. Carbon dating says I was born in […]
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HELD OVER
The End of the Tour
NOW SHOWING
Mistress America
Chloe & Theo
Monday, Sept. 14 ONLY
THE ORBIT MAGAZINE ANTHOLOGY signing and screening PLUS Q & A
Tuesday, Sept. 15 ONLY
Enough to Live On: The Arts of the WPA plus Q & A with filmmakers
Starting Friday, Sept. 18
Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery
Wednesday, Sept. 23 ONLY
Arcade Fire: The Reflektor Tapes
