Today marks the groundbreaking of what will surely be Royal Oak’s most dynamic new economic magnet/instant parking nightmare, as the aggressively future forward Emagine Movie theater chain puts the first shovels into the ground at their long rumored new location, behind the Main Art Theater in the heart of South East Michigan’s largest out...
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As an entertainment writer my inbox gets clogged with press releases fairly quickly , usually at a rate of three or four a week. Most of them proclaim that shooting has started on the latest Micheal Bay epic, or that weepy Ben Affleck has begun personally scrubbing turtles clean in the gulf, that sort...
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Here’s a short film made by Inception’s creator, Christopher Nolan, back when Batman was only a gleam in his adolescent eye.
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I stumbled across this YouTube video that makes a clever discovery about Inception’s soundtrack… …that the throbbing ominous score is in fact a slowed down version of Edith Piaf singing “Je Ne Regrette Rien” … which is, in turn, featured in the film as a key memory for Cobb about his wife’s death… and...
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I’d like to say that my film career began when Tom, a casting executive for the upcoming Richard Gere film The Double, was tooling around town and saw me from afar. I wish I could say that, enraptured by my beauty and radiant talent, he stopped me on the street and insisted that I...
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Metro Times film critic and overall culture mouth Corey Hall dishes dirt on the weekend’s big new releases each Friday morning on WRIF’s Drew and Mike show, with rock ‘n’ roll news queen Trudi Daniels. After the jump, scroll down to hear Corey’s take on the mind warping, non stop  action blockbuster INCEPTION: http://www.wrif.com/podcasts/Episodes.
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This is really nothing at all, but really something huge for a kid with a record collection: I was 14, crammed down stage-front staring straight at Iggy’s black suede Beatle Boots, “Knockin’ ‘em Down in the City’ or something crashing all around, head-to-toe goosebumps. It was the Ig’s Soldier tour, a punk-rock-heaven stop at...
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I make no excuses for who I am as a critic and a person. My politics, my world-view, my life experiences shape me as a human being and therefore inform how I view and review movies. Still, I try to temper those influences with my love and understanding of cinema. Quality of writing, filmmaking...
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On Friday, September 3rd, Iggy and the Stooges will put themselves “In the Hands of Fans,” or so says MVD Entertainment Group. The media company launched this site to offer die-hard Stooge heads of any age the chance to film and interview Ig and the band. What’s more, you’ll be able to shoot them...
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(Ed. ) MT film critics Corey Hall and Jeff Meyers both reviewed Cyrus because the movie’s so sweet that it warranted two reviews. Fuckin’ a; the frolicsome  John C. Reilly and the ever-fetching Marisa Tomei? That’s right. Meyers’ take is online now in the MT film section and will appear in the print version...
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