There’s been a rash of Detroit documentaries lately, from locals with well fed Kickstarter accounts to seasoned vets submitting their takes on the city to the Sundance Film Festival. As the city’s buzz has intensified over the past several years, it seems everyone’s been trying to best document Detroit and what it all means....
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In Boy, the details are in the title. Yes, the main character’s nickname is Boy but it’s that eleven year old’s father who best lives up to the name. The film examines how a family of three Maori boys–a father and his two sons–cope with the death of their wife and mother in 1984 New...
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As baseball fever begins its summer-long grip on Michigan, the Urbane Life takes a look at our Top 5 Baseball Movies of All Time. Just like a good season of baseball, these films will make you laugh and cry and want to run around outside with your childhood friends under the summer sun. What’s...
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There’s been a rash of Detroit documentaries lately, from locals with well fed Kickstarter accounts to seasoned vets submitting their takes on the city to the Sundance Film Festival. As the city’s buzz has intensified over the past several years, it seems everyone’s been trying to best document Detroit and what it all means....
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The Hunger Games is a futuristic tale set in a post apocalyptic world where 13 districts are forced to participate in an annual event for rebelling 74 years earlier. A boy and girl are chosen from each destitute district and forced to fight to the death. The winner brings home a years worth of...
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What happens to a city after industry leaves? That’s the question “After the Factory” explores in a feature film that shows the regeneration process of two cities with remarkable similarities – Detroit, which is picking up itself after the downsizing and outsourcing have shrunk the automobile industry’s prominence in the labor force, and Lodz,...
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There’s been a rash of Detroit documentaries lately, from locals with well fed Kickstarter accounts to seasoned vets submitting their takes on the city to the Sundance Film Festival. As the city’s buzz has intensified over the past several years, it seems everyone’s been trying to best document Detroit and what it all means....
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What better way to end the hottest month of summer than with the hottest movie screenings in the Midwest? On August 26, Detroit will host its first erotic film festival, Detroit Independent Video Erotica (DIVE). Held at the Magic Stick on Woodward, DIVE will be a 2-hour showcase of international short films and videos. The...
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There’s been a rash of Detroit documentaries lately, from locals with well fed Kickstarter accounts to seasoned vets submitting their takes on the city to the Sundance Film Festival. As the city’s buzz has intensified over the past several years, it seems everyone’s been trying to best document Detroit and what it all means....
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The 84th annual Academy Awards ceremony starts at 8:30 tonight. The red carpet hooplah is probably going on right now. Music and Movies writer MJ Galbraith takes a look at some of the bigger categories and pretends like he knows who deserves to win. Actor in a Supporting Role Kenneth Branagh – My Week...
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In anticipation of the 84th Annual Academy Awards, Music and Movies writer MJ Galbraith combines the two for his Top 5 movie soundtracks of all time. Think he has it wrong? Let him know with your comments below. #5 The O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack accomplished a lot of things, least of which was...
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The Detroit Journal, a new series of short films that tell “true stories about real people in Detroit,” will celebrate their premiere of their first episode, “William Foster is a Good Man” at 7:00 p.m. on January 25, 2012. The premiere party is brought to you for free by the mysterious Detroit film collective 4exit4 Productions, and...
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