Progressive cinema clips: Cinetopia, Robeson film, "Chiraq"
Detroit area film lovers are being treated to a new version of the Cinetopia Film Festival, now in its fourth year and growing rapidly.
A would-be Gorbachev in the People’s Republic: “The Chinese Mayor”
This film is an insider's look at Geng Yanbo, the reform-minded mayor of Datong, one of the People's Republic of China's most polluted cities.
The cost of fame: “The Cult of JT Leroy"
The film shows how nonfiction becomes novelized, with dramatization and confabulation fobbed off as "news" and "truth."
Ray’s eye: The magnificent Apu Trilogy rides again
Before there was Bollywood or "The Mindy Project" there was Satyajit Ray, India's movie maestro.
Controversial Aloha co-stars Hawaiian independence leader
A lynch mob is attacking writer/director Cameron Crowe's new movie "Aloha," which opened May 29.
“Kung Fury”: 1980s-inspired action movie, released on YouTube
From the very first opening scene, you can tell that you are going to be in for some physics-defying action and fun.
In "Avengers: Age of Ultron," it's heroes vs. world peace
Though it shares a name with a saga from the comics, director Joss Whedon gives the film its own story, much more to offer than the previous outing.
Rushes to judgment: The top 10 assassination movies
To observe the sesquicentennial of Lincoln's liquidation, here are the Top 10 assassination/conspiracy films of all time.
Movies you might have missed: Missing
The 1982 film Missing, directed by Costa Gravas, dramatizes the case of Charles Harmon, an American freelance journalist, living and working in Chile.
"White Tiger": A movie you might have missed
This 2012 Russian mystery and action film examines a wartime legendary - or perhaps mythological - tank.
