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'Detroit' on Fire in Kathryn Bigelow's Historic Drama

Kathryn Bigelow directs a sweaty immersion into the fear and chaos of 1960s racial violence in her new film Detroit. more

Aug 8, 2017 2:08 PM David Luhrssen Film Reviews

Film Clips: Aug. 3, 2017

The Dark Tower (Rated PG-13) Over the past decade, numerous efforts to bring Stephen King’s eight-novel series to the big screen fizzled before the project found a home at Sony. Planned as a fi, more

Aug 1, 2017 2:11 PM Lisa Miller Film Clips

What's Coming to the Multiplex This Summer?

An overview of movies scheduled for release in the summer of 2017. more

May 23, 2017 3:07 PM Daniel Barnes Film Reviews

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Protomartyr’s Ambivalent Rise

Protomartyr’s Joe Casey doesn’t mean to knock his band’s fans. He just sounds taken aback that they have fans. more

Oct 20, 2015 9:54 PM Andrew Penkalski Music Feature

"I'm a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit. My dad was head of a car company. I like American cars," said Mitt Romney when he met with President Obama to discuss foreign policy. "And I would do nothing to hurt... more

Oct 29, 2012 5:01 PM Joe Conason News Features

Stirring Up the Passion, Or Maybe Not

Slim Pickens, in Blazing Saddles, twanged it best: “What in the wahd, wahd world of sports is a-goin' on here?” Three weeks ago the Bucks were on a roll—six wins in eight games, including two over Miami—and playing with energ more

Feb 22, 2012 12:00 AM Frank Clines More Sports

Milwaukee Musicians Band Together

Jeff Castelaz was one of Milwaukee\'s best rock critics in the early \'90s before going into music management and moving to LA. After his six-year old, Pablo Thraikill Castelaz, died of cancer, he organized the Pablove Foundation to help fund c.. more

Nov 30, 2011 4:56 PM Shepherd Express Staff I Hate Hollywood

A Whiff of Injustice

William Dillon was released in November after 26 years in prison when a DNA test rul Detroit News ,Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird more

Aug 12, 2009 12:00 AM Chuck Shepherd Around MKE

Oliver Stone's W.

When he last turned to presidential biography for his subject, director Oliver Stone transformed the reign of Richard M. Nixon into Shakespearean tragedy. With W., his insightfully funny satire of George W. Bush, Stone turns the bumbling but affa.. more

Oct 16, 2008 4:00 AM Shepherd Express Staff I Hate Hollywood