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Local Woman Receives Television Academy Foundation Internship

Current Staff

Twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Curney of Wixom, Michigan, a military veteran who at one point in her life experienced homelessness, has received her first big career...

The Thunder Rolls: Actors, Director Discuss Thor: Love and Thunder

Kurt Anthony Krug

For Oscar winner Natalie Portman, it was surreal for her to not only return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, reprising her role as Dr....

Movie Review Top Gun: Maverick

Mature Living Magazine

A pioneering feminist filmmaker looks back

Jeff Glick

A conversation with Ariel Dougherty is both inspirational and enlightening. She has been at the apex of women's films, both in terms of women...

Filmmaker endows new award at Ann Arbor Fest

Jeff Glick

A conversation with Amy Moore is peppered with references to her love for both film and Africa. This is fitting, as her generosity has...

Coming of Age – Stories of Senior and Noteworthy Detroiters

Lyndsay White

Coming of Age is an award-winning docuseries from Silver Screen Studios about inspirational seniors from Metro Detroit who thrive in their old age. According...

UM Alumnus and Natalie Martinez Star in “Ordinary Joe”

Kurt Anthony Krug

Natalie Martinez’s role as Amy on NBC’s Ordinary Joe is far from ordinary. “I just loved the idea and the concept of the show that...

J.K. Simmons talks about being in three films this month

Kurt Anthony Krug

By Kurt Anthony Krug Originally, Grosse Pointe native/Oscar-winning actor J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) was leery of playing I Love Lucy co-star William Frawley in Being the...

A Detroit Native Who Decided to Risk it All During COVID-19

Digital Media

Born in Detroit, then starting school in Southern California and returning to Detroit at the age of eight, Eric “Protein” Moseley's path wasn't always...

A Michigan actor’s connection to Marvel’s Fantastic Four

Kurt Anthony Krug

As disappointed as Eastern Michigan University alumnus/actor Michael Bailey Smith was back in 1993 when he learned The Fantastic Four movie he co-starred in...

Let’s Do the Time Warp Again at Michigan Theater

Kurt Anthony Krug

The antici––pation is over! So come on up to the lab – or rather the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor on Friday, Oct. 29, at...

Manhattan Short Film Festival Takes Place at Emagine Theater September 29, October 3

Current Contributer

The Manhattan Short Film Festival gives audience members a chance to vote for their favorite film to qualify for an Oscar.