No Surprise, M. Night Shyamalan’s Latest Is Long, Slow and Disappointing. The "Sixth Sense" director has resuscitated his career more times than most, but this latest supernatural thriller feels like a tired remix of letdowns like 'Signs'…

by Martha Suitt, Pulp The 2023 Washtenaw Read is Such a Fun Age by University of Michigan professor Kiley Reid, whose plot-driven novel details what happens and how people feel amidst misunderstandings and omissions…

by Jenn McKee A stage musical based on a beloved film classic—like, say, A Christmas Story: The Musical, now being staged at Dexter’s Encore Theatre—can be a double-edged sword. Yes, it’s a known commodity, so people…

As the women of Wakanda, led by Letitia Wright's Shuri, struggle to fill the void T'Challa has left, Coogler stages less a typical Marvel movie than an intricately doom-laden geopolitical thriller. by Owen Geiberman When Chadwick…

A pampered Daddy’s princess and a financially frazzled single father find themselves in a fix in this heartwarming holiday film. by Courtney Howard Audiences who click play on Netflix’s “Falling for Christmas” will be the…

Illuminated artist installations, pop-up performances, luminary procession, and live music arehighlights at this favorite downtown Ypsilanti event. Ypsilanti shines bright at the 7th Annual ypsiGLOW on Friday, October 28 on N.…

Tilda Swinton plays a mother and daughter struggling to connect through mutual reticence in the 'Souvenir' director's similarly withholding ghost story. by Jessica King A mysterious nighttime mist swirls through Joanna Hogg’s…

A performance of Agatha Christie's long-running stage smash "The Mousetrap" yields a backstage murder mystery of its own in this most enjoyable all-star comedy. by Amy Nicolson Agatha Christie, master of deduction, was wrong only…

by Martha Stuit, Pulp When author Angeline Boulley wrote her new young adult novel, Firekeeper’s Daughter, she had a goal for the thriller. She writes about her main character, Daunis Fontaine, in her Author’s Note: …

by Martha Stuit, Pulp Characters in Lydia Conklin’s Rainbow Rainbow perch on the precipice of something—a decision, a change, the start or end of a relationship, or even the dangerous cliff above a quarry where people…