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Watch big flicks; keep cool in car
At the end of this summer, take a break from the costly, crowded atmosphere of your local 28-screen megaplex. Imagine a night under the stars instead, enjoying the company of your friends, the quiet hum of your automobile and the pleasure of seeing two films for the price of one. By doing so, you'll also be supporting a dying Michigan tradition - of the once more than 150 drive-in movie theaters in the state, less than 15 survive. "The exhibition business has been forced into (building multiplexes) in a lot of degrees because of the distribution of films and the way studios are," said Gary Ritzenthaler, a Wixom resident and drive-in enthusiast who operates a Web site about historical places in Michigan.
'Wedding Crashers' fails to deliver solid plot line
It's a sad day for Hollywood comedy when good character actors skilled at improvisation are sidelined by terrible writing and dreadful plot lines. "Wedding Crashers" could have been a good film.
'Rory' focuses on courageous characters
Enter Michael Connolly's world. At 24 years old, he's already pegged as a lifelong resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled.
At the drive-in
This summer, take a break from the costly, crowded atmosphere of your local 28-screen megaplex. Imagine a night under the stars instead, enjoying the company of your friends, the quiet hum of your automobile and the pleasure of seeing two films for the price of one.
'The Interpreter' follows U.S. foreign intervention
Watching director Sydney Pollack's latest film, "The Interpreter," is like walking down a street where you hear a dozen languages, and not one of them your native tongue. It's this notion of incomprehension, lost translation, and mystique that propels Pollack's film, but also leaves it feeling slightly rough around the edges. Nicole Kidman is African-born U.N.
