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Efforts of film club keeps Upper Peninsula’s last drive-in open

MANISTIQUE — The Upper Peninsula Film Union is a nonprofit organization that most recognizably runs Highway 2 Community Drive-in Theater with the help of its volunteers and local sponsors. The group also has its own film club, which meets monthly to watch and discuss movies. Donations to the ...

‘Smile 2’ nicely targets pop star fame with the terrific Naomi Scott

In an early scene in “Smile 2,” the fictional pop superstar Skye Riley is in her drug dealer’s apartment. “Do you believe in weird stuff?” he asks her, between doing lines of coke. You certainly will after this horror romp — writer-director Parker Finn’s second movie that ...

‘Folie a Deux’ reckons with ‘The Joker’

Let’s put on a happy face, at least to start, for “Joker: Folie a Deux.” If there’s one undeniably compelling thing about both Todd Phillips’ divisive 2019 original and his new follow-up, it’s that these movies are best when they dance. The first movie might have been a muddled ...

Halloween superfans see the culture catching up to them

Home Depot was about to launch something big — really big — when the pandemic hit in the spring of 2020: a 12-foot skeleton. “There were a lot of internal discussions. It was like, is there going to be Halloween this year?” said Lance Allen, senior merchant of decorative holiday at ...