Traverse City Ultimate Vacations

The crowd-pleasing, award-sweeping, feel-good-movie of the year is getting an extended run at the State. "Slumdog Millionaire" - which took home Golden Globes last Sunday for Best Director, Best Picture, Best Original Score and Best Screenplay - will play through January 29, thanks to popular demand. If you haven't had ...

Today is the last day in our annual marathon of holiday films. Before you bundle up and head out to family gatherings and church services tonight, bring the relatives out for a special screening of "It's a Wonderful Life" (at 1:00 p.m.) or "White Christmas" (at 3:30 p.m.). Seeing these ...

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced its list of 2008 Golden Globe nominees this morning. Leading the pack in nominations: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Doubt" and "Frost/Nixon" with five nominations and "The Reader," "Revolutionary Road," "Vicky Cristina ...

The cynic in me hates to admit it, but if I have to choose between optimism and pessimism, I go for the glass that's half-full every time. Life's too beautiful and short to entertain prolonged doom-and-gloom about our pithy existence on this planet. However, a few decades around other humans ...

Congratulations to the St. Francis Warriors, who won their Division 7 state championship football game against the Ubly Bearcats this morning. Thanks to a great offense by the Warriors and a number of critical errors by the Bearcats, St. Francis handily won the title, 41-13. The game was broadcast live ...

To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Traverse City Record-Eagle, the State Theatre is showing five of the best newspaper-themed films of all time this week. It's a stellar lineup, including a number of films with personal significance to me and a few can't miss-events for film ...

There's a great article in this month's issue of Moving Pictures Magazine about the Traverse City Film Festival. Author Judy Sandra gives background on the festival, talks about film and guest highlights from this year's event and shares her thoughts on the 2008 lineup. You can check out the article ...

Musical comedy goes divine in "Hamlet 2" There will be a free screening of our hilarious first-run feature, "Hamlet 2," for high school and college students tonight at 7 p.m. at the State. The screening is sponsored by Northwestern ...

Television, in particular news television, has become increasingly problematic the past several years. While some would argue the popularity of 24-hour news channels like CNN and Fox News means a higher percentage of Americans are tuned in to current events, others have countered (like the directors of "War Made Easy") that ...

Be sure to check out these upcoming film events at The Art Place's new home in downtown Traverse City, located in the basement of the Weaver Building at 122 South Union St. TAP has some cool screenings and animation classes for children and students coming up this fall - read ...