The Cove (movie)

The film, "State Debate," (working title, "Basis of Decision"),  a film shot on location in Northern Michigan during the spring of 2011 by Petoskey grad Erich Rettstadt, will have its U.S. premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival in California on...

Amid the splintered drum sticks and empty coffee cups littering his Northridge recording studio, Dave Grohl contemplated the enormous mixing desk before him. The Foo Fighters frontman looked at the seemingly endless rows of faders and dials on the...

Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin star in "Stand Up Guys," a buddy comedy about a trio of wise guys coming out of retirement for one last roll of the dice. Frankly, they had me at Pacino, Walken and Arkin. Despite long and wide-ranging...

'Art in the Mills' Nine artists are featured in a multicultural art show running through Sunday, Sept. 25, at The Other Barn, Oakland Mills Village Center, 5851 Robert Oliver Place. A reception from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sept. 25 will include refreshments,...

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The Directors Guild of America on Saturday night named Kathryn Bigelow best director of 2009 for " The Hurt Locker." Not only is it the first guild win for the 58-year-old filmmaker, it is the first time a woman has won the award. "This is the most...

How does one expose the secret systematic slaughter of 23,000 dolphins? It helps to have a billionaire, plus a dedicated activist, a neophyte filmmaker, two of the world's best free-divers, a former avionics specialist from the Canadian Air Force, a...

TAIJI, Japan — As children in inner tubes bob on the calm waters of this small ocean cove, a 550-pound dolphin zips through the crowd in pursuit of raw squid tossed out by a trainer. Niru, a Risso's dolphin caught......

TAIJI, Japan — Residents of the dolphin-hunting village depicted in Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove" have high mercury levels, likely because of their fondness for dolphin and whale meat, a government lab said Sunday. The levels of mercury...

TOKYO — A movie theater in Tokyo decided against showing the dolphin-hunt documentary "The Cove" after nationalist pressure and warnings of protests, the distributor said Thursday. In recent months, activists have protested and screamed slogans...

TOKYO — Controversy over "The Cove," an Oscar-winning documentary about the annual dolphin hunt in a Japanese village, has widened into a debate over free speech in the country. Three theaters last week canceled showings of the movie after they......

TOKYO — A court Friday ordered protesters to keep away from a theater that plans to show the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove," about a dolphin hunt in a Japanese village. The movie shows scenes of the bloody but legal dolphin......