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ARTS & STYLE The Detroit News | Wednesday, November 25, 2015 | 10A Michael B. Jordan, left, and Sylvester Stallone star in a Third Man new continuation of the Rocky film series in “Creed.” Jack White start BY ADAM GRAHAM Detroit News Pop Music Writer hen Third Man Re- cords opens its doors W in the Cass Corridor on Friday, it will be a home- coming and a new beginning for Jack White’s record label. The building, at 441 Canfield St. (next door to Shinola’s headquarters), isn’t far from the former site of the Gold Dollar, the now-shuttered space where the White Stripes played their first concert in August 1997. It will contain Adam Graham / Detroit News approximately The Detroit store on Canfield will 4,000 square sell vinyl goodies, trinkets and Warner Bros. Pictures / TNS feet of retail merchandise associated with space — rough- White’s Third Man Records. ly quadruple that of the White so patrons can come in and flagship Nash- watch records be pressed all ville location — and will house day, if they like, Blackwell says. and sell all the vinyl goodies, “And you’ll be able to walk 10 trinkets and merchandise feet and pull one of those re- associated with White’s Third cords off the shelf and buy it,” Man Records. he says. “I don’t think that In addition, and even more exists anywhere else in the HARD HITTING important to White’s vision, it world; I’m certainly unaware of will include a 10,000-square- it in the U.S.” foot vinyl record pressing Jack White opened Third plant, making it one of only Man Records in Nashville in Michael B. Jordan stars, ‘Rocky’ around 20 in the United States 2009, after relocating to Music and a few dozen in the world. City from the Motor City in revitalized in heartfelt ‘Creed’ The record pressing equip- 2005. Originally, he bought the ‘Creed’ ment is on its way from a man- building to store all his musical GRADE: B ylvester Stallone? Seriously? ufacturer in Germany and equipment but then started Rated PG-13 for Absolutely. Reprising the role that made won’t be up and running by playing with the space: What if violence, language S him famous, Stallone turns in an award-wor- Friday. But the long-term goal we were to put offices here, and and some sensuality thy performance in the “Rocky” reboot “Creed.” He is that the plant will be press- a stage over here? The retail Running time: doesn’t overplay things; he’s downright humble and, ing records 24 hours a day, space was a final thought, and 132 minutes let’s face it, kind of adorable. seven days a week, creating since it opened its doors, Third Not that he’s the center of the movie. That would be industry for workers in Detroit. Man has become a destination the estimable Michael B. Jordan as Adonis Johnson, the TOM LONG “That can be a serious num- for White fans, vinyl aficiona- illegitimate son of Apollo Creed, Rocky’s first opponent Detroit News ber of real American manu- dos and music geeks. and ultimate friend. After Apollo dies, Adonis ends up Film Critic facturing jobs coming to the There were no plans to in the state’s care, where he’s known for causing city. That’s exciting to me,” says expand the Third Man foot- fights. Eventually, he’s rescued by Apollo’s widow (Phylicia Ben Blackwell, Third Man’s print — it’s not a chain — but if Rashad) and brought up in comfort. co-founder. “Putting out re- there was going to be a second But comfort doesn’t suit Adonis. He’s working his way up cords is one thing, but manu- store, it was going to be in the ladder in the business world by day, but at night he facturing them is an entirely Detroit, Blackwell says. drives into Mexico to box in lowdown arenas where he’s different world.” Conversations about retail never beaten. Eventually, he decides he wants to box full The presses will be in full time. Who better to train and teach him than his father’s view of the store’s customers, Please see White, Page 11A friend and conqueror Rocky Balboa (Stallone)? So he moves to Philadelphia and finds the aged Rocky running a restaurant, completely retired from anything to do with boxing and uninterested in helping some kid train, even if he is the son of Apollo Creed. ‘Good Dinosaur’ From there the story goes exactly as you’d expect: Rocky eventually comes around, the kid turns out to have talent, he train-trains-trains, wins an upset victory and then suddenly — because of his blood- is solid family fare Please see ‘Creed’, Page 11A BY TOM LONG ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Detroit News Film Critic he Good Dinosaur” is GRADE: B a perfectly fine ani- Rated PG for peril, action “T mated kids’ movie. and thematic elements There’s nothing wrong with it and a great deal right with it, father puts him in charge of but it’s a lot less ambitious than trapping and killing a critter the last film from Pixar, the that has been stealing the corn. consciousness-exploring wild When the trap springs, Arlo ride “Inside Out.” has captured a human wild- Still, families will, and boy. He ends up setting it free. should, flock to this not-so- Then tragedy strikes Arlo’s gentle tale of a dinosaur and family. In the wake of it, he his boy on a road trip. The spies the boy again and gives animation is appropriately chase. Being clumsy, he falls wondrous, the landscape is into a river and, with the boy, filled with startling, eccentric gets swept far away. After a creatures, and the story, if series of calamities, Arlo teams occasionally harrowing and up with the boy, who he names dark in a “Lion King” way, is Spot, and Arlo tries to make his Michael B. essentially sweet and uplifting. way home. Spot is essentially Jordan plays the That story begins on earth Arlo’s dog. son of Rocky Barry Wetcher / Warner Bros. Pictures 65 million years ago, so cre- There are scary confronta- Balboa’s friend and ex-oppo- Up-and-coming boxer Adonis Johnson (Jordan), left, listens to ationists beware. Remember tions, kooky characters, and a nent in “Creed.” a long-retired Rocky Balboa (Stallone) in “Creed.” that meteor that was supposed sentimental ending you see to hit earth and wipe out all the coming from a mile away. But Barry Wetcher / AP dinosaurs? In this telling, the this is Pixar, and the visual meteor misses, so a few million delights are many — mountain- years later, when human types scapes that look absolutely start to pop up, the dinosaurs real, tiny creatures that flit by are still around. in a moment of wonder — and Tom Hardy is electrifying in ‘Legend’ double role More than that, they’re the 3-D is, for once, worth the farming. And so we come upon price. OK, it’s not pushing the BY ADAM GRAHAM he got ripped off. Arlo and his family, corn grow- boundaries of storytelling, but The Detroit News ‘Legend’ Beyond Hardy, however, ers. Arlo is sort of a runty green it certainly does the job. brontosaurus, clumsy and om Hardy gives two GRADE: B- “Legend” strikes an uneven [email protected] tremendous perform- balance. Writer-director Brian fearful. One day his kindly twitter.com/toomuchTomLong ances in “Legend,” the Rated R: for Helgeland, an Oscar winner T strong violence, for his “L.A. Confidential” brutally violent mixed bag language biopic of twin brothers throughout, script, mixes extreme violence, Reggie and Ronnie Kray, a some sexual and bursts of humor and a classic pair of notorious gangsters drug material rock soundtrack, but lacks the in 1960s London. Running time: finesse Scorsese brought to Hardy pulls double duty 131 minutes “Goodfellas.” His script, based and plays both brothers, and on John Pearson’s book “The it’s not just the gimmick of Profession of Violence: The the dual role — achieved via flawless Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins,” gets digital trickery — that makes his work so stuck repeating itself and begins to feel impressive. He breathes fire in both like a house of mirrors. While it shows roles and gives each of the brothers their the sad monotony of gangster life, dra- Universal Pictures / TNS own distinct personality, so they stand matically, it hits a dead end. Tom Hardy plays the roles of both London gangster on their own as characters. If Hardy Pixar / TNS twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray in “Legend.” didn’t pull two paychecks for the movie, Please see ‘Legend’, Page 11A Spot, left, and Arlo team up to get home in “The Good Dinosaur.” Contact us: You can reach Felecia D. Henderson, assistant managing editor, by calling (313) 222-2557, faxing (313) 496-5249 or at [email protected]..