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Film Review: The Source Family

Film Review: The Source Family

0 Marcus Erridge / June 13, 2013 8:00 am

This extraordinary documentary truly tests the theory that truth is stranger than fiction. You would be hard pushed to invent a story as bizarre and outrageous as the life and times of Jim Baker (aka Father Yod) and The Source… [Read More]

Locally Made Film ‘Gibsonburg’ Opens This Weekend

Locally Made Film ‘Gibsonburg’ Opens This Weekend

0 Hope Madden / June 6, 2013 11:00 am

Bob Mahaffey knows a good story when he hears it. He’s hoping to prove he knows how to tell one, too. “I just have a wonderful, beautiful story for you,” says the owner of the Dublin-based software training company Xcelerate… [Read More]

The Wex Brings 70mm of Clarity to The Master

The Wex Brings 70mm of Clarity to The Master

0 Hope Madden / June 6, 2013 8:10 am

See The Master as the greatest living American filmmaker (that’s right, I said it!) meant it to be seen. The Wexner Center for the Arts is the first theater in Ohio to screen Paul Thomas Anderson’s phenomenal film in the… [Read More]

Greta Gerwig Acts, Writes, Dances, Talks to Columbus Underground

Greta Gerwig Acts, Writes, Dances, Talks to Columbus Underground

1 Hope Madden / May 30, 2013 8:00 am

Filmmaker Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) teams up once again with indie cinema’s It Girl, Greta Gerwig. Three years ago Gerwig co-starred – and utterly charmed – in Baumbach’s Greenberg. For their newest effort, Frances Ha, the pair… [Read More]

Gateway Film Center Announces New Restaurant Concept

Gateway Film Center Announces New Restaurant Concept

7 Walker / May 25, 2013 7:20 pm

The Gateway Film Center announced yesterday evening that they will be partnering with local restauranteur Elizabeth Lessner to relaunch their in-house restaurant and bar offerings. Few details have been made available about the new concept, but it is said to… [Read More]

Summer outdoor movies to enjoy under the stars

Summer outdoor movies to enjoy under the stars

5 Anne / May 24, 2013 8:00 am

The weather is nice enough that outdoor movie viewings and get-togethers have returned for 2013. The outdoor movie season starts tonight in Bexley with Madagascar 3. So get your favorite drinks, pop up some popcorn, get out the blankets and… [Read More]

Studio Movie Grill to Replace Arena Grand Theatre

Studio Movie Grill to Replace Arena Grand Theatre

19 Walker / May 24, 2013 7:00 am

Downtown’s main movie theater will be undergoing a management change for the second time since it opened 12 years ago in 2001. Nationwide Realty Investors (developers of The Arena District) announced this morning that Dallas-based Studio Movie Grill will be… [Read More]

Cinevent 45: A Celebration of Classic Film and Memorabilia

Cinevent 45: A Celebration of Classic Film and Memorabilia

0 Nicholas Herum / May 23, 2013 11:30 am

This Memorial Day weekend Columbus will again host a unique film related event that many Columbus residents have probably never heard of called Cinevent. Returning for an amazing 45th year Cinevent is a four day celebration of film that includes… [Read More]

Film Review: Star Trek Into Darkness

Film Review: Star Trek Into Darkness

0 Nicholas Herum / May 17, 2013 1:00 pm

Ten years ago Star Trek was in the final stages of a long, debilitating fight with old age. Stagnancy had robbed the once great franchise of its life and by 2005 Star Trek was gone from theaters and TV for… [Read More]

Gateway’s Indie Film Showcase Cures the Blockbuster Blahs

Gateway’s Indie Film Showcase Cures the Blockbuster Blahs

0 Hope Madden / May 9, 2013 8:00 am

Already tired of blockbuster season? The Gateway Film Center has just the remedy. Their Independent Film Showcase launches this week, running May 9 to May 16. This edition of the semiannual event screens seventeen flicks you’d be hard pressed to… [Read More]

Film Review: The Great Gatsby

Film Review: The Great Gatsby

1 Hope Madden / May 9, 2013 8:00 am

A Moulin Rouge spin on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tale of decadence, longing, and the brutal carelessness of the wealthy could have been awesome. Isn’t that what we kind of expected when Rouge helmsman Baz Luhrmann signed on to direct The… [Read More]

CAPA announces 43rd annual Summer Movie Series

CAPA announces 43rd annual Summer Movie Series

2 Anne / May 7, 2013 2:00 pm

The CAPA Summer Movie Series has announced the film line-up for 2013. It will feature three Hitchcock films The Robert Redford and Mia Farrow version of The Great Gatsby, all in all, 27 different films over nine weeks. The series… [Read More]

Gahanna’s Cinemark Movies 16 Gets a Facelift

Gahanna’s Cinemark Movies 16 Gets a Facelift

3 Nicholas Herum / May 4, 2013 2:55 pm

Gahanna’s Cinemark Movies 16 located in the Stoneridge Shopping Center at the corner of Morse Road and North Hamilton Road is in the final stages of a long overdue makeover. Since opening in the fall of 1995, Movies 16 hasn’t… [Read More]

Film Review: Iron Man 3

Film Review: Iron Man 3

0 Nicholas Herum / May 3, 2013 3:25 pm

On top of being a huge hit 2008’s Iron Man solidified Robert Downy Jr.’s comeback by making him a full-fledged superstar again plus got the ball rolling on what would become the Avengers franchise. Since then an underwhelming Iron Man… [Read More]

Film Review: Mud

Film Review: Mud

0 Hope Madden / April 25, 2013 10:40 am

Jeff Nichols’s criminally underseen Take Shelter was the best film of 2011. Poetic and understated, steeped in the mores of small town Ohio, this story of a man haunted by visions of the apocalypse benefitted from a treatment fully at… [Read More]