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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]
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]
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]
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 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]
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]
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]
Oblivion is a stunning Sci-Fi adventure starring Tom Cruise as a drone repair man who battles unseen foes in an apocalyptic future earth. So it’s been a tough few decades. An alien attack has destroyed the moon, and the earth… [Read More]
If Danny Boyle’s directing career was a novel and each chapter represented a different film from his career, I think most would agree that there was a different author for each chapter. Boyle doesn’t stick to just a couple of… [Read More]
The sun is shining, the air is warm – it must be spring. If that puts you in the mood to play ball, you sound just like Dave Filipi, Director of Film/Video at the Wexner Center for the Arts. This… [Read More]
Back in ’81, tenderhearted Ash and his beloved Linda – both Michigan State fans – hopped in the old Oldsmobile Delta and headed into the Tennessee woods for a relaxing weekend with buddies Scott and Shelly, and Ash’s bitchy sister… [Read More]
The coolest vampire – and among the first – ever to grace the big screen gets a makeover this weekend, courtesy of composer Andrew Alden, and you can check it out at the Gateway Film Center (1551 N. High St.)…. [Read More]
Wildly original filmmaker Quentin Dupieux’s newest “no reason” film Wrong opens in Columbus this weekend. The director’s feature debut, Rubber, depicted a car tire on a murderous rampage. I’ll pause and let that settle in for a second. Dupieux’s laid… [Read More]
If you haven’t seen Chan-wook Park’s twisted revenge fantasy Oldboy, do so immediately. I’ll wait. Amazing, isn’t it? Hell, his whole Vengeance Trilogy (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) inspires awe. Wildly inventive, punishing and entertaining, the… [Read More]
Doc Week returns to the Gateway Film Center, with fascinating, often harrowing true life tales to tell. It’s like Shark Week, with less midair seal chomping. According to Gateway president Chris Hamel, Columbus Documentary Week allows him to pursue a… [Read More]
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