Mostly Solid Movie Options

Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins offer a master class in acting in this week’s highlight, but there’s really only one disappointment all week! The Father In theaters by George Wolf How much you’re moved by The Father will likely depend on how you see the central narrative device employed by director/co-writer Florian Zeller. Is it a gimmick […]
Wex’s Cinema Revival Goes Virtual

If there was going to be one annual film program unlikely to make the leap to virtual presentation, the Wexner Center for the Arts’ Cinema Revival would probably be the one, right? Their yearly celebration of the art and outcome of an industry’s painstaking efforts to find, preserve and archive film seems a misfit for […]
Awards Contenders Among This Week’s Movies

The rightly ballyhooed Nomadland finally makes its way to Columbus screens, big and small. There is a good variety of other options as well, most of them decent, a couple of them quite good. Here’s the low down. Nomadland by Hope Madden Nobody sees American poverty as honestly or as poetically as filmmaker Chloé Zhao. Those […]
Coronavirus Update: Curfew Ended, Jazz Fest Canceled, & More

Keep up with regular news updates regarding Columbus and Ohio’s response to COVID-19 here. The Numbers COVID-19 cases — In Columbus, 222 cases of COVID-19 were reported for Wednesday, Feb. 10. As of Thursday, Feb. 11, 76,747 total cases and 550 deaths from COVID-19 have been reported in Columbus and Worthington. In Franklin County at large, 338 […]
Hamilton to Return to Columbus in September

Broadway in Columbus has announced its updated season schedule. Many of the season’s previously announced shows, in partnership with Columbus Association for the Performing Arts, will run starting this fall, through spring 2022. However two shows, Disney’s Frozen and Riverdance‘s 25th Anniversary Show, could not be rescheduled. The schedule will run as follows: Hamilton Sept. […]
Lot of Movie Choices, Good and Bad

Loads of options this week, most of them unusual, some of them awful, a couple pretty great and one Golden Globe nomination. Here’s the skinny. Two of Us (Deux) On VOD by George Wolf The plan was to sell each of their neighboring French flats and move to Rome. After decades of living in secret, […]