The Confluence Cast: Cartoonist Jeff Smith
September 9, 2020 12:29 pm
Tim Fulton
The work of an artist isn’t much different from other pursuits. You have to plan, react to change, and it doesn’t hurt if you’re in the right place at the right time. This week, we talk with cartoonist and one of the organizers of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, Jeff Smith, to discuss the origins of his character […]
Capone, Drive-In SciFi and More Movie Options
May 15, 2020 10:19 am
Hope Madden
Welcome to a fascinating week in movies! Is the Tom Hardy Capone film bad? It is not. It’s just incredibly weird and possibly not the way you’d hoped to see Hardy play Capone. But if that’s not your bag, the South Drive In opens with one new, excellent SciFi flick and the Wex continues to […]
Art Review: Stanya Kahn – No Go Backs
April 30, 2020 9:45 am
Jeff Regensburger
Editor’s Note: Wexner Center for the Arts and Vielmetter Los Angeles will co-present a limited online screening of Stanya Kahn’s No Go Backs. The film will be streaming on Vielmetter’s website May 8–15. Find more information here. Galleries and museums are closed; here in Columbus, across the country and around the world. They have become yet another entry […]
Checking In on CBUS Indie Cinemas
April 27, 2020 1:14 pm Hope Madden
What do you miss? I miss free beverage refills. Opening a new can of Diet Coke every time I finish the last instead of hitting the soda fountain at Chipotle is costing me a fortune. I also miss going to the movies. A lot of us in CBUS do, and more than that, we’re worried […]
Hot Docs and Cool Blues in Home Entertainment
April 10, 2020 11:00 am Hope Madden
There are more ways than ever for us shut ins to enjoy brand spanking new movies, and in many cases, help out the cinemas we miss so terribly. Here is this week’s crop of brand new streaming films, most of which you can view via Gateway Film Center and Wexner Center for the Arts websites, […]
Wex Partnership Benefits Moviegoers and Cinema
March 20, 2020 12:28 pm Hope Madden
Looking for something new to watch? Maybe even interested in doing something that could benefit one of our local cinemas? Indie distributor Kino Lorber and the Wexner Center for the Arts offer you the chance to satisfy both needs. For the next two weeks, the film that took top honors at the 2019 Cannes Film […]
Retrospective Celebrating Agnes Varda Hits the Wex
March 5, 2020 1:29 pm Hope Madden
One year after the death of the extraordinary nonagenarian filmmaker Agnes Varda, the Wexner Center for the Arts has pulled together a small but lovely set of films to celebrate her work and her impact on filmmaking, Retrospective: Agnes Varda. You can catch these extraordinary films beginning this weekend. They run from March 6 – […]
