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Dec 6, 2024 | 
columbusunderground.com | George Wolf |Hope Madden |Rachel Willis
It’s that riotous time of year when Hollywood pushes out Christmas movies and blockbusters and Oscar contenders, meanwhile all the indies hoping to get a little awards season buzz also squeeze through the cracks. The result is a weekend bursting with solid movie options—plus Grillo and werewolves! Because that’s a joy in any season. Here’s what’s worth your time.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
columbusunderground.com | George Wolf |Hope Madden |Matt Weiner |Rachel Willis
No matter how blue or angry you may be, one small consolation is that it’s finally Oscar season. Those films studios believe likeliest to be remembered come awards season will begin their trek to screens. This week we have a couple of solid possibilities, as well as the first Christmas films of the season. In case you need a distraction. In theatersby George WolfYou can often find ghosts lurking in the plays of August Wilson.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
columbusunderground.com | Hope Madden |Daniel Baldwin |Adam W. Barney |Rachel Willis
The 2024 Nightmares Film Festival program unspools Thursday, October 17. The lineup includes new works from genre favorites, features and shorts from Ohio filmmakers, indie genre films from all over the world made by newcomers and veterans. We’ll walk you through a handful of the features screening this weekend. Playing Thursday at 6 pmby Hope MaddenThere’s a handful of filmmakers who raise anticipation with each new film.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
southwalton.lifemediagrp.com | Rachel Willis
By Rachel C. WillisIt’s pumpkin season! There’s no better place to pick out the perfect orange gourd this fall than Camp Helen State Park, home of Lake Powell, the largest coastal dune lake in the northern hemisphere. Each fall, they host the largest pumpkin patch on the Emerald Coast, along with Americana Concerts in the winter, movie nights, an egg hunt in the spring and other fundraisers and events throughout the year.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
columbusunderground.com | Hope Madden |George Wolf |Christie Robb |Rachel Willis
Todd Philips takes a big swing, but if a musical Joker film isn’t your bag, may we interest you in time traveling siblings? Partying puppets? Questionable parenting? All manner of aliens? Let’s have a look at all the options on big screens and small. In theatersby Hope Madden and George WolfFive years ago, Todd Philips made a dangerous film, a comic book movie through a fractured Scorsese viewfinder that cried with the clown the world said was not funny.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
columbusunderground.com | Hope Madden |Brandon Thomas |Matt Weiner |Rachel Willis
Tim Burton ends his reign of disappointment with a seriously fun romp, but Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is not the only big recommendation this week. Some of the best thrillers of the year hit big screens and small, plus there’s a charming romance, and some indie horror to kick of spooky season. Yes, we’ve moved the start date up to September. Just let us be happy!In theatersby Hope MaddenNo one has ever mastered gruesome charm, macabre whimsy, as fully as Tim Burton.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
columbusunderground.com | Hope Madden |George Wolf |Rachel Willis |Daniel Baldwin
It’s late August. Not quite Spooky Season, just past Blockbuster Season, months away from the Holiday Season. It can take a little effort to find cinematic gems during this gap season, but that’s what we’re here to help you do. In theatersby Hope MaddenArtificial intelligence is scary. Mary Shelley knew it. When you create something smarter than you are, with an endless ability to learn, you don’t just become obsolete. You risk becoming a slave.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
columbusunderground.com | George Wolf |Hope Madden |Adam W. Barney |Rachel Willis
Not everything this week is a remake. Yes, there is one big one and it’s probably better than you expect it to be, although if you’re like the entire internet, you expect The Crow to be the worst film of 2024. But there are a lot of exceptional, unusual films out this week so if you want to find something different, this is the weekend to do it.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
columbusunderground.com | George Wolf |Hope Madden |Matt Weiner |Rachel Willis
The power of song, that’s the wildly unexpected theme of the week. Two truly wonderful indies hit screens this weekend, along with a middling thriller. Plus crayons, naughty stepmoms and a series of streaming disappointments. Here’s what’s up. At Gateway Film Centerby George WolfLearn a bit about the genesis of A24’s Sing Sing, and you’d be tempted to view it as some sort of social experiment, a project where success is defined just by completing the assignment.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
columbusunderground.com | Hope Madden |George Wolf |Eva Fraser |Rachel Willis
From big, windy blockbusters to family friendly streamers to hair raising indies, there’s more going on in movies this weekend than you may realize. That’s why we’re here!In theatersby Hope MaddenIs Twisters 100% scientifically realistic? Well, taming tornadoes from inside souped up pickups seems likelier than following up the beautiful, Oscar nominated drama Minari with this movie. But if director Lee Isaac Chung can do that, anything is possible. Chung’s film, written by Mark L.
