Film

The Walbridge Branch Library screens Unbroken film

Jeff Klima

If you need to be reminded of what courage looks like, join the Walbridge Branch Library for their showing of Unbroken. The true story...

After The Shift: Miners Adapt To An Industry’s Decline In Documentary, ‘After Coal’

Sean Nestor

Coal has always been political. A century ago, miners were at the forefront of battles between workers and bosses in the burgeoning industrial union...

RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bianca Del Rio tells a powerful story

Athena Cocoves

Years before RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bianca Del Rio schooled the competition, they schooled audiences about state laws in the independent film Hurricane Bianca....

Big Apple makeovers!

Jeff Klima

Do you need a reminder to appreciate every little thing you have? Check out the fascinating documentary Refugee Kids, about the students of the...

What You Need Know About the Sundance Kid Drive-In

Jeff Klima

Drive-ins, like carhops at diners, disappointing evenings at “Makeout Point” and Cruise Ins are the last vestiges of a car-centric culture that sprung up...

Called to Walls

Jeff Klima

No longer the flyover states, Middle America is home to a fascinating cultural shift that includes art, music, food and unique characters. In Called...

Fleetwood’s Movie Nights starts with Back to the Future

Jeff Klima

Watch Back to the Future the way it was meant to be seen: from the comfort of a lawn chair in a public park!...

Fathom Events’ shows The Godfather

Toledo City Podcast

Cue the emotional violin music for Francis Ford Coppola’s powerful film adaptation of Mario Puzo’s classic novel, The Godfather. Part of Fathom Events’ presentation...

Toledo Museum of Art features Metropolis for their Sound of Silents program

Jeff Klima

Few silent films speak as loudly as Fritz Lang’s near-opus Metropolis (M is his best film). A split dystopian/utopian society is at the heart...

The Toledo Jewish Film Festival kicks off this month

Jeff Klima

The Toledo Jewish Film Festival, a five-week event showcasing one significantly Jewish film per week, kicks off on Monday, May 22 with Remember. Starring...

5 Must See Films At The Glass City Film Festival

Jeff Klima

The one thing you absolutely need to accept about any film festival is that you won’t make it to every showing. Even when the...

Toledo celebrities who aren’t Jamie Farr

Jeff Klima

If you reference celebrities with ties to Toledo, everyone knows Jamie Farr, the star of TV series MASH. Dig a little deeper and people...

Michigan Theatre to screen The Brother from Another Planet film

Athena Cocoves

Assimilation is hard, especially when you’re from another planet. Meditate on the meaning of adjustment with the Michigan Theater’s upcoming screening of the 1984...

The Maumee Film Fest seeks submissions

Jeff Klima

The Maumee Uptown Business Association wants your short films. Hosting the Maumee Film Fest in September, the MUBA is seeking submissions from filmmakers high...

There’s No Place Like Home: Toledo Leads Community Awareness through Film

Nicole Green

The sign says “For rent.” But if you know the drill, you know they won’t rent to you. And then you’re humiliated again— another...

Documentary Hometown Habitat: Stories of Bringing Nature Home Premiere

Jeff Klima

Conservation landscaping— the idea that you don’t need to destroy the natural order of things to make use of the land— is a growing...

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