Film, Movies, Entertainment
Kate Zucco
Space Invasion
A piece of everyone’s favorite galaxy defenders (and villains) will be landing in Medina at Castle Noel’s new Sci-Fi Movie Museum. Read more
photo by Tylar Sutton
Joanna Wilson
Author and Christmas authority shares her pop culture insght. Read more
illustration by Brent Flores
Best Nostalgic Night Out
Heading to a drive-in theater can take you back to the glory days of watching a movie under the summer stars ... Read more
One For The Books: 35th Cleveland Film Fest Roundup
The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival has come to close. It was a year marked by record attendance and a host of fantabulously crafted cinema, including the akronlife sponsored "If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle," which won in its category! Read more
Apr 8, 2011 4:53 PM (330) Area Blog
3 Shotgun Reviews from the Cleveland Film Festival
The CIFF is a booming success with a great film selection, record attendance and a handful of awesome. Here's a quick look at three films that have made the cut! Read more
Mar 28, 2011 12:30 AM (330) Area Blog
CIFF: Van Diemen's Land - a moment of silence please.
I can't believe that just happened...at least that's what I said at the end of this utterly engrossing film. Read more
Mar 31, 2010 5:26 PM (330) Area Blog
CIFF: The Best of Times
This simple, humorous and heartwarming film will be one of the unsung heroes of the film festival. Read more
Mar 31, 2010 5:20 PM (330) Area Blog
CIFF: Small Crime - a viewing pleasure
This late addition to the list of films I intended to watch was stuffed with fun-nosity. A pleasure to watch. Read more
Mar 30, 2010 4:39 PM (330) Area Blog
CIFF: The Good Heart - A palpitation.
Don't know if I just expected a lot more from this film than I was given, but I was dissatisfied at best. Cynicism comes naturally to some of us. Read more
Mar 30, 2010 3:24 PM (330) Area Blog
CIFF: The Girl - subtle and simple
Picture "Home Alone" meets "My Girl" ... in a dark alley and subsequently beats the daylights out of it, nurses it back to health and sends it on a trip to Sweden. Read more
Mar 25, 2010 4:43 PM (330) Area Blog
CIFF - Black Box. Don't go looking for it.
If the Cleveland International Film Festival crashed into Lake Erie tonight, this is not the black box you should go looking for. Leave it buried. Read more
Mar 23, 2010 4:53 PM (330) Area Blog
CIFF Smorgasbord
The Shorts Programs are living up to expectation and even exceeding it. Both animated and live action shorts have been solid. Read more
Mar 23, 2010 2:37 PM (330) Area Blog
CIFF - Lourdes
Don't consider the differences in Asian cinema and Austro-Franco-Germanic cinema. Read more
Mar 23, 2010 12:44 PM (330) Area Blog
CIFF: Trailerpark & Independent Shorts program 3
A sizable day if you count each of the shorts as a separate film; but a good set of films it was! Read more
Mar 22, 2010 1:00 AM (330) Area Blog
Cleveland International Film Festival Night Two
"Accident." Enough said. Read more
Mar 20, 2010 2:26 AM (330) Area Blog
Excitement for the Cleveland International Film Festival has numbed my toes
Ten days of film festival bliss begins this evening with "TiMER" Read more
Mar 18, 2010 11:31 AM (330) Area Blog
Cleveland International Film Festival - You Must Do This!
The 34th annual Cleveland Film Festival is returning to Cleveland this week. Hundreds of films just begging to be seen...by you. If you're not going, I have nothing to say to you. Get your pen and pad of paper ready...Let's Go! Read more
Mar 15, 2010 5:35 PM (330) Area Blog
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