Creating a sequel that avoids disappointing fans of a cult classic like Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” while also developing a film that will appeal to all audiences — including those who have not seen the original — is a tall task for any director. But ...

Nearly 12 years ago, Eric Obenauf and Eliza Wood-Obenauf, a married team with a shared love of music, film and books, started their own independent publishing company, Two Dollar Radio. After traveling between New York and San Diego for two years, Obenauf and Wood-Obenauf finally ...

Thursday, Sept. 28 21 Savage, 6 p.m. at Express Live, 405 Neil Ave. The Atlanta rapper headlines the 107.5 “Powerfest” with openers Jacquees and Doobie. Tickets are $47.50 plus fees via Ticketmaster. Tyler Childers, 8 p.m. at Newport Music Hall, 1522 N. High St. The ...

Award-winning African filmmaker Dani Kouyate will screen his Swedish film, “While We Live,” at the Wexner Center for the Arts Tuesday. Since releasing his film in October of last year, Kouyate has been shopping “While We Live,” whose Swedish title and translation is “Medan vi ...

Two years ago, director Matthew Vaughn introduced us to “Kingsman: The Secret Service” — a refreshing departure from more serious films in the espionage genre. However, its sequel follows the original’s formula too closely for it to shine on its own. While it doesn’t live ...

Gateway Film Center on Sunday will celebrate Art House Theatre Day with a showing of a 4K restoration of documentary drama “Titicut Follies.” Directed by Frederick Wiseman, the long-banned documentary investigates the Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Massachusetts. The 4K restoration brings ...

Acclaimed cartoonist and Ohio State alumnus John Backderf will join the crowd at the advanced screening of a film based on his best-selling graphic novel “My Friend Dahmer” at the Wexner Center for the Arts on Sept. 29. The graphic-novel-turned-film is an account of Backderf’s ...

Thursday, Sept. 21 Nightlight 614, 7:30 p.m. at Genoa Park, 303 W. Broad St. The outdoor film series will feature “This Town” and brings a collection of food trucks, beer and wine to the Scioto Mile. Admission is free and 21 and over. Com Truise, ...

Two local professors are bringing their nationally surveyed short film, “Strangely Ordinary This Devotion,” to the Wexner Center for the Arts Tuesday. Dani Leventhal, an assistant professor of drawing, and Sheilah Wilson, an assistant professor of studio art and queer studies at Denison University, will ...

A new documentary will bring the music of the Avett Brothers to a new medium in a special film screening at the Gateway Film Center on Tuesday. Directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio, “May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers,” intimately documents ...