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Juneteenth Science On Screen: CODED BIAS with Dr. Uzoma Miller

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Join us Friday, June 19th at 8:00 p.m. as we celebrate Juneteenth with a talk by Dr. Uzoma Miller and a special screening of a timely documentary that examines the socio-cultural biases and inequities inherent in the emerging world of artificial intelligence!

Admission is FREE – Tickets are required

Dr. Miller’s talk is titled

“Racial Justice in Tech: A Juneteenth Reflection on Coded Bias”

Light appetizers from local restaurants will be provided

Join us for a community screening and vital conversation centered on the acclaimed documentary Coded Bias. As we celebrate freedom and reflect on the ongoing fight for racial justice, this event will explore how modern technology and artificial intelligence can quietly reinforce racial bias and inequity. Together, we will look behind the screen to discuss how these digital systems impact our everyday lives, from automated decision-making to facial recognition. Whether you are a tech enthusiast, a racial justice advocate, or simply a curious community member, we welcome your participation and engagement!

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When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, she embarks on a journey to push for the first-ever U.S. legislation against bias in algorithms that impact us all.

About the speaker

Uzoma Miller is a music educator, who focuses on the interconnectedness of diasporic African musical forms and the cultural dynamics intricately embedded therein. In addition to studying place-based HBCU public history through an asset-based lens, he teaches such courses as Blacks in Contemporary American Cinema and Introduction to Africana Media Studies. His scholarly and creative out put includes co-editing A Call to Reason: Building Inclusive Pedagogy & Wellness Rhetoric into Classrooms (Cognella, 2027), authoring a book review for Terence Bailey’s Do You Remember? Celebrating 50 Years of Earth, Wind, and Fire (Journal of Black Studies, 2025), and curating an annual student-led and music-focused Africana Arts & Artists Symposium (2022-2025) at OHIO.
Miller secured his PhD in Transformative Studies from The California Institute of Intergral Studies, a Master’s in Political Science from Jackson State University, and his Bachelor’s in History from Morehouse College. At OHIO, he currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Instruction, and the Undergraduate Advising Coordinator, Department of African American Studies; Affiliate Faculty, School of International Studies & Languages; and Affiliate Faculty, Department of History. Dr. Miller is the Co-Director of the Faculty Mentoring Program and is the 2025-2026 Institutional Winner of the Mis-American Conference (MAC) Award for Student Success.

Science on Screen is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

 

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OUTlaws Pride Series: PINK FLAMINGOS

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Join us Thursday, June 25th as we wrap up our Pride Series with the ultimate “midnight movie”!

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** Warning: This film contains scenes that may not be appropriate for young viewers **

About the film

Infamous drag queen Divine stars in this quintessential 1972 classic from writer-director John Waters that tells the story of Babs Johnson, an illustrious criminal known as “the filthiest person alive!” When two lesser hoodlums take it upon themselves to try and outdo Babs, the grotesquerie, bizarre-ness, crudity, and sadistic sensationalism rise to levels that only Waters could have the guts to put on film!

This self-proclaimed “exercise in poor taste” may not be for the squeamish, but this film put John Waters on the map in terms of a filmmaker willing to push the boundaries of the artform, and it became a cornerstone of the “abject art” movement. If you’re brave enough to make it to the end, you’ll definitely leave with the knowledge that you just witnessed something unique in all of cinematic history!

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BABES: Last Day Thursday, June 13th

Watch Trailer Director: Pamela Adlon
Cast: Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau

Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau) have been BFF’s since childhood; however, they have very different approaches to Life — Dawn is a responsible, married mother of two; Eden, on the other hand, lives life on more carefree terms. After a one-night stand, Eden finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and, deciding to follow through with having the baby, turns to Dawn for help and advice. As the two friends wrestle with the complexities of motherhood, their friendship gets put to the test (along with lots of laugh-inducing fun from two top-notch comedians!) and each comes away a little wiser in the end.

Rounding out the cast of this latest Glazer project is Oliver Platt, Hasan Minhaj, and Sandra Bernhard. Directed by Pamela Adlon (the voice actress for “Bobby” from the TV show King of the HillI), Babes debuted at the SXSW in March 2024 and is sure to be another feather in the cap for the zany star and co-creator of  Broad City.

 

 

 

 

 

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TUESDAY: Last Day Thursday, June 20th

Watch Trailer Director: Daina O. Pusić
Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lola Petticrew, Leah Harvey, Arinzé Kene

From A24 Studios comes a powerful story about life, death, and love.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld, Veep) takes a step outside of her usual brilliantly funny persona to star as Zora, a single mother who lives with her terminally ill daughter “Tuesday”, played by the award-winning Irish actor Lola Petticrew. Things take a fantastical turn when, one day, a strange bird – a talking, size-changing parrot – arrives, setting mother and daughter on an emotional rollercoaster ride as they confront the meaning of existence and learn that the true essence of Love is knowing when and how to let go.

Tuesday is the directorial debut of filmmaker Daina O. Pusić and features mesmerizing cinematography by Alexis Zabé (The Florida Project). Dreyfus’s profoundly moving performance has been hailed by critics for its honesty, depth, and poignancy. Pusić’s affecting screenplay builds a bridge between fantasy and something very real at the heart of us all.

 

 

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It’s clear that both Pusić and the actors...care about the characters. And because they do, the story resonates even more strongly...

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Sustainability Series: GHOST ELEPHANTS

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Join us Wednesday, November 4th at 7:00 p.m. for a haunting nature documentary from clebrated filmmaker Werner Herzog!

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For more than 10 years, conservation biologist and National Geographic Explorer Dr. Steve Boyes, has searched the highland plateau and deep forests of Angola for an elusive herd of “Ghost Elephants” — an undiscovered species of African elephant that is said to travel silently through its high-altitude domain, gaining an almost-mythological status among the indigenous peoples of the region.

Written, directed, and narrated by acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man), this haunting and contemplative film  joins Boyes on his epic quest, along with some of the world’s best master trackers, in order to prove the existence of an animal long believed to be only a myth.

 

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OHIO Dad’s Weekend ’26: MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL

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Bring your dad. Bring your best British accent. Leave your sense of dignity at the door…

Join us Friday, November 6th and Saturday, November 7th at 7:00 p.m. for a classic British comedy that is sure to get medieval on you and make your “knights” in Athens unforgettable…It’s Monty Python and The Holy Grail!

Two weekend showtimes:

Friday 11/6 at 7:00 p.m.

Saturday 11/7 at 7:00 p.m.

Admission $8

We’ll have special themed cocktails and (maybe) a fire-tossing wizard named Tim.

We encourage you to dress up in a period-correct costume – a gallant knight, a repressed peasant covered in mud, a coconut-clopping squire…even an African swallow. If you’re into that.

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Poking fun at the revered legend of King Arthur and his Knights of The Round Table, the troupe of Pythons pull out all the comedic stops for a wild (and irreverent) ride through the misty Dark Ages! Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Terry Gilliam are in top form as various characters in some of the most side-splitting material ever put on screen. Bits like “The Knights Who Say Ni!”, “The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch”, “The Trojan Rabbit”, and “The Black Knight” have etched themselves permanently on the landscape of comedy like the ornate letters in an old biblical manuscript!

Maybe your mother isn’t a hamster, and perhaps your father doesn’t smell like elderberries, but one thing’s for sure — watching this film together will give you and your family a (Came)lot of good times to share!

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I SAW THE TV GLOW: Last Day Thursday, June 13th

Watch Trailer Director: Jane Schoenbrun
Cast: Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Fred Durst

Back For One Week Only!

From A24 Studios comes a new psychological thriller from filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun. After striking up a friendship, two teen outcasts — Owen (Justice Smith) and Maddy (Bridgette Lundy-Paine) — fake a slumber party at a schoolmate’s house in order to secretly watch an episode of The Pink Opaque, a show for young adults featuring strong mythological and supernatural themes. The two fall in love with the show (and maybe a little with each other). Maddy’s troubled life compels her to run away from home. Owen considers joining her, but he’s forced to remain and take care of his dying mother. Fast-forward 10 years, Maddy mysteriously returns to tell Owen that the substance of The Pink Opaque is, in fact real, and that the two can live there in happiness…if only he can see fit to believe.

With its striking visuals and excellent music soundtrack — in fact, musicians including Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit, Phoebe Bridgers, Haley Dahl of Sloppy Jane, and Kristina Esfandiari of Miserable all appear in the film — I Saw the TV Glow is sure to be a hit with fans of Stranger Things and the rest of the A24 catalogue of films.

 

 

 

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It reaches inside your imagination and stirs it around, making new connections between familiar concepts. It’s not just great, it’s fascinating and revelatory.

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Beat the Heat: WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT

Watch Trailer Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner, Mel Blanc
Awards: Oscar - Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Special Achievement Award

Eddie Valiant is a down-and-out gumshoe in late-1940’s Hollywood who gets entwined in a case that is sure to test what he’s made of. When a big-shot cartoon producer hires Valiant to dig up some dirt on Jessica, the the seemingly-unfaithful “toon” bombshell spouse of cartoon superstar Roger Rabbit, the private eye travels to “Toontown” to sniff out the goings-on of a rival studio exec (and the guy who happens to run Toontown itself). Valiant goes to see Jessica perform her famously sultry crooning act and seems to catch her in the act of seducing the rival exec; however, the man is murdered the following day and Roger Rabbit becomes Suspect No. 1. Valiant has his doubts about Rabbit’s guilt and ends up helping him get to the bottom of this strange set of circumstances. This puts the two at odds with Judge Doom – the chief justice of Toontown – who might just be the lynchpin of what starts to look more and more like a frame job!

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This series is made possible thanks to support from the following sponsors: Athens County Children Services, Southeastern Ohio Treatment Foster Care Network, Ohio University Credit Union, and Athens Area Chamber of Commerce

 

 

 

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Beat the Heat: THE RUGRATS MOVIE

Watch Trailer Director: Norton Virgien, Igor Kovalyov

Little Tommy Pickles’ new baby brother gets born early…so early, in fact, that Tommy hasn’t had the chance to figure out how he’ll deal with no longer being the apple of his parents’ eyes. Making matters worse is the fact that the new tyke is kind of a pain to have at home. So, Tommy and his friends hatch a plan to take the baby back to the hospital; however, the plan goes awry and the gang lose the babe in the woods. It’s now up to Tommy to find his kid brother and get him back home where he actually belongs, having hijinks and adventures along the way!

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This series is made possible thanks to support from the following sponsors: Athens County Children Services, Southeastern Ohio Treatment Foster Care Network, Ohio University Credit Union, and Athens Area Chamber of Commerce

 

 

 

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Beat the Heat: ERNEST & CELESTINE

Watch Trailer Director: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
Writer(s): Daniel Pennac
Awards: Oscar - Best Animated Feature (nom)

In the orphanage underground where she lives, Celestine, a young mouse, has been taught that bears are nasty and evil…not the kind of folks one should associate with. As she prepares to follow the typical rodent trajectory of becoming a dentist, Celestine (who’d much rather be an artist) is tasked with stealthily venturing to the outside world where she must collect the lost baby teeth of bear cubs and bring them back for study. On one such outing, she is discovered by a family of bears and chased into the outside world. She spends a tense night of fear in a trash can and meets Ernest, a unique bear who might just change her ideas about how well mice and bears can get along.

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This series is made possible thanks to support from the following sponsors: Athens County Children Services, Southeastern Ohio Treatment Foster Care Network, Ohio University Credit Union, and Athens Area Chamber of Commerce

 

 

 

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