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National Evening of Science on Screen®

The Athena has been programming Science on Screen®  events since 2012. Whether classic or quirky, these science/movie mash-ups are highly entertaining events and a wonderful way to integrate film and science in a way that appeals to students, faculty and community members with a wide array of interests. On March 27th, theaters around the nation […]

ISU & The LGBT Center Present A FANTASTIC WOMAN *FREE*

Join us Tuesday, April 3rd at 7:00PM for a FREE screening of the Best Foreign Language Film winner at this year’s Academy Awards, A Fantastic Woman, followed by a panel discussion with members from Ohio University’s LGBT Center and International Student Union. Marina and Orlando are in love and planning for the future. Marina is […]

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Sustainability Series: AWAKE, A DREAM FROM STANDING ROCK

Follows the dramatic rise of the historic #NODAPL native-led peaceful resistance at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, North Dakota, which captured the world’s attention. Thousands of activists converged from around the country to stand in solidarity with the Water Protectors (activists) protesting the construction of the $3.7 billion Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The Water Protectors […]

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Sustainability Series: DEATH BY DESIGN

The cell and smartphone industries have saturated the market; in 2015, it was estimated that 98 percent of all US citizens aged between 18 – 29 years owned a mobile phone. A staggering 86 percent owned smartphones. By 2020, four billion people will have a personal computer. Five billion will own a mobile phone. In […]

THE FLORIDA PROJECT: Last Day Tuesday, December 19th

Warm, winning, and gloriously alive, Sean Baker’s The Florida Project is a deeply moving and unforgettably poignant look at childhood. Set on a stretch of highway just outside the imagined utopia of Disney World, The Florida Project follows six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince in a stunning breakout turn) and her rebellious mother Halley (Bria Vinaite, another major discovery) […]

MY FRIEND DAHMER

Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys in the Midwest United States between 1978 and 1991 before being captured and incarcerated. He would become one of America’s most infamous serial killers. This is the story before that story. Jeff Dahmer (Disney Channel’s Ross Lynch) is an awkward teenager struggling to make it through high school […]

LOVING VINCENT: Last Day Thursday, November 30th

This feature-length painted animation — the first film of its kind — explores the life and unusual death of Vincent Van Gogh via depictions of his artworks. Directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman.

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS: Last Day Thursday, November 30th

What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, “Murder on the Orient Express” tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone’s a suspect. One man must race […]

THE LEISURE SEEKER

Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren and two-time Golden Globe-winner Donald Sutherland star as a runaway couple going on an unforgettable cross-country journey in their vintage camper. Ella and John are fleeing the suffocating care of their doctors and grown children. He is distracted but strong; she is frail but sharp. Their journey aboard the faithful old […]

MARSHALL: Leaving Thursday, November 9th

Starring Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Dan Stevens, Sterling K. Brown, and James Cromwell. Director Reginald Hudlin’s Marshall, is based on an early trial in the career of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. It follows the young lawyer (Chadwick Boseman) to conservative Connecticut to defend a black chauffeur (Sterling K. Brown) charged with sexual […]