Friday May 3rd from 6p - 8p, bring a donation or non-perishable food item to donate to the Mid-Ohio Food Bank and shake hands with Iron Man as he joins us in the Arena Grand lobby to collect donations and interact with our guests.
Yet another great reason to choose the Arena Grand for Iron Man 3 next week! See a great movie, support a great cause, and hang out with Iron Man. It doesn't get much better than that.
April 12th- CAMP will be showing on the big screen and we want YOU to be a part of the excitement. CAMP is a film based on true stories from Royal Family KIDS Camp, a national network of camps for children in foster care. Royal Family KIDS of Franklin County is part of this network and operates a camp, club and mentorship program for foster children in Franklin County, OH.
This upcoming Red Carpet Premiere raises funds and raises awareness about the needs of local foster children. Royal Family KIDS is a 25-year-old national network of 180 local branches serving five percent of US foster kids, ages 6-12. Royal Family KIDS of Franklin County offers a summer camp, monthly club and year-round mentor program for Franklin County foster kids. Join us on April 12th at 6pm for the Red Carpet Party and a 7pm showing of film, followed by a Q&A with actors and experts.
CAMP actors Asante Jones (Parenthood, Malcolm in the Middle, etc.) and Matthew Jacob Wayne (New Girl, The New Normal, iCarly, etc.), will be at the premiere to help shine a spotlight on ways to create positive memories and hopeful futures for foster kids.
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For trailer, synopsis, and cast information, visit the Arena Grand website.
Join us Thursday night, March 7, 2013 for the highly anticipated release of "Oz: The Great and Powerful 3D" with our first showing at 9 PM. Come early at 8 PM in your Oz inspired garb and flair for your chance to play trivia and win great prizes. We have amazing Limited Edition 3D glasses and more great prizes including a night out in the Arena District with a pair of tickets to see the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday March 19, 2013 and a $25 Arena District Gift card to visit a participating restaurant before or after the game.
Can't make it Thursday night? Visit us the weekend of March 8 - March 10, 2013 and enter a drawing to win a Blue Jackets Game package and other great prizes from the Arena Grand Movie Theatre (No purchase necessary).
Tickets, showtimes, trailer, and more information on Oz: The Great and Powerful 3D.
Review submitted by Arena Grand fan: Simone C.
Simone's rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars!
(SPOILER ALERT!)
Family. You can't live with them and you can't live, well, some family members you just can't live with at all. Ever. Such is the case for the Ravenwood/Duchannes family. Beautiful Creatures is a modern-day, supernatural forbidden love story, the archetypal "star-crossed lovers" between a mortal and a "caster" - the updated term for witch. As is the case in many magical genres, those who practice black magic are the outcasts, hence the Dark Casters (aka black magic witches) in this interpretation are exiled by the family.
Besides Dark Casters, there seem to be a number of other classifications of casters such as Sirens, Seers, Incubi, Empaths, Palimpsests, Sybils, etc. The person's nature chooses this category; the males can accept or reject but the females must succumb to what is chosen by their nature. This event takes place on the caster's 16th birthday.
Narrated by fictitious Gatlin, South Carolina resident Ethan Wate (Alden Ehrenreich, "Twixt"), a mysterious girl keeps appearing in his dreams. Who is she? Why does he keep dreaming about her? Enter Lena, the new girl at school, his dream girl, plagued by the xenophobic "popular" girls' self-righteous gossip and whispers.
Jeremy Irons is no stranger to playing a family patriarch. Lately, he's been captivating as Roderigo Borgia on Showtime's The Borgias. In Beautiful Creatures, he plays a more magical patriarch, Macon Ravenwood, ill-fated Incubus uncle of protagonist and heroine, Lena Duchannes (New Zealand nubie Alice Englert). On Lena's 16th birthday, she is to be chosen by the dark or the light. Being female, her nature will choose for her. Her powers become exponentially stronger when she becomes emotional (and for a teenager, that's all the time). And her birthday approaches.
Of amusing note, Emmy Rossum's Siren character Ridley Duchannes is the typical gorgeous bad girl with dark powers. I still cannot believe this is the same little girl with the big voice in "Songcatcher" and "Phantom of the Opera" - whose biggest claim to fame to date is Fiona in "Shameless". Then there's Lena's mother, Seraphine, played by Emma Thompson. Seraphine seems to be a bit wacky, crazy with her dark powers, and she takes over a human body so she can move about and communicate freely. This movie is right up Thompson's alley, having appeared in the Harry Potter series and the Nanny McPhee movies.
However, Beautiful Creatures differs from the books written by authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl in that the Librarian and Seer are actually two different people. Casters are more fully explained and the story in general is richer and most readers agree that if the movie mirrored the books it would have been fab. Unfortunately, there is much amiss. I would have liked to have seen more special effects with greater intensity but much of what was attempted was a bit lackluster. However, if this movie is successful, we may see sequels to quench the Twilight audience's thirst and delve deeper into the various types of casters, character development and plot.
Director Richard LaGravenese has myriad experience with love stories (writer and director), P.S. I Love You, Water for Elephants (writer), The Bridges of Madison County (writer), etc. so it is not surprising he tried his hand at supernatural love and his focus was more on that than the magic. The story is easy to follow, though, and moves quickly, keeping you guessing.
Is the power of love stronger than magic power? Huey Lewis seems to think so. I give this flick 3½ stars. I was entertained.
Many thanks to Simone for sharing her review! Check out other reviews of this film at IMDB.
Click here to view the trailer or purchase your ticket to see Beautiful Creatures
Valentine's Day is Thursday February 14th
We prefer to take this day of romance to celebrate the love of movies and to send some great deals to our Grand Rewards members. Join us for any movie this Valentine's Day, show your Grand Rewards Card, and receive a ticket to any movie plus your choice of a delicious cookie or a small popcorn all for only $8.00 ($10.00 for reserved balcony seating package)! Grand Rewards members who mention this deal and show their cards can purchase up to 4 of these packages. Special pricing can only be offered at the Concierge Desk on Thursday February 14, 2013.
Ticket purchases are valid for same day purchases only. Special cannot be used for advanced purchases for future dates.
