Interstellar Opens Thursday, January 15 at the Great Lakes Science Center in OMNIMAX for limited engagement

[Press release from the Great Lakes Science Center.]

The crtically acclaimed feature-length film, Interstellar, is coming to our OMNIMAX Theater. Don't miss your chance to see this space adventure on our giant screen!

With our time on earth coming to an end, a team of explorers makes use of a newly discovered wormhole and undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow and Michael Caine. Rated PG-13. Watch the trailer.

Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (opens April 4th exclusively at the Great Lakes Science Center)

[ISLAND OF LEMURS: MADAGASCAR opens in Cleveland on Friday April 4th exclusively at the Great Lakes Science Center Omnimax.]

Review by Ben Lybarger

When most people get up for work tomorrow morning, very few of them will have as daunting and laudable a task as Dr. Patricia Wright, who has taken on the goal of saving an almost hopelessly endangered species from extinction. Fortunately for the tenor of this film inspired by her work, the former social worker turned primatologist understands very well the complicated dynamics involved when the island's limited resources are split between its human and non-human families. With sympathies carefully aimed in both directions, the tone of this info-taining cavalcade of cuteness never culminates in occidental finger-wagging despite the dangers facing the Greater Bamboo lemur - object of this New York ex-pat's lifelong fascination - as well as all the other lemurs found on this island and nowhere else in the world. These matriarchal mammals suffer severe habitat loss from slash-and-burn agriculture, in addition to numerous other hazards from the local people as they themselves struggle to make ends meet. While the lemurs retain the spotlight throughout the film, director David Douglas deftly avoids the temptation to cast a heavy eye across the globe while simultaneously also managing to wring a drop of hope from the dire situation. 

Ultimate Wave Tahiti (now playing at the Great Lakes Science Center OMNIMAX Theater)

[ULTIMATE WAVE TAHITI is now playing at the Great Lakes Science Center OMNIMAX Theater.]

Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.

I wasn't high on the local-media roster, but I was deemed worthy enough as a freelancer by one newspaper to be dispatched to the scene as a reporter when the Great Lakes Science Center's OMNIMAX theater opened its doors, oh, about 16 or 17 years ago. There must have been free food.

(In order for journalistic correctness, I must note that I think the proper name of the facility, depending on the sponsor, is the Great Lakes Science Center Cleveland Clinic OMNIMAX Theater. Or maybe by now the Great Lakes Science Center Progressive Insurance OMNIMAX Theater. Or, for a year or two, the Great Lakes Science Center LeBron James OMNIMAX Theater, then followed for a few months by The Great Lakes Science Center LeBron James OMNIMAX Theater, with the words "LeBron James" x'ed out in angry blood-dripping red paint. In a few weeks it will be the Great Lakes Science Center See THE AVENGERS, Starring Iron Man! Thor! Hulk! Black Widow! Captain America! Actually Filmed In Cleveland! OMNIMAX Theater. When it becomes the Great Lakes Science Center Cleveland Movie Blog OMNIMAX Theater, maybe at least the gift shop will carry more of my books...)