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Melissa Starker

Melissa Starker is a freelance writer and film programmer, and editor of the weekly Screen Addiction newsletter of Columbus film listings.

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Melissa Starker's Latest Articles

Gail Freedman exposes the lie in ‘No One Cares About Crazy People’

The filmmaker brings her documentary about families impacted by severe mental illness to the Wexner Center for the Arts on Wednesday, March 4

Nina West battles a zombie apocalypse in ‘Queens of the Dead’

The Columbus drag icon brings her new movie to Nightmares Film Festival on Sunday, Oct. 19

Opinion essay: mRNA vaccines are an essential technology

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced in early August that it would terminate about $500 million in research on more than 20 mRNA vaccines and would not initiate any new mRNA-based projects. It’s a decision the country will come to regret.