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There’s a new documentary film about a popular singer who was born and raised in my current home town of Tucson, Arizona: Linda Ronstadt. The movie...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 04:42
Ari Aster’s latest horror film depicts a group of young Americans encountering a strange pagan community in Sweden.
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 04:26
English director Joanna Hogg presents the pain of a young woman filmmaker’s destructive relationship with an addict in The Souvenir, while Pamela B...
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 09:07
Oh my goodness, there are beetles, bees and moths that visit the open flowers of Calylophus harwegii from late afternoon and through the night. Som...
- Added: May 23, 2019
- Length: 05:45
I guess I don’t have a whole lot more to add about this show. Well, I have been known to sing a little better than this.
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:37
George Segal plays an American corporal whose wheeling and dealing makes him a kind of king within the narrow world of a Japanese prisoner of war c...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:24
I sure talk about a lot different flora and fauna. From three species of quail, to canyon wrens, to Yarrows spiny lizards, to bristlehead (Carphoch...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 05:30
Did the founder of Earth Day really murder his girlfriend and let her body rot in his apartment closet?
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- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Jia Zhanke is a Chinese writer and director whose films have garnered steady critical acclaim since the 90s. Years ago I reviewed his 2000 film Pla...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 04:24
In 1917, a tragic and criminal episode in American history occurred in the copper mining town of Bisbee, Arizona. Local miners had recently been or...
- Added: Jan 31, 2019
- Length: 04:34
What happens when a civilization collapses? You can't go camping in Joshua Tree, that's what.
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- Added: Jan 14, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Welcome to the Shutdown. Chaos in the national parks. No toilets in Joshua Tree. Trouble abounds. Guest: Food writer/editor Katherine Spiers of Sma...
- Added: Jan 02, 2019
- Length: 28:00
For someone who writes about films as I do, there are always cases of movies that fly under the radar, escaping my notice, maybe not even playing l...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:35
Anisacanthus thurberi or desert honeysuckle is in the Acanthus family, Acanthaceae. I do like the common name cola de gallo, because it captures th...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:27
Berberis fremontii is in the Barberry family or Berberidaceae…that’s fun to pronounce. Fremont barberry has quite a range north of the Salt River i...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:16
Well, I’m not sure I can add a whole lot more to this true story, but here are a few ringtail facts that are fun. Okay, fun for nature geeks like y...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:10
I suppose the thinking is that any wildflowers blooming along the side of the road will beautify that road and who cares what’s in the hydro-seed m...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:09
Whip-smart and scary, yet seemingly off-the-cuff, Unsane is Steven Soderbergh’s latest contribution to genre film, in this case the suspense thrill...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 03:58
I often hear people make the mistake of assuming that the main character of a movie should be likeable or sympathetic. This idea is a hold-over fro...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 04:11
Mudbound tells the stories of people who don’t often get their stories told: poor white farmers and black sharecroppers in the South during the 194...
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 04:02
There have been three films this year featuring the rescue of British troops from Dunkirk, and two about Winston Churchill. I’m not sure why this w...
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 04:32
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. I have to admit I kind of admire the courage it took for a producer to approve such an awkward title for...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 03:34
Regular listeners to this show may be aware that I’m not a fan of most Christmas movies. Occasionally, though, I offer suggestions during the holid...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 04:19
It’s true that life in southeastern Arizona is full of “behold!” moments. It is so exciting to live in such a diverse land, both in plants and anim...
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- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 1
There have been quite a few dramatic films on the theme of the death penalty, most of them making an eloquent case against it, and some of them rea...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 03:26