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One of the most unusual examples of propaganda ever filmed, made in the midst of the Second World War, imagines what it would be like if Germans ca...
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 04:49
Five films from British director Steve McQueen, depicting the experiences of West Indian British families in London from the late 1960s through the...
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 05:14
In his latest and most personal film, Pedro Almodóvar contemplates aging, regret, the need to make films, and life as a gay man in Spain.
- Added: Dec 11, 2019
- Length: 04:07
Pablo Trapero is one of the four or five most highly acclaimed Argentine film directors. His first film, Crane World, released in 1999, put him on ...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 03:45
The Little Stranger is what you would call a haunted house mystery, although that description may already give an inaccurate impression of the film.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:15
13th, a 2016 documentary directed by Ava DuVernay, starts with some alarming facts. The U.S., with 5% of the world’s population, houses 25% of the ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 04:49
Boxing films have been a popular genre since the very beginning of motion pictures, and those who like them usually have a favorite. Probably the m...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 03:58
There are teen movies, and then there are movies about teens. That’s a distinction that I just made up. My idea is that teen movies are what film c...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 04:17
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
Sometimes I come across a real treasure by sheer chance. Recently, when the movie I’d gone to see was sold out, I went to another one in the same t...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:47
A man of faith is tested to the limit in Paul Schrader’s latest film, First Reformed. Ethan Hawke plays Reverend Stoller, the minister of a Dutch R...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:35
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
Many are indifferent to fashion, and I happen to be one of them. But I do recognize that for those who are interested, it can be a serious business...
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 04:32
In 1996, Nick Gold, a British music producer, asked the American guitarist Ry Cooder to come to Havana and help him record a few sessions with some...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 04:43
Chris reviews Pablo Larraín's Neruda.
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 03:58
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about the British army in Africa.
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 03:35
Here's Gerald's audio book review of A Delicate Truth by John Le Carré.
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 03:08
Many would agree that 2016 was a terrible year in general, and I don’t need to explain why. It is strange to have to admit, then, that it was a gre...
- Added: Feb 26, 2017
- Length: 04:48
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Long Lavender Look by John D. MacDonald.
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 03:16
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Adultery by Paulo Coelho.
- Added: Jan 15, 2017
- Length: 02:54
Chris Cornell gets personal with Kyle Meredith about his new album Higher Truth, the influence his kids have had on him, and whether or not we'll s...
Bought by WLPR , KUCB, and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 3
The millennial generation is subject to a lot of stereotypes and surprisingly the generation accepts those stereotypes.
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 05:06
The spectacle of the America's Cup concluded in September in San Francisco Bay, bringing to a close the high stakes game of capital enterprise and ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2013
- Length: 04:55
Winter is here! The sights, sounds and smells of winter, with Mark Rothko on the stage.
- Added: Mar 03, 2013
- Length: 30:00
Pianist Ludovico Einaudi is a different kind of classical composer. He's a student of the avant-garde and the rich classical tradition of his nati...
- Added: Feb 25, 2010
- Length: 03:30
