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Getting old is the source of fear in a new horror movie by Natalie Erika James, about a woman on the edge of dementia whose daughter and granddaugh...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:21
A dying man experiences the tragic dualism of past and present, in Andrei Tarkovsky’s autobiographical masterpiece The Mirror.
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 03:36
A film by Channing Godfrey Peoples tells of a single mother (Nicole Beharie) in an African American neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, who wants he...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:19
In an industrial town in China, the lives of four people (three young, one old) intertwine on a day darkened by hostility, powerlessness, and reven...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:30
In his first western, Tom Hanks plays an itinerant news reader from Texas who tries to transport a young girl who was an Indian captive to her rela...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:33
Transposing Jack London’s autobiographical novel to Italy, Pietro Marcello highlights the conflict of socialist idealism with the individualistic d...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:05
How do you sleep when so much of life is unsettled?
In this episode that comes to us from the award-winning podcast Shelter in Place, we talk abo...
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 26:15
What have you lost in the pandemic? What have you found?
We asked these questions to people from New York to New Mexico. What they told us has gi...
- Added: Oct 07, 2021
- Length: 26:58
The Father is a film about an elderly man suffering from dementia. It started in 2012 as a French play by Florian Zeller, and last year Zeller dire...
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 04:51
A man’s last hours are spent being moved from hospital to hospital within the maze of the Romanian health care system, in this devastating portrait...
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 04:17
Riz Ahmed plays a rock drummer who loses his hearing and must come to terms with being a deaf person, in Darius Marder’s moving drama.
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 04:11
The film version of August Wilson’s play about a jazz recording session in 1927 features Viola Davis in the title role, and Chadwick Boseman as the...
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 04:48
Catherine Deneuve plays a famous actress in conflict with her daughter, played by Juliette Binoche, in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first film made outside ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 04:10
Minari, the latest film from writer-director Lee Isaac Chung, tells the story of an immigrant Korean family’s struggle to make a new life in the Un...
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 04:07
Alice Rohrwacher’s two-part fable portrays the fragility of goodness in a corrupted world.
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 04:39
A Danish action film starts out looking like just another revenge drama, but then pulls the rug out from under the audience in a delightful way.
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 04:25
Elena Passarello discusses her relationship to Elvis and his tribute artists during the Coronavirus pandemic.
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 17:36
Before he would ever know it, Matt Gallagher was at the forefront of new veteran voices fighting the Global War on Terror. Literally. He unknowingl...
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 52:09
In this episode of Incoming, we’re speaking with playwright Delia Knight, whose relationship with her best friend and Marine brother suffered – and...
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 52:08
Army linguist and intelligence specialist Kayla Williams has authored two books that unveil not only her own service, but offer a fearlessly unapol...
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 52:09
The Duffel Blog satire news website is known as The Onion of the armed services, fearlessly pilloring military culture, saying truths to power with...
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 52:08
This episode is split between two conversations–both about many things–but sharing the theme of protecting others and how that relates to one’s ide...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
On this episode of Incoming we talk with Doug Bradley, Army veteran and author of We Gotta Get Outta This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War....
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
On today’s show we’re talking with two enlisted veterans who rose to the top of their respective fields in civilian life: Navy veteran Chef Geoff C...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
We have two of the most entertaining, self-made, grunt-ass Marines I know on today’s show for you, and they really couldn’t be more different from ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
