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From: Michael Henrik Wynn
The emergence of the crime fiction genre is linked to the growth of the modern legal system. In Germany, there were the true crime stories of Augus...
- Added: Feb 02, 2024
- Length: 39:50
Many songs have a story to tell. Sometimes this message is clear other times it’s not. Sometimes it would be nice to know what the artist was think...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 36:08
October is the time for ghost stories, in this season of growing darkness.Tonight we are visited by a mysterious geist, in an ancient old city that...
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- Added: Oct 06, 2023
- Length: 28:00
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Tonight we escape the freezing late-winter West and enjoy some time in the piney forests on the Tennessee River, in the Alabama counties where a st...
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- Added: Mar 11, 2023
- Length: 28:00
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“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 01:58:03
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Where there are mountains, there are mysteries. Tonight we visit with some old friends who've long haunted the Indians, the Spaniards and the Ameri...
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- Added: Mar 19, 2021
- Length: 28:00
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Every weird story that you almost want to believe is required, by cosmic law, to have a Goofball Factor.
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- Added: May 10, 2019
- Length: 28:00
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Parallel dimensions and the mysterious Utah ranch bought by aerospace businessman Robert Bigelow. With guest Jeremy Corbell.
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- Added: Mar 10, 2019
- Length: 28:00
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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
English writer-director Sally Potter is a rare talent, a feminist who is also a first-rate satirist, aiming her barbs not only at male dominance in...
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 09:32
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
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
Soderbergh, one of our best and most versatile directors, announced about four years ago that he was retiring from making movies and was going to f...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:24
The surprise winner at the Cannes Film Festival this year was The Square, a provocative and disturbing satire from Swedish writer-director Ruben Ős...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:17
The Florida Project is a film of rootlessness and dysfunction, so unusual that nothing could have prepared me for its kind of honesty.
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:31
The talented writer and actress Greta Gerwig proves that she can also excel in the director’s chair, in her debut film, Lady Bird. The film begins ...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 03:35
Drawn from over 100 hours of footage from the National Geographic archives that was long believed to be lost, and featuring a gorgeous musical scor...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:14
It looks like the big blockbuster of the summer is not a superhero or science fiction film, but, surprisingly, a movie set during World War II. Dun...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 04:33
Actor and comedian Kumail Nadjiani and his wife Emily V. Gordon wrote a screenplay about their own very unusual courtship. With Michael Showalter d...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 03:49
Among the films of Federico Fellini are a few that have achieved classic status, and deservedly so, such as La Strada, La Dolce Vita, and 8 ½. But ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 04:45
When you put something on a pedestal, it becomes a prime target for pigeons. Or to put it another way – if a certain movie consistently shows up on...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 05:52
This week, as promised, I’m continuing my discussion of Citizen Kane, Orson Welles’ famous debut film from 1941. Last time I talked about why the f...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 04:45
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
We lost a lot of people last year. One of them particularly close to my heart was the Iranian writer/director Abbas Kiarostami, who died in July of...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 04:38