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We talk about Christmas horror movies, and how this gleefully perverse genre represents the darker side of the holiday season.
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 37:12
We talk about the fear of isolation–both physical and emotional–and how it’s connected to portrayals of grief in rural horror movies.
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 35:35
Frank Capra’s parable about goodness versus the tyranny of profit bombed on its original release, but then gradually gained classic status with lat...
- Added: Jan 25, 2023
- Length: 03:33
An experiment in how people will react to videos of Israeli army and settler interactions with Palestinians becomes a fascinating study challenging...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 03:32
Guillermo del Toro adds his own Gothic sensibility to this thrilling new version of an old film noir.
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 03:15
French director Mia Hansen-Løve is a real cinephile. She loves to think and talk about film history and the works of famous filmmakers. Although sh...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:01
A married woman visits three friends in the city, and we are inspired to consider what is the nature of happiness for women in a “man’s world.”
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:19
The Harlem Cultural Festival was a music festival taking place in the same summer of 1969 as Woodstock, and its amazing line-up, and insight into h...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 1
Wes Anderson’s playful new film is presented as an issue of a Paris-based American magazine, with three stories about the eternal appeal of non-con...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:20
A film from Norway about a young woman seeking fulfillment in relationships takes the conventions of romantic comedy and turns them over to reveal ...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:27
Mikio Naruse’s great 1960 film presents a compassionate view of the life of bar hostesses in a disreputable section of Tokyo.
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 03:20
Dan Crary joins Unreal Bluegrass , new CD Prime Time
- Added: May 15, 2020
- Length: 01:07:41
The Irishman is the latest film from the now legendary director Martin Scorsese. It reunites him with his favorite actor Robert De Niro, and Joe Pe...
- Added: Dec 11, 2019
- Length: 04:58
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
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
It may take a while to process your feelings once you’ve seen Hereditary, the scary debut feature from writer-director Ari Aster. A lot of horror m...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:45
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
For decades, controversy has brewed in DC over whether the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge should be opened to oil and gas exploration. This week, ...
- Added: May 04, 2018
- Length: 19:59
The Post, Steven Spielberg’s latest film, tells a complex and fascinating true life story—the decision by The Washington Post in 1971 to print The ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 04:03
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
Watching a Guatemalan film is not an everyday event here in the States, much less one whose dialogue is primarily in Kaqchikel, a Maya Indian langu...
- Added: Jan 05, 2017
- Length: 03:50
Graphics in video games are undoubtedly one of the most talked topics in gaming. By speaking with Dr. Dennis Woytek, I hope to give the audience a ...
- Added: Mar 29, 2014
- Length: 07:56
Randall Coleman and I talk about the impact video game communities have on the development of new titles.
- Added: Mar 22, 2014
- Length: 08:35
A fair is so long so that you can get around to eat everything being offered. Eat your walleye on a stick, and then eat the stick because it's mad...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Aug 10, 2010
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 1
