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I’m a devotee of silent films, which I love and collect, yet even I have to admit that, in many cases, one must make certain allowances in terms of...
- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 03:58
A woman painter in an age (the 18th century) when such women were rare, is hired to paint a portrait of a countess’s daughter, who is living on a w...
- Added: Mar 04, 2020
- Length: 04:17
Mycology has been a relatively neglected subject over the years. It’s the study of mycelium, which is a term for the vegetative part of a fungus, c...
- Added: Feb 27, 2020
- Length: 04:00
The central dramatic figure of our time is the migrant, whose shifting, uncertain, and perilous fate reflects that of our world. Atlantics, the fir...
- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 04:43
Dark Waters tells the story of Robert Bilott, a corporate lawyer with a Cincinnati firm that specialized in defending big chemical corporations aga...
- Added: Feb 12, 2020
- Length: 04:56
In 1935, Hitler had been in power in Germany for two years. The rest of Europe desperately hoped that the disaster that was the Great War of 1914 t...
- Added: Feb 09, 2020
- Length: 04:31
Thinking back on 2019, preparing to put together a list of my favorite films from last year, I was struck more than ever by how my movie experience...
- Added: Feb 03, 2020
- Length: 04:52
Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer, an African American, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative in 1989. The EJI provides legal assistance to prisoners ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 04:50
I became a fan of the Safdie brothers, Josh and Benny, after I saw their previous film from a couple years ago, Good Time, which I reviewed on this...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Jan 23, 2020
- Length: 04:27
- Purchases: 1
Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women has been adapted into movies quite a few times before now. The book has usually been relegated to th...
- Added: Jan 16, 2020
- Length: 04:46
Over the long career of director Terrence Malick, he’s developed a unique style all his own, featuring extensive voice-over narration accompanied b...
- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 04:57
This time of year I’m often asked about what films I recommend to watch for the holiday and I have to say, “Sorry, I’m not really a fan of Christma...
- Added: Jan 02, 2020
- Length: 04:41
I just saw a film that touched me deeply, a movie playing at the multiplex for which I had not seen any ads or trailers. It’s about a fairly afflue...
- Added: Jan 02, 2020
- Length: 03:39
Noah Baumbach’s new film is called Marriage Story. As you might expect from a writer and director with a humorous and ironic view of life, the titl...
- Added: Dec 18, 2019
- Length: 04:38
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
Edward Norton is the director and lead actor of this entertaining detective mystery set in 1950s Brooklyn, a story that features political corrupti...
- Added: Dec 11, 2019
- Length: 04:05
Bong Joon Ho’s fiendishly clever new film takes aim at the issue of class, reflected in a tale of a family of criminals invading the home of a weal...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Dec 11, 2019
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 1
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
In early 2003, when the George W. Bush administration was pushing for an invasion of Iraq, with the support of Britain’s government, headed by Tony...
- Added: Nov 19, 2019
- Length: 04:48
Vince Gilligan is a producer, writer and director, working primarily in television. He’s the creator of Breaking Bad, a series that ran for five se...
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- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 04:57
- Purchases: 1
Werner Herzog’s 1972 masterwork attacks the colonial mindset through the story of an insane Spanish conquistador searching for a lost city of gold ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 03:24
Renée Zellweger gives a stunning performance as Judy Garland in the last year of her life, performing in London while suffering from the drug addic...
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- Added: Oct 30, 2019
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 1
Two documentaries about independent journalism: the first chronicles the life and career of the maverick opinion columnist Molly Ivins; the second ...
- Added: Oct 30, 2019
- Length: 04:56
A young man with Down Syndrome resists society’s patronizing approach to his life and possibilities, by escaping from a nursing home and going on a...
- Added: Oct 30, 2019
- Length: 04:20
This stylish 1981 cult favorite from Jean-Jacques Beineix tells of a young man’s obsession with an opera singer, and his accidental involvement in ...
- Added: Oct 30, 2019
- Length: 04:02