The Chicago Tribune’s Michael Phillips and Tasha Robinson from The Next Picture Show are back for this year’s Best of ’19 roundtable, and in part one it’s the panel’s “outlier” picks – films which only made a single Top 10.…
Belarus: The Wild World of Chernobyl
1/9/20 podcast from the BBC show, “Assignment.” This episode features 90-year-old Galina, one of the last witnesses to the wild natural world that preceded the Chernobyl zone in southern Belarus. ‘We lived with wolves’ she says ‘and moose, and elk…
Five Films from 2019 Nominated for Best Documentary
With the Academy Awards set for Feb. 9th, take a few minutes to focus on the five films nominated for Best Documentary Feature. Two films are available to watch in full on Netflix, a third is available via PBS online.…
The True Story Behind ‘Just Mercy’
In 1992, Ed Bradley reported that the wrong man might have been sitting on Alabama’s death row. “Just Mercy,” a movie about the case, opens in theaters this week. (Source: 60 Minutes)
Fresh Air: ‘Boys & Sex’ with Peggy Orenstein
Peggy Orenstein’s new book, ‘Boys & Sex,’ is based on extensive interviews with more than 100 college and college-bound boys between the ages of 16 and 22. “When I was doing [‘Girls & Sex’] the kind of core issue with…