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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.…
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…
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.…
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)
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…
In the mid-1990s, the singer and songwriter Kim Hill met a young rapper who suggested they start making music. That rapper’s name was will.i.am, and his group was a rising Los Angeles underground hip-hop crew called The Black Eyed Peas.…
