

Politics Feb 22

Our review of the sport of politics and the politics of sport is back for another week on the Doubleheader with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks. For the serious section we talk…
By Hari Sreenivasan
Arts Feb 22

Alcohol has often held a starring role on the silver screen. Academy Award-nominated actress Greta Garbo's opening line in the 1930 film "Anna Christine" (her first part in a "talkie" film) with the immortal words "Gimme a whisky, ginger ale…
By Meredith P. Garretson
Arts Feb 22

We're talking to all of the filmmakers nominated this year for an Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary Feature, including David France, director of "How to Survive a Plague," Malik Bendjelloul ("Searching for Sugarman"), Kirby Dick…
By Molly Finnegan
Arts Feb 21

Whether thumbs up or thumbs down, fresh tomatoes or rotten tomatoes, film critics will never run out of things to say about the Oscar-nominated movies. We've taken their punchy lines and are challenging you to guess which films they're praising…
By Tom LeGro
Feb 20

By Tom LeGro
"The Gatekeepers" is a film that consists mostly of interviews with six men, but they happen to be six former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency. Jeffrey Brown talks to the director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary.
Feb 18

By Tom LeGro
Sexual assault within the U.S. military has been the subject of scandals, studies and a recent congressional hearing. But it's perhaps never been so thoroughly investigated and dramatically presented as in the documentary, "The Invisible War," which has been nominated…
Trailer and clips of "The Invisible War," the Oscar-nominated documentary by Kirby Dick.
Jan 11

By Tom LeGro
This year's Oscar nominations were announced Thursday. From Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" to Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," the choices always stir great interest, debate and offer a chance to look at the direction and quality of movies these days.
Jeffrey Brown talks to Philippe Falardeau, director of "Monsieur Lazhar."…
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