Jed Dietz

Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post joins Jed Dietz of the Maryland Film Festival to discuss the best--and worst--of winter cinema. It includes Quentin Tarantino's Django, Unchained, Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty, and Peter Jackson's The Hobbit. 

From a small hobbit to an unfaithful Russian lady--there's a lot of movies to see this holiday season. Tom Hall talks to Jed Deitz and Mike Sragow about December's best flicks.

Take this week's weather as a sign to invest in some quality indoor activities. Here to help you is Tom Hall, Jed Deitz and Mike Sragow, with the November films that will keep you glued in front of the big screen.

How do vacants relate to inequality in the region?  In the latest installment of "The Lines Between Us," we hear from residents in neighborhoods with vacants about the problems they cause, and talk to Eric Siegel and Mel Freeman about why some neighborhoods are more affected than others.

Producer Stephanie Hughes reports on Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's Vacants to Value program, which hopes to bring homeowners to vacants homes in transitional neighborhoods across the city.

If you're looking for a flick to see this month, October's got everything from sci-fi to stopmotion. Here to help us sort through it all are our resident movie experts Jed Dietz and Mike Sragow.

With the trail of summer blockbusters coming to its close, Maryland Morning's movie experts Jed Dietz and Mike Sragow sit down to sort  through the upcoming rush of fall flicks. And they've already found several standouts.

Jed Dietz of the Maryland Film Fesival and Mike Sragow of the Baltimore Sun team up with Tom Hall to bring you the latest on what's best on the silver screen.

Baltimore is the home of the “Red Cross Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center,” which processes requests from families looking for information about loved ones who went missing during World War Two. We revisit a conversation with Sue Bornemann, who works at the center, and Bertha Shwarz, who enlisted its services. Then, a group of University Park residents pool their money and install solar panels on top of a local church. Plus, Tom Hall talks to Mike Sragow and Jed Dietz about the latest movie releases.

Tom Hall talks with our masters of movies, our foremost flop forecasters, our predominant motion picture ponderers–that is to say 

This conversation first aired December 5, 2011.