Movies

An agreement signed last month by the United Steelworkers Union has left 1600 Sparrows Point workers without health benefits or an active pension plan.  We talk with Baltimore Brew reporter Mark Reutter about how it happened so quickly--and what's next for the plant.

Then – On Sunday, the Found Footage Festival brings the best of the worst of VHS to the Creative Alliance. Nathan Sterner talks to festival co-founder Nick Prueher about what kind of bizarre and inadvertently hilarious footage lurks in the nation's thrift stores.

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.

With new numbers out this morning from the Bureau of Labor Statistics we take a look at Maryland’s economy. The House is considering a measure that would change how and where septic systems are developed in Maryland.

Yesterday was the deadline for initial recommendations from a special state Senate committee on ethics reform. We’ll talk to the chair of that committee, Democratic State Senator Jamie Raskin, about potential changes in how Maryland’s legislators police themselves.

Not sure how to celebrate National Grammar Day? Let John McIntyre of the Baltimore Sun show you the way.

Post-Oscars punditry from Jed Dietz and Mike Sragow.

The future of the health care exchange, the social media impact of the Occupy movement and the Movies segment heads to the Diner!

David Helsel is the new CEO of the highest-level security mental facility in Maryland, Mike Sragow and Jed Dietz talk movies, the latests on what the unemployment numbers mean for Maryland and a review from J Wynn Rousuck  of La Cage Aux Folles.