Film

Is there anything that can break the cycle of violence and incarceration in Baltimore's poorest neighborhoods? Today, on The Lines Between Us, we look at the role of fathers. Tom Hall talks with Joe Jones from the Center for Urban Families, which works to keep fathers in their children's lives.

Then, the best and worst of summer cinema, with Washington Post  film critic Ann Hornaday and Maryland Film Festival director Jed Dietz.

Midday critics Linda DeLibero and Christopher Llewellyn Reed discuss author Mark Osteen’s fresh take on the gritty genre in his new book, Nightmare Alley: Film Noir And the American Dream (Johns Hopkins University Press).

June 7, 2013

Is the number of female film critics declining?  A new study says yes.  We talk about it with our movie folks, Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post and Jed Dietz of the Maryland Film Festival.  

June 3, 2013

It's been 59 years since Brown vs. Board of Education, but in today's courts, lingering inequality is still being challenged. We talk with two civil rights attorneys Ted Shaw and Susan Goering.

Then, we talk with two filmmakers Joe Troppea and Skizz Cyzyk about their recent film, Hit and Stay, a documentary about the Catonsville nine.

And theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck joins us to tell us what she thinks about musical "American Idiot" at the Hippodrome.

May 10, 2013

The documentary Hit and Stay, screening tomorrow at the Maryland Film Festival, shows how the Vietnam War protest strategy of the Baltimore Four and Catonsville Nine spread around the country. We'll meet the filmmakers, Joe Tropea and Skizz Cyzyk.

On The Lines Between Us, we look in the psychological effects of "administrative segregation" and "disciplinary segregation" on Maryland prisoners and how they compare to solitary confinement.

Then, Jed Dietz of the Maryland Film Festival and Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post tell us what movies to look out for at this year's Maryland Film Festival.

May 3, 2013

April 30, 2013

April 22, 2013