Film

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.

The digital revolution marks the biggest change in movie-making since the advent of sound, and anyone who loves movies should know what's at stake. This month's edition of Midday on Film: How digital has affected not only movie-making but the viewing experience, with Linda DeLibero, associate director of film studies at The Johns Hopkins University, and filmmaker Christopher Llewellyn Reed, chair and associate professor of the Department of Film and Video at Stevenson University.

As Sandy bears down on Maryland, we talk live with Baltimore Sun reporter Scott Dance in Ocean City. We also call out to Western Maryland to ask University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science president Don Boesch what this storm can do to the bay.

The Civil War shaped America in ways that continue to play out 150 years later. We talk with George Wunderlich, who runs the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, about how a set of orders issued in 1862 formed the basis of modern emergency medical treatment.

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.

Maryland is one of just four states that deny damage awards if you are at all at fault in an accident. We’ll talk to a law professor and a reporter about why Maryland’s highest court may soon change that.

Then, during the Iran hostage crisis, the CIA cooked up a scheme to extract several American diplomats. It’s the subject of the new Ben Affleck movie "Argo." The spy who organized the plot has retired to western Maryland; he’ll tell us how it went down.

And J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the Arena Players' performance of Smokey Joe's Café.

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.