Context and a Movie: "The Social Network"
Dana Stevens, film critic for Slate.com, discusses "The Social Network," the controversial new film about the founding of Facebook by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg; and Baratunde Thurston, comedian...
View ArticleContext and a Movie: "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps"
Dana Stevens, film critic for Slate.com and co-host of their Culture Gabfest, discusses the film "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," the sequel to the "greed is good" original. Also, Joe Nocera, New...
View ArticleContext and a Movie: "The Help"
The Help, based on the popular book by the same name, opened in movie theaters yesterday. Sheri Parks, professor of American studies at the University of Maryland and author of Fierce Angels: The...
View ArticleContext and a Movie: "Contagion"
A lethal pandemic that spreads like wildfire: could it actually happen? Dana Stevens, Slate's film critic and co-host of Slate's Culture Gabfest and Dr. Larry Madoff, Professor of Medicine at the...
View ArticleContext and a Movie: "Moneyball"
Rob Neyer, national baseball editor for Baseball Nation and former employee of baseball statistics legend Bill James, discusses sabermetrics and how it did or did not change baseball. Dana Stevens,...
View ArticleContext and a Movie: "Argo"
Antonio Mendez, former CIA technical operations officer, author of Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History, and A. O. Scott, chief film critic at The New York...
View ArticleContext and a Movie: "Django Unchained"
Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" has sparked conversation and controversy over its use of violence, portayal of slavery, and more. Tricia Rose, professor of Africana Studies at Brown University...
View ArticleContext and a Movie: Zero Dark Thirty
Mark Danner, frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and author of Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror, and A.O. Scott, New York Times chief film critic, discuss...
View ArticleFruitvale Station: Context and a Movie
Bob Butler, reporter at KCBS Radio in the Bay Area, gives context to the new movie "Fruitvale Station" as he's covered the real life Oscar Grant story the movie is based on. He's joined by Wesley...
View ArticleContext and a Movie: "Inside Llewyn Davis"
Dana Stevens, Slate's film critic and co-host of Slate's Culture Gabfest (now airing on WNYC) and Elijah Wald, writer, musician and co-author of The Mayor of MacDougal Street (Da Capo Press, 2006),...
View ArticleContext and A Movie: The Wolf of Wall Street
"The Wolf of Wall Street" depicts drugs, sex and financial misdeeds -- portraying the true story of Jordan Belfort. A.O. Scott, film critic for The New York Times, and Sheelah Kolhatkar, features...
View ArticleSelma's 'Timeliness and Timelessness'
In his review of 'Selma', the critic Wesley Morris wrote that what electrifies the film is the "chilling convergence of timeliness and timelessness." The movie has been nominated for a best picture...
View ArticleThe Big Target on American Sniper
"For years it's been a film-industry truism (and, one imagines, a studio-boardroom cautionary tale) that movies about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan perform poorly at the box office," Dana Stevens...
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