Midday at the Movies

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Midday at the Movies: Oscar Awards 2024

Tom Hall

Tom and the Midday movie crew discuss this year's Oscar nominees in advance of The Academy's annual awards show this weekend.

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Midday at the Movies with Jed Dietz

Tom Hall

Tom holds his monthly movie conversation with Jed Dietz, former director of the Maryland Film Festival.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone in "Killers of the Flower Moon"

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Movies: "Killers of the Flower Moon" and Lady Bird Johnson

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Midday is back to the movies this month. Tom speaks with Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday and Maryland Film Festival Founder Jed Dietz about "Killers of the Flower Moon," Lady Bird Johnson and more.

Theater Camp (2023) stars Ben Platt, Molly Gordon and Noah Galvin.

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Movies: What made a splash at the summer's movie festivals? Plus, reviewing Passages, Theater Camp and more.

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Jed Dietz and Ann Hornaday recap the New Next Film Festival. Plus, will music documentaries save theaters as movie production remains halted and new releases are delayed?

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Movies: Previewing the 'New/Next Film Fest,' coming to The Charles

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On our monthly look at films and filmmaking, Tom and Maryland Film Festival founder Jed Dietz talk with a producer and a curator of the WYPR-sponsored New/Next Film Festival, running August 18-20 at The Charles theater in Baltimore.

Asteroid City is directed by Wes Anderson, and produced by studios Focus Features and Indian Paintbrush.

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Movies: Tom Cruise's mission to save cinema, again

Tom Hall

Welcome to Midday at the Movies. This month our critics will discuss "Mission Impossible," "Asteroid City," and"Past Lives." We'll also take a look back at the career of actor Alan Arkin.

Quintessa Swindell and Joel Edgerton star in Master Gardener, written and directed by Paul Schrader.

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Movies: Master Gardener, Starling Girl and the legacy of Iron Man

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Today is Midday's monthly visit to the movies. Listen to the latest on the writers' strike, big feature films and independent flicks.

In Chevalier, Kelvin Harrison Jr. stars as Joseph Bologne, who rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with a love affair and falling out with Marie Antoinette. (Photo by Larry Horricks)

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Movies: "Chevalier," "Showing Up," Hollywood writers' strike impact

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Midday movie mavens Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post and Jed Dietz of the Maryland Film Festival join us to discuss the writers' strike and what's new at the movies.

The poster art for "Little Richard: I Am Everything," the new documentary by Lisa Cortes about the life and impact of Richard Wayne Penniman, the Black queer musician who became the influential rock n roll icon known as Little Richard. (Poster art credit: Bungalow Media + Entertainment)

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Movies! Little Richard, Brooke Shields docs, best flicks of '23

Tom Hall

Midday movie mavens Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post and Jed Dietz of the Maryland Film Festival join us for our monthly look at what's new in films and filmmaking.

Michelle Yeoh in a scene from "Everything Everywhere All At Once," an A24 film directed by "Daniels" (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert). The rollicking multiverse parable has earned 11 Academy Award nominations -- more than any other film contending this year -- including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Yeoh) and Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor and Actress. The 95th annual Oscars presentation will be held on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles, CA and will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide. (image courtesy A24 Films)

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Movies, the Oscars edition: Our picks for the top artists and flicks

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Baltimore Magazine's Max Weiss and Maryland Film festival founder Jed Dietz join us to spotlight which of 2022's best films and film artists will — or should — win Oscars on March 12th. And we share your predicitions as well!