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Another year of the COVID-19 pandemic meant another year of films (and filmmakers) barely scraping the barrel in terms of recognition and financial success at the box office. Theaters slowly started to open, but with new variants of the virus […]
Legendary Old West lawman Wyatt Earp fought at the O.K. Corral, and then rode off into the sunset… but the story doesn’t end there. Scott Bunn, who co-hosts the podcast Run That Back, and authors the Bob Dylan blog ReclinerNotes.com, […]
In the 1870s, traveling by train through Palisade, Nevada was a heart-stopping experience. It was a Wild West hive of scum and villainy, with a constant tumult of fistfights, gunfights, and robberies in broad daylight. Except it was all fake […]
DC Comics has had a mixed record at the movies, but Boston Globe writer Nick Zaino, host of the podcast Department of Tangents, Subject Radio DJ, and first-ever WITNAM guest, returns to tell us why long-running, lesser-known DC title The […]
In 2020, a local TV host from Nebraska gained internet fame for a montage of her hilariously blunt interviews with A-list actors from the ’70s and ’80s. But her story goes far beyond one viral clip, as Drake burst into […]
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, so this week we have a true-life story from Kate Ranta, author of Killing Kate: A Story of Turning Abuse and Tragedy into Transformation and Triumph. Her seemingly happy marriage turned into a nightmare […]
Something different this week, as we’re talking about something that already is a movie: The Moment, a film that’s edited in real time by an audience member’s brainwaves. Director Richard Ramchurn talks to us about the technology behind his remarkable […]
Welcome back to Season 3 of Why Is This Not a Movie?! Every schoolchild knows the story of the Wright Brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk. But less well known is what came next — a tense couple of years […]
It seems we’re at a point in our zeitgeist where social media is the new norm for sharing information. People, especially our generation, rely more on posts shared and direct messages to get their daily news than actual news sources. […]
In 1856, a 23-year-old woman named Kate Warne walked into the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency and demanded a job. They had never hired a woman to be anything other than a secretary, but she impressed them so much they made […]