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By John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

"When they f--- with me," Jackie DiNorscio says, "they wake a sleeping giant."

A delightful romp through filmmaking

By John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

"People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal." Andy Warhol

Films reviewed: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, Ask the Dust, The Saddest Music in the WOrld

By Hosts John DeSando & Clay Lowe

"It's Movie Time" has won 8 national awards including Silver Microphone and Communicator national honors.

Drs. Lowe and DeSando were moderator and panelist respectively on TV 25's "World Film Classics." Both have been professors, Lowe at The Ohio State University and DeSando at Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio.

Tempering the darkness with resignation.

By John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

"I am a lover of beasts and men."

So Colin Farrell's writer, Arturo Bandini, reveals his humanistic longings and along the way his inexperience with humans. His love is the Mexican beauty Camilla, played better than Katy Jurado ever could by Salma Hyeck, with whom he fights from the cute meeting to the very end. But it is a love nevertheless, with a strength often given only to those who fight passionately.

Films reviewed: "V for Vendetta," "When We Were Kings," "Ballets Russes"

By hosts John DeSando and Clay Lowe

"It's Movie Time" has won 8 national awards including Silver Microphone and Communicator national honors.

Drs. Lowe and DeSando were moderator and panelist respectively on TV 25's "World Film Classics." Both have been professors, Lowe at The Ohio State University and DeSando at Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio.

Utopia's quite another land.

By John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

"Who was that masked man?"

From The Lone Rsnger to Zorro to Batman, and all other masked marvels in between, our fascination with disguised do-gooders doesn't die. Add a worthy entrant into that pantheon: graphic novelist Alan Moore's futuristic avenger, V, who roams London purging it of criminals common and famous, all of whom suffer his rage at having been abused in a government experiment years ago.

Films reviewed: "The Libertine," "Neil Young: Heart of Gold," "Why We Fight"

By hosts John DeSando and Clay Lowe

"It's Movie Time" has won 8 national awards including Silver Microphone and Communicator national honors.

Drs. Lowe and DeSando were moderator and panelist respectively on TV 25's "World Film Classics." Both have been professors, Lowe at The Ohio State University and DeSando at Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio.

The most versatile and indefatigable actor in American film.

By John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

"You will not like me." Second Earl of Rochester in prologue.

Columbus, OH – Click on the mp3 link to hear WCBE's story on Tom Brokaw's visit to Ohio State.

Films reviewed: "The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada," "Dave Chapelle's Block Party," "Clay's Oscar Picks"

By hosts John DeSando and Clay Lowe

"It's Movie Time" has won 8 national awards including Silver Microphone and Communicator national honors.

Drs. Lowe and DeSando were moderator and panelist respectively on TV 25's "World Film Classics." Both have been professors, Lowe at The Ohio State University and DeSando at Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio.

A worthy Oscar contender

By John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

"Hell is yourself [and the only redemption is] when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person." Tennessee Williams

Concert gold.

By John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

When Neil Young breaks from singing his own lyrical compositions in Neil Young: Heart of Gold to sing what he calls the most beautiful song ever composed, I knew exactly which Canadian piece it would be, for it was mine too. I listened as a young man to Ian Tyson's "Four Strong Winds" for an entire evening, over and over, as Young did emptying his pockets for a juke box at 16 years old in Calgary. Young had my heart for this performance and a lifetime.

By Columbus, OH

March 1, 2006 – Click on the mp3 link to hear WCBE's interview with OSU's Sam Maniar.

More information about Sam and other aspects of sports psychology at Ohio State can be found at:

Buckeye Sport Psychology Services

A mixed bag of horrors.

By John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

I'm quite sure the forces of evil, the dark side, are the inventors of the quick cut, immortalized by MTV and nurtured by every action director who can keep the film moving fast and not bother about the accuracy of the images: because you can't see anything in the blur. Such is the blinding pace of Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch, not too different from the rapid images of Matrix and Underworld, and scores of other low-key, plot heavy sci-fi thrillers.

By Columbus, OH

February 23, 2006 – Click on the mp3 link to hear WCBE's coverage of Mayor Coleman's seventh State of the City address.

Films reviewed: Cache, Freedomland, Mrs. Henderson Presents, Ushpizin

By hosts John DeSando and Clay Lowe

"It's Movie Time" has won 8 national awards including Silver Microphone and Communicator national honors.

Drs. Lowe and DeSando were moderator and panelist respectively on TV 25's "World Film Classics." Both have been professors, Lowe at The Ohio State University and DeSando at Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio.

It's not "in pace" getting there.

By John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

February 15, 2006 – Click on the mp3 link to hear about the CSO's maestro.

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Julianne Moore looking for a child again.

By John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

Julianne Moore is looking for a child again, but this time it's real time, hardscrabble New Jersey projects rather than the mind of a perplexing mom (Forgotten, 2004). Moore plays Brenda Martin, who claims to have lost her son to a carjacker who absconded with her son sleeping in the back seat? Veteran detective Lorenzo Council is indeed the counseling type whose patience with the ranting Martin wears thin as he suspects lies among her details of the abduction.

Films reviewed: The World's Fastest Indian, The White Countess, Eight Below

By hosts John DeSando and Clay Lowe

"It's Movie Time" has won 8 national awards including Silver Microphone and Communicator national honors.

Drs. Lowe and DeSando were moderator and panelist respectively on TV 25's "World Film Classics." Both have been professors, Lowe at The Ohio State University and DeSando at Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio.