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Films reviewed: OLIVER STONE SAMPLER:
"Platoon," "Born on the Fourth of July," "JFK," "Nixon"

By hosts John DeSando and Clay Lowe

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

Hoping for Ealing Studios' Magic

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

"The time is past, /And all its aching joys are now no more." Wordsworth

Films reviewed: An Inconvenient Truth, Over the Hedge, L' Enfant

By hosts John DeSando and Clay Lowe

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

Films reviewed: A Prairie Home Companion, Cars

By hosts John DeSando and Clay Lowe

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

We just love our cars.

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

"I don't even like old cars . . . . I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake." J.D. Salinger

Although America's love affair with the auto is currently threatening the country's economic and environmental stability, the creators of Toy Story take us to an imaginative world in which there are no humans to upset balances, just cars grooving to the sounds of competition, love, and family values.

A song of love . . .

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

?It?s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.? Marilyn Monroe about posing nude on her famous calendar.

Films reviewed: The Break-Up, Water, Keeping Up with the Steins

By hosts John DeSando and Clay Lowe

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

Grade: B
Director: Deepa Mehta(Bandit Queen)
Screenplay: Mehta
Cast: Seema Biswas (Bandit Queen), Lisa Rey (Bollywood, Hollywood)

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

"Was never widow had so dear a loss!" Shakespeare, King Richard III

Films reviewed: The Da Vinci Code, X-Men: The Last Stand

By hosts John DeSando and Clay Lowe

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

Right behind Da Vinci Code for highly entertaining, light summer fare.

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

By the government's finding the cure for the mutant strain in X-Men: The Last Stand, the death knell has rung for the tripartite series inspired by the comic book series. What more can I say? Society might be considered better if, for instance, there were no "mutant" gays or power hungry politicians, or at least that's what some would say about the mixed blessing. Thus there is no future for this franchise, or not?

Columbus, OH – Click on the mp3 link to hear WCBE's story from a recent Columbus Metropolitan Club forum involving Former Columbus Mayors Buck Rinehart and Greg Lashutka

Columbus, OH – Click on the mp3 link to hear WCBE's story from a recent Columbus Council on World Affairs forum.

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It may turn out to be the best movie this summer.

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

"The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" secularly head for the coast as I remember American Pie reporting. The Sisters of Saint Joseph had a decidedly different take for this Catholic boy, one that brooked no argument against the divinity of the Son, Jesus Christ.

Films reviewed: The Notorious Bettie Page, Goal! The Dream Begins, Don't Come Knocking

By hosts John DeSando and Clay Lowe

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

Not exactly Godot.

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

Films reviewed: Art School Confidential, Brick

By hosts John DeSando and Clay Lowe

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

Columbus, OH – Click on the mp3 link to hear WCBE's story on GO! Great Opportunities for Franklin County Kids

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Not a goldbrick.

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

"Film noir experiences periodic rebirth and rediscovery. Whenever we have any moment of deep societal rift or disruption in America, one of the ways we can express it is through the ideas and behavior in film noir." John Briley, cinematographer

Drying paint on a canvas

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

"It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence." Oscar Wilde

The power of words can be the real torture.

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

"If thou dost slander her and torture me,

Never pray more; abandon all remorse;

On horror's head horrors accumulate;

Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed;

For nothing canst thou to damnation add

Greater than that." Shakespeare's Othello