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Guiltless titillation

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

Here's a way to have guiltless titillation and take a time travel back to the fifties: See The Notorious Bettie Page, a sweet biopic about the most famous pin-up next to Marilyn Monroe. Yes, see a fetchingly dark haired Page be innocently naughty with some outrageously bonding costumes or none at all because Bettie could do it all naively so sincere you might believe she thought her soft sadomasochistic photographs innocent indulgence for nice people.

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Films reviewed: Casanova, Tristan & Isolde, Breakfast on Pluto

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.

Low-level Wagner without the music.

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

"If they be two, they are two so

As stiff twin compasses are two . . . ." John Donne

Tristan & Isolde is low-level Wagner without the music, a fairly-faithful rendition of the classic story of a young hero, Tristan (James Franco), asked by Cornwall's fifth-century King Mark (Rufus Sewell) to win the hand of the Irish king's daughter, Isolde (Sophia Miles), for marriage.

Honest and Exciting

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

"There be some sports are painful, and their labor

Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness

Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters

Point to rich ends." Shakespeare, The Tempest

One of the best farces, regardless of period,in years.

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

"Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life!" Georges Bernanos

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By hosts John DeSando and Clay Lowe with film critic Johnny DiLoretto substituting for 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.

Who cares if we've been hoodwinked?

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

When it comes to contemporary animations, I think of the witty lines lampooning popular culture while delighting children evident in such features as Wallace and Gromit, Shrek, and Shark's Tale. But now comes Hoodwinked to make me forget those relatively mild satires.

Films reviewed: Munich, Brokeback Mountain, Memoirs of a Geisha

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.

Some laughs and much respect.

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

"It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered . . . that we are behind our age . . . . Sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress . . . ." Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

A majestic tale.

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

"This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody." Feminist Rita Mae Brown (1982, about the opening of the Gay Olympics in San Francisco)

Films reviewed: Fun with DIck and Jane, Duma, Hoodwinked

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 good old-fashioned pet tale

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

"Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat."

Irish proverb

A curious simplicity in the film's vision

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

"Who has not felt how sadly sweet

The dream of home, the dream of home,

Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet,

When far o'er sea or land we roam?" Thomas Moore

Go with at least two cars.

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

"I'm going to do something now they used to do in Vietnam. It's called making a head on a stick." Mick Taylor, Wolf Creek

Films reviewed: King Kong, Chronicles of Narnia, Family Stone

By hosts John DeSando, Clay Lowe, and guest critic Wayne Miller

"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.

One of the best movies of the year.

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

Is Peter "Lord-of-the-Rings" Jackson's King Kong too long? Yes, by a half hour at least. Are its special effects the best in the history of cinema? Yes, by most standards. Is it one of the best films of the year? Yes, by any standard.

Half has edge.

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

The first half or so of The family Stone is iconoclastic and edgy; the second is trite and sappy. But then I loved Billy Bob Thornton's Bad Santa, so you know where I'm coming from. I loved how the film attacks prejudice in the form of Sarah Jessica Parker's Meredith Morton, an uptight fianc?e of Dermot Mulroney's Everett Stone. To her, laid-back, similarly outsider brother Ben Stone (Luke Wilson) says, "You have the freak flag... you just don't fly it."

Films reviewed: Syriana, Aeon Flux, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing

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 figurative and literal nail-biter.

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

"I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilisation. It's a lout's game." Rebecca West