On Friday, December 8, 2017, Linda DeLibero — Director, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University — and Christopher Llewellyn Reed (that's me)-- Chair and Professor, Department of Film & Moving Image, Stevenson University — joined Dan Rodricks on his Baltimore Sun podcast, «Roughly Speaking,» to discuss the following topics: the ongoing revelations of sexual predation and harassment
in both Hollywood and the political
realm; what's currently getting Oscar
buzz; what is currently out
in cinemas that we recommend (including Coco, The Disaster Artist, Lady Bird and the upcoming The Shape of Water); and highlights from the careers of actor Claude Rains (1889 - 1976) and film composer Ennio Morricone (1928 ---RRB-, both of whose birthdays are on November 10, when we originally planned to celebrate them (a podcast we had to cancel for various reasons).