SHOW TIME

The great Lauren Gilger, Mark Brodie and the whole gang at The Show...

...on KJZZ made me feel welcome this morning as I babbled on, barely coherently, about this year's batch of summer movies. Great fun!

SUMMERTIME VIEWS

There may not be a cure for the summertime blues, but going to summer movies has long been a source of temporary relief. Your Humble Narrator had fun chatting with Mark Brodie of KJZZ's The Show...

...about some of the big midyear releases; listen to it here.

FORECASTING DIRECTOR

As prestige movie season approaches, Your Humble Narrator had the chance to chat about Oscar-bait movies with Lauren Gilger for this morning's edition of The Show on KJZZ...

You can listen to the interview here.

I'M RADIO ACTIVE

A couple of weeks ago Your Humble Narrator enjoyed chatting with Mark Brodie of The Show on KJZZ...

...about summer blockbuster season, and the future of the blockbuster at the multiplexes. It aired yesterday; give a listen.

SHOWERS AND BLADES

Happy Psycho Day everybody!

That's right, December 11 (at two-forty-three p.m.) is the day when, according to the opening titles, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho begins, right here in Phoenix, Arizona...

Saturday before last was, by Phoenix standards, pretty rainy. Your Humble Narrator was driving home up I-17 and listening to Reel Music, the movie music show on KBAQ...

...which was devoted that evening to scores from Hitchcock flicks. So there I was, listening to Bernard Herrmann's great theme from Psycho, with my windshield wipers keeping time, and it occurred to me that this was likely as close as I would ever get to knowing what it felt like to be Janet Leigh...