Everything we do is filtered through entertainment. If it’s not entertaining, there is a good chance that nobody is paying attention. So, to understand the world, you have to not only look at your screen but comprehend what is on it. Where does our entertainment come from? Why? How is it shaped by the world around us and how is it shaping that same world?
This is the focus of The Entertainment. Each week, Tom Knoblauch explores an element of our culture through conversations with creators and consumers of film, television, music, art, and more.
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Everything we do is filtered through entertainment. If it’s not entertaining, there is a good chance that nobody is paying attention. So, to understand the world, you have to not only look at your screen but comprehend what is on it. Where does our entertainment come from? Why? How is it shaped by the world around us and how is it shaping that same world?
This is the focus of The Entertainment. Each week, Tom Knoblauch explores an element of our culture through conversations with creators and consumers of film, television, music, art, and more.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It’s the time of year where awards bodies, critics, and audiences alike are all finally able to catch up on the notable releases of the past year, to look in retrospect at trends, and start to let works settle in ways that they don’t always in the heat of the moment. Most critics will do a best of list, awards bodies have released or already given out their awards. But the idea of our episode today is not to look to the critics who have access to all of the prestige movies, or who have seen exclusive premieres at festivals, but to instead give you a perspective on the last year on our screens from Midwest authorities on film, television, and streaming. So we put together a roundtable discussion where we invited three guests to give their take on 2024: Ryan Syrek, longtime critic for The Reader, Genevieve Radosti, critic and author of I was a Twenty-Something CineMama, and Paul Sanchez, education manager at our local arthouse theater Film Streams.
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