Today is Midday at the Movies, our monthly focus on new films and film-industry trends with movie aficionados Jed Dietz, founding director of the Maryland Film Festival, and Max Weiss, film critic and Editor-in-Chief of Baltimore Magazine.
Our insiders look back at the winners of Oscars 2025. What surprised them about the ceremony.
Plus, remembering Gene Hackman's long career in Hollywood and a review of No Other Land, a documentary following the unlikely friendship between a Israeli and Palestinian filmmaker. In the West Bank, the pair document a Palestinian community's harrowing existence in the path of Israeli settlements.