The Movie Music Spotlight
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The Bluesky page for our radio show. Since 2014, we feature scores and songs from an actor / actress / filmmaker / film composer / film genres. LISTEN LIVE: WBOI.org PLAYLISTS:
This week on the Spotlight, a rebroadcast of our 2021 episode on filmmaker Christopher Nolan. Music from films like "Insomnia", the Batman trilogy, "Inception", "Dunkirk", and "Tenet". Sorry, no "Oppenheimer". Thursday at 10 PM / Sunday at 7 PM (all times EDT) LISTEN LIVE: WBOI.org
In 1935, Sinatra (along with three members of The Hoboken Four) made his movie debut in a short called "Major Bowes' Amateur Theater of the Air No. 3". In blackface.
I was in the audience on opening night for "Jaws 2". When this happened, the entire crowd burst into outrageous laughter and derision. My sides still hurt from laughter.
Friday June 5, 2026 - Big Boy heading east just outside Fort Wayne, IN.
This radio station was named Kowalski, in honour of the last American hero to whom speed means freedom of the soul. The question is not when's he gonna stop, but who is gonna stop him.
Sock it to me, Jim. Gollllllllllyyy, Ruth! Holy fecking shit!
"Ammonite" movie still, 2020. L to R: Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan. PLOT: Acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning (Winslet) and a young woman (Ronan) sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
"Little Women" movie still, 2019. Clockwise from top left: Saoirse Ronan, Laura Dern, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen.
Margot Robbie and Saoirse Ronan pose for the press at the London premiere of "Mary Queen of Scots" - December 10, 2018.
On the set of "Lady Bird", 2017. L to R: Writer/director Greta Gerwig, Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf. PLOT: In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl (Ronan) comes of age in Sacramento, California. Saoirse dyed her hair red and chose not to wear makeup to cover her real acne.
"On Chesil Beach" movie still, 2017. L to R: Billy Howle, Saoirse Ronan. PLOT: In 1962 England, a young couple (Ronan, Howle) find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
"Brooklyn" movie still, 2015. Saoirse Ronan as Éilis Lacey. PLOT: An Irish immigrant (Ronan) lands in 1950s Brooklyn where she quickly falls into a romance with a local (Emory Cohen). She then must choose between Ireland and the United States and the lives that exist within.
"The Grand Budapest Hotel" movie still, 2014. L to R: Tony Revolori, Saoirse Ronan. PLOT: A lobby boy (Revolori) serves under an exceptional concierge (Ralph Fiennes) at a famous hotel. Ronan plays a baker who falls in love with the lobby boy