Netta Ulaby
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Podcast Appearances
This is a dead time of year in movie theaters, and that's good for horror movie fans.
That's from a new horror movie called Undertone, about a haunted podcast.
It opens not today, but in March, which also has a Friday the 13th.
Stephen follows as a film data analyst.
He says the date does not make a real difference financially.
To make a killing at the box office, he says, a horror movie has to slay.
More than 130 years of filmmaking are represented in the registry.
The oldest movie added this year was a silent film comedy from 1896.
Other films added to the collection include two musicals starring Bing Crosby, one a holiday classic.
And two more recent dramas, Philadelphia and Glory, that star Denzel Washington.
The National Film Registry also added classic films for Generation X, such as The Karate Kid and Clueless, and an iconic film for baby boomers, The Big Chill.
On all five seasons of The Wire, Isaiah Whitlock Jr.
stole scene after scene, like in this one, where his character, a crooked politician, is on trial for stealing money from a children's basketball team.
He demolishes the prosecution by saying he empties his personal pockets for needy constituents.
Whitlock trained at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.