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Discussing the Year in Movies with Michael Smith, Film Critic at The Tulsa World

Aired on Tuesday, December 22nd.

On this installment of ST, a look back at several of the more notable movies of 2015 with Michael Smith, the film critic at The Tulsa World. He joined this city's daily paper in 1996, and just to be clear about matters from the outset: Smith recently wrote in that newspaper that he thinks "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is the "best film in [that] franchise." Really? That good? We let Smith make his case on our program today while also discussing such other standout motion pictures as "The Martian," "The Hateful Eight," "Trumbo," "Brooklyn," "Spectre," "Bridge of Spies," "The Revenant," "Room," and more. Also on this edition of our show, on a related topic, commentator Jeff Nix is wondering why Hollywood seems more fixated on sequels and prequels these days than ever before.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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