Archive for the ‘film’ Category

  • Porn at UM

    Maybe a bunch of college students getting together to watch porn is not the craziest thing you ever heard of. But how about when a university hosts the event?
    Saturday Hoff Theater at University of Maryland will air a midnight showing of “Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge.” School officials have said the showing offers students an alternative [...]

  • Slideshow: ‘Kooza’ premieres in Baltimore


  • Step Up to the Recreation Pier

    Most people know Fells Point’s Recreation Pier as the filming location for the NBC series “Homicide: Life on the Street,” which ran from 1993 to 1999.
    But in 2006, the historic structure was also part of the set for “Step Up,” a fantastically teenaged guilty pleasure of a movie about competitive dance crews, and again for [...]

  • Saratoga Street gets some ‘Action!’

    A funny thing happened on the way to work this morning. Walking down Saratoga Street a few blocks from North Charles, a woman with immaculate makeup wearing a pillbox hat and a very 1950s-looking yellow-and-black checked dress walked by me.
    “Odd,” I thought. Then I saw a man in a dress shirt and bowler hat and [...]

  • Film industry to cameo in Maryland

    Renee Zellweger will star as a glamorous divorcee in search of a wealthy husband in “My One and Only,” which starts shooting next month - in Maryland. The Baltimore area, to be exact.
    Producer Aaron Ryder credited a state film-production incentive program for luring the movie to the Old Line State (Who knew? They work!).
    The period [...]