Last week, The Flash sped into theaters, to change the course of the DC Extended Universe.

This week, the Destinies Film Review League assembles live to discuss The Flash.

Is the Scarlet Speedster's solo cinematic debut "the greatest super-hero movie of all time," or just another DC disappointment?

What are the circumstances that trade out Ben Affleck's Batman for Michael Keaton's?

Can Ezra Miller successfully play Barry Allen at two different ages?

Will audiences pay to see a film about a character that just ended a nine season run on free television? And, what is the movie worth on the famous Destinies zero to nine dollars rating scale?

Find out on Friday, June 23rd, at 11:30 PM, when hosts Howard Margolin, Dave Campfield, Timothy Gillespie, and Justin Paul run in to review The Flash on Destinies-The Voice of Science Fiction.

THE SHYLOCK AND THE SHAKESPEAREANS is a darkly humorous retelling of The Merchant of Venice, written and directed by Edward Einhorn.

In ancient Venice, of sorts, a mob of white supremacists calling themselves the Shakespeareans has taken over public discourse. Jacob, a Jewish diamond merchant, finds himself entangled with Antonio, a member of the Shakespeareans. Jacob’s daughter Jessica has fallen in love with the son of Asian immigrants. And in Belmont, a young heiress named Portia subjects her suitors to a strange, nonsensical game. When Antonio’s business encounters hardship, he reneges on a debt with Jacob then spreads the rumor Jacob wants him dead. A trial in a kangaroo court follows.

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From Marc Greene:

Tune in on Friday morning, June 23, at 10:00 AM, for a special WUSB 46th Anniversary special 3-hour edition of Fermented Radio.

We are honored to have Kenny Gradney of Little Feat on the program. Kenny will tell us about joining the band right around the time of Dixie Chicken and what it's been like with Little Feat (and others) right on through to today. And just this week, Warner Bros. Records have reissued Sailin' Shoes and Dixie Chicken in amazing detail.

Fermented Radio airs each Friday only on WUSB, Stony Brook.

Release show for Headwinds, a new studio album of original songs.

Sunday, August 27th at 5 P.M. at The Long Island Museum, Rte.25A, Stony Brook

We’ve often referred to The Kennedys as the ‘musical heart and soul’ of WUSB’s The Sunday Street Series. They played our very first show in February, 2004 and have returned many times for Kennedy’s shows as well as being an integral part of our annual Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration.

DALÍLAND stars Ben Kingsley as the titular Salvador Dalí, one of the most world-renowned artists of the 20th century and focuses on the later years of the strange and fascinating marriage between Dalí and his wife, Gala (Barbara Sukowa), as their seemingly unshakable bond begins to stress and fracture.

Set in New York and Spain in 1974, the film is told through the eyes of James (Christopher Briney), a young assistant keen to make his name in the art world, who helps the eccentric and mercurial Dalí prepare for a big gallery show. Rupert Graves, Suki Waterhouse, Andreja Pejic and Ezra Miller also star.

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Airs June 8, 6-8 PM.

Tune in to Friday Night Free Form for a live panel discussion on Season 3 of Star Trek Picard, as the League of Extraordinary Star Trek Nerds meets to relive the best and worst parts of the season.

The panel starts at 9:00 PM and features Marybeth Ritkouski, Michael Rizzo, Paul Levinson, Colleen Bement, Roy Bjellquist, and Captain Phil.

This week, Destinies continues its spring movie coverage, and brings you new editions of its regular features.

Tune in Friday night, as the Destinies Audiobook Sampler salutes the release of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse with chapter 2 of Steve Bailing's novelization of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, read by Cary Hite.

In preparation for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, learn the origin of the Transformers, and the story of how they came to Earth in "The Battle for Cybertron," written by Scott Siegel, on the Destinies Radio Theater.

Patrick Thomas' "Dear Cthulhu" offers advice to a clown who is having trouble making a living when so many people are afraid of clowns. And, Christina M. Rau reads her poem "Thinking in Terms."

Friday, June 2nd, at 11:30 PM. Hosted by Howard Margolin, with Patrick Thomas and Christina M. Rau.

Steve Matteo is the author of “Act Naturally: The Beatles on Film,” as well as “Let It Be” published in 2004, part of the 33 1/3 series of books on individual albums. It was one of the featured books on the Abbey Road studios store website in 2020 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Let It Be album and film. He is also the author of Dylan, published in 1996. In addition, he contributed to The Beatles in Context, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. Publications he has written for include The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, Time Out New York, Rolling Stone, Spin, Interview, ELLE Magazine (US), and Salon.

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Airs Thursday, June 1, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

From Howard Margolin...

This week, Destinies takes you from the Stony Brook campus to a galaxy far, far away, to the Spider-Verse.

Tune in Friday night, and hear the conclusion of the Rachel Pollack Memorial Interview, recorded at I-Con 14, in which the former Doom Patrol writer talks about her artistic collaborators on the series.

In honor of the 40th anniversary of "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi", the Destinies Radio Theater presents "The Ewoks Join the Fight."

And, to prepare for next week's release of "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse", the Destinies Audiobook Sampler features the start of Miles Morales' adventures in chapter one of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, read by Cary Hite.

Friday, May 26th, at 11:30 PM.
Hosted by Howard Margolin.

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