Technique and story don’t quite mesh in the Tom Hanks movie ‘Here’
What if you spent eternity in one living room? That’s the premise of Here, a new drama starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright as a married couple whose lives unfold in that living room over the course of many decades. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film…
Oh the horror! A director-critic tells us her favorite scary flicks of 2024
NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with horror movie director and critic Rebekah McKendry about her favorite scary movies of 2024.
In ‘A Real Pain,’ Jewish cousins tour Poland, cracking jokes and confronting the past
In this almost perfect little film, Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin play cousins who reconnect in Poland to honor the memory of their grandmother, a Holocaust survivor.
There can only be one pope in the delightfully preposterous ‘Conclave’
The new movie Conclave is a fun and twisty political thriller. Ralph Fiennes plays a cardinal tasked to managing the secretive process in which the pope is replaced. The film offers plenty of scandals, surprises, and dark horses, along with some strong…
Teri Garr, actor, comedian and multiple sclerosis ambassador, dies at 79
Garr’s breakout role was as sexy Inga in Young Frankenstein. She earned an Oscar nomination for her role in the 1982 film Tootsie, and played Phoebe’s mom on the sitcom Friends.
Onscreen cannibalism and our hunger for love
For the third and final installment of our Trilogy of Terror series, host Brittany Luse turns her attention to the ultimate taboo: cannibalism. Cannibalism stories have gotten big recently: it’s in The Last of Us, Society of the Snow and Yellowjackets….
1931 film Drácula gets its first film score, just in time for Halloween
The 1931 Spanish-language Drácula will get its first film score. It was among the early “talkies,” when filmmakers hadn’t quite yet figured out how to incorporate music into their craft.
What giving “it all up willingly” means to singer-songwriter, Laura Marling
Musician Laura Marling is out with a new album called, Patterns in Repeat.
Little-known women’s tackle football league remembered in The Herricanes
NPR’s Juana Summers talks with Olivia Kuan about her documentary, The Herricanes, about her mom’s professional football career and the National Women’s Football League.
Papal politics take an unholy turn in the clever thriller ‘Conclave’
When the pope dies, backbiting, infighting and ruthless smear campaigning taint the effort to find his successor. Ralph Fiennes stars in a film perfectly timed for this nail-biting election season.
‘Venom: The Last Dance’ goos out with a bang
In Venom: The Last Dance, Tom Hardy returns for a third time as a sad-sack loser with an alien symbiotic life-form bonded to him. This time out, it’s a buddy comedy and road movie, as the two are hunted by another race of aliens. And along the way, the…
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