Saoirse Ronan says her experience as a child actor continues to shape her work
Ronan credits her parents and the filmmakers she worked with as a child for keeping acting fun. She stars as a woman struggling with addiction in The Outrun and as a World War II mother in Blitz.
The hot mom rom-com phenomenon
It’s Election Day, but instead of focusing on politics, we decided to do something a little lighter for the occasion: we’re looking at this year’s hot mom rom-com boom. Host Brittany Luse is joined by New York Magazine features writer Rachel Handler to…
Al Pacino says he almost turned down ‘The Godfather Part II’
Pacino says the initial script for the Godfather sequel was so bad he nearly passed on the project — until it was rewritten. The Oscar-winning actor looks back on his life in the memoir Sonny Boy.
A mother and son are separated by the London ‘Blitz’ in this quietly radical film
In a film that has powerful moments of wonderment, humor and joy, Saoirse Ronan plays a London factory worker trying to protect her young son as German bombs fall across the city.
Remembering actor Teri Garr, of ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie’ fame
Garr, who died Oct. 29, started out as a dancer in Elvis films, and was later nominated for an Oscar for Tootsie. David Bianculli offers an appreciation, and we listen back to a 2005 interview.
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….
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