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…
The real nightmare in Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ isn’t what you expect
In Anora, Mikey Madison plays a sex worker who dances at a strip club and meets — and marries — the son of a Russian oligarch. Filmmaker Sean Baker seems to anticipate and avoid conventions about on-screen violence.
Incarcerated men at Sing Sing will judge New York’s prison film festival
There’s a film festival coming up at Sing Sing, the maximum security prison in New York. It’ll screen films about criminal justice. Do these movies get the prison experience right?
Anna Kendrick’s ‘Woman of the Hour’ speaks volumes about violence
Netflix’s Woman Of The Hour is not your conventional serial killer movie. It’s based on the true story of a serial killer who appeared on The Dating Game in the 1970s. But it’s also about the women who became — or almost became — his victims. Directed by and starring Anna Kendrick, it’s a tense, thoughtful film that has much to say about the systems that make life easier for dangerous and otherwise crummy men.
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We watch classic movies for the first time
We’ve all been there. A major movie is mentioned, you shrug, sheepishly, and someone says, “I can’t believe you’ve never seen that!” Today, we make a dent in our own lists of classic films we somehow had not yet gotten to, including Erin Brockovich, Fl…
‘Anora’ is the wild rom-dramedy we didn’t know we wanted
The new movie Anora is a dark rom-dramedy about an enterprising sex worker (Mikey Madison) who links up with a very rich and very immature young man (Mark Eydelshteyn). Their transactional encounter turns into a quickie Vegas wedding. But her new in-la…
A sex worker marries the son of a Russian oligarch in the comically chaotic ‘Anora’
Anora is easily one of Sean Baker’s funniest works — and also one of the saddest. The film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and the director says it’s dedicated to sex workers “past, present and future.”
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