Criterion Closet goes on tour to mark the company’s 40th year in business
Criterion restores and redistributes classic films – such as Citizen Kane and King Kong. The company filled a closet with its collection of restored movies, and it’s traveling to various cities.
‘I didn’t want it to end.’ Why director Todd Phillips came back with another ‘Joker’
After the 2019 Joker wrapped, Phillips knew he wanted to do more with Batman’s archnemesis. Joker: Folie à Deux is a musical sequel, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.
Demi Moore’s ‘The Substance’ will get under your skin
The Substance is a bloody, campy, fiercely feminist body horror film. Demi Moore plays a TV aerobics instructor desperate to stay in the spotlight. She learns of a mysterious drug she can inject that causes another, younger, entirely separate version of herself (Margaret Qualley) to splurt out of her back and assume her consciousness. They must switch back and forth or very bad bloody things will happen.
Director Coralie Fargeat on her new horror movie ‘The Substance’
Demi Moore stars in the film about an aging actress who takes a black market drug to create a younger version of herself.
The movie ‘Election’ 25 years on
As part of our series on movies that came out in 1999, NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with Vox culture writer Constance Grady about the impact of the film “Election.”
Gary Oldman talks Slow Horses and the art of flatulence
This week, Gary Oldman joins us to talk Slow Horses, the Emmy Awards, and the fine art of flatulence with Karen Chee, Brain Babylon, and Peter Grosz.
‘Transformers One’ is an animated origin story with a light touch
The Transformers franchise has been around for decades, and it’s brought us many toys, TV shows and movies. Now, in the new animated film Transformers One, the origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron finally gets told. With a voice cast that include…
The delightful ‘My Old Ass’ seeks wisdom from hindsight
What would you do if you met your future self, who’s a couple of decades older and maybe a little wiser? Would you freak out? In the delightful new movie My Old Ass, a teenager named Elliott (Maisy Stella) faces this very scenario. Her older self is played by Aubrey Plaza, and she’s got some advice to impart. But her younger self may or may not take it.
‘The Substance’ is imaginary, but feminine self-hatred is real in this body horror
In The Substance, Demi Moore plays an aerobics TV star who turns 50 and is promptly ousted from her gig in Hollywood. She and Margaret Qualley duke it out this excruciating body horror tale.
The movies, TV and music we’re excited about this fall
Fall is beginning, and it’s the perfect time to talk about all the great things we’re excited to watch and listen to between now and the end of the year. Today, we’re offering up a guide to spotlight some of the movies, TV, and music we are looking forward to this fall.
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In ‘My Old Ass,’ a teen is visited by her 39-year-old self during a mushroom trip
A teen meets her wisecracking, advice-dispensing 39-year-old self on a mushroom trip in Megan Park’s coming-of-age rom-com My Old Ass.
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