'The Shrouds' introduces a new stage of grief: Watching your loved one decompose
David Cronenberg's thriller centers on an unusual technology that allows people to watch their loved ones decompose in real time. The Shrouds is both deeply morbid and disarmingly funny.
'Gone Girl': A Gripping Film That's More Fun Than The Book
Based on a screenplay by author Gillian Flynn, the movie is sensationally effective. It's made like a classic noir — evenly paced, with an elegance that in context is deeply perverse.
A Writer Moves To 'Bettyville' To Care For His Elderly Mom
In 2011, George Hodgman visited his mother Betty for her 91st birthday in Paris, Missouri. When he saw she needed care, he left Manhattan to live with her. But she still hasn't accepted that he's gay.
50 Years Of The Hollies
Not many bands can celebrate a silver anniversary, which is why Fresh Air music historian Ed Ward wishes more people made a bigger deal out of The Hollies.
Fresh Air Remembers Pioneering Documentary Filmmaker Albert Maysles
Maysles and his late brother David made the 1976 film Grey Gardens, a study of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' relatives who lived in squalor in their decaying mansion. He died last week at age of 88.
James McMurtry Is More Expressive Than Ever On 'Complicated Game'
Complicated Game demonstrates a new range of style and subject matter for McMurtry.
Mavericks' Singer Raul Malo Restlessly Explores Genres
In the band's latest album Mono, Malo demonstrates how he likes to make music that confounds the usual expectations of what a country hit-maker can do.
Nora Jane Struthers Is Wide Awake On New Album
Given the content of the songs, the title Wake seems, in part, to refer to an awakening Struthers has had about who she is, what she wants to do, and how she wants to sound.
'Now Is The Time' For Organist Chris Foreman
Foreman is one of a few Chicago jazz heroes who should be better known outside the city limits.
On 'Collective Portrait,' Eddie Henderson Is Still Taking Risks At 74
Eddie Henderson may never have quite gotten his due, but there's still time to correct that.
In The Northern Ireland Period Thriller '71,' No One Dies Well
The film is about an English private who is cut off from his unit in the middle of a riot in Belfast in 1971. It's a conventional and smashingly good chase melodrama, but it's also a tragedy.