Movies

Lily Gladstone, left, plays Mollie Kyle in Killers of the Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese, right.

'You talkin' to me?' How Scorsese's 'Killers of the Flower Moon' gets in your head

5:00am October 30, 2023

by Aisha Harris

In his elder years, Martin Scorsese seems to be questioning his complicity as a filmmaker. He's not renouncing his prior artistic choices but he's cognizant of how the world around him has shifted.

When women become the antagonists in horror films

5:52pm October 29, 2023

by Brianna Scott

Women have long been part of the horror genre — but, usually, they end up being the victims. What happens when the script is flipped and women become the antagonists in horror?

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Matthew Perry died on Saturday at age 54 at his Los Angeles home, multiple outlets report. The actor is pictured in 2009 at the L.A. premiere of The Invention of Lying.

'Friends' star Matthew Perry dies at age 54, reports say

11:42pm October 28, 2023

by Emma Bowman

Perry, who won an Emmy nod and enormous fame for his starring role as Chandler Bing in the hit sitcom, was found dead at his Los Angeles home, multiple outlets reported.

'The Nightmare Before Christmas' turns 30

5:18pm October 28, 2023

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Todd Lookinland, the set builder for The Nightmare Before Christmas, about the film's enduring legacy as a Halloween classic.

Dominic Sessa stars as Angus Tully and Paul Giamatti is Paul Hunham in Alexander Payne's The Holdovers.

Arts

Alexander Payne keeps real emotion at bay in the coyly comic 'Holdovers'

1:47pm October 27, 2023

by Justin Chang

Paul Giamatti plays a boarding school teacher charged with watching over the students who have no where to go during winter break in a throwback film that doesn't quite live up to its potential.

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Paul Giamatti is a prep-school teacher stuck supervising students in 'The Holdovers'

5:55pm October 26, 2023

by Bob Mondello

Paul Giamatti plays a 1970s prep-school teacher reluctantly supervising students with nowhere to go for the Christmas holidays in Alexander Payne's dramedy, The Holdovers.

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How Osage people stepped in to be sure 'Killers of the Flower Moon' got things right

7:25pm October 25, 2023

by Allison Herrera

The new Martin Scorsese film Killers of the Flower Moon doesn't shy away from the harsh realities of the Osage murders it depicts. But with input from the community, it also celebrates Osage culture.

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More than half of the 1,500 young people aged 10 to 24 who participated in UCLA's Center for Storytellers and Scholars' "Teens and Screens" survey said they want to see more content focused on friendships.

Arts

Looking for 'nomance': Study finds teens want less sex in their TV and movies

5:39pm October 25, 2023

by Chloe Veltman

A University of California Los Angeles survey study shows that Generation Z is much more interested in seeing stories about platonic relationships than those featuring sex and romance.

Werner Herzog describes his dramatic narration in films as a "stylized voice." At home with his wife, he says, "I am a mild-mannered, fluffy husband."

Books
Arts

Werner Herzog says it's not good to circle 'your own navel' but writes a memoir anyway

3:21pm October 25, 2023

by Terry Gross

Herzog reflects on the curiosity that's fueled his career in the new memoir, Every Man for Himself and God Against All. Just don't expect a deep confessional: "I never liked too deep introspection."

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Richard Roundtree pictured in August 1972.

Arts

Richard Roundtree, star of 'Shaft,' dies at 81

12:14pm October 25, 2023

by Neda Ulaby

Private eye John Shaft was a new kind of figure in film: unapologetically Black with swagger. He clapped back at white cops, he busted mobsters, and helped create the entire genre of Blaxploitation.

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