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

6:09pm November 01, 2023

by Chloe Veltman

A new study about young Americans' entertainment consumption habits suggests that Gen Z is far more interested in seeing screen stories of platonic relationships than those featuring sex and romance.

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Scary movies had another big year. A horror scholar shares her favorites

4:07pm October 31, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with horror scholar and filmmaker Rebekah McKendry about her favorite horror movies of the year and the ideas that tie them together.

Priests, played by Max von Sydow and Jason Miller, try to help a possessed child in The Exorcist, from 1973.

A priest explains what 'The Exorcist' tells us about evil

11:50am October 31, 2023

by Neda Ulaby

After half a century, The Exorcist is still considered one of the scariest movies ever made. But one priest says it's a movie deeply concerned with faith, and responding to evil.

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A new book tells the life story of screen-and-song legend Lena Horne

5:11am October 31, 2023

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Donald Bogle about his book Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed. She was a pioneering star of stage and screen in the 1940s, at a time when Hollywood was loathe to show either.

Horror trailers can be scary for kids — and avoiding them is hard, especially around Halloween.

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Scream time: Has your kid been frightened by a horror movie trailer?

4:29pm October 30, 2023

by Elizabeth Blair

Ads for horror movies and TV shows seem to be everywhere around Halloween — including during shows that kids might be watching. Avoiding them is a challenge.

Remembering 'Friends' star Matthew Perry who has died at age 54

5:10am October 30, 2023

by Andrew Limbong

Colleagues and friends remember actor Matthew Perry. The Friends star died Saturday after an apparent drowning at his Los Angeles home. The medical examiner has not yet confirmed the cause of death.

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.