Pop Culture Happy Hour: Fall Movie And TV Preview
Bob Mondello joins us for a look at the fall films from the Toronto International Film Festival, and we jump into our annual fall television pool.
Movies
In 'Under The Shadow,' The Horror Is Housebound
Iranian-born director Babak Anvari's tale of motherhood and madness one-ups 2014's thematically similar The Babadook by bringing a larger sociopolitical context to the creepy goings-on.
With 'The Girl On The Train,' A Best-Selling Novel Jumps The Track
In adapting Paula Hawkins' hugely popular novel, filmmakers never manage to make its twisty story register as anything more than an exercise in convoluted plot machinations.
Poignant Pangs In The Pyrenees: 2 Boys Come Of Age In 'Being 17'
Director André Téchiné returns to a subject he famously explored in 1994's Wild Reeds: sexual awakening between teenage boys. This time, a stripped-down approach imbues his film with raw emotion.
High School Sweethearts Reconnect, And Reopen Old Wounds, In 'Blue Jay'
Sarah Paulson brings old-fashioned movie star charisma to this intimate two-character film that comes alive when the camera captures the emotions that flicker across her face from scene to scene.
'Denial' Recounts Professor's Legal Battle With Holocaust Denier
Historian Deborah Lipstadt was the defendant in a British libel lawsuit brought by Holocaust denier David Irving. The new film Denial tells the story of that trial and the debate it ignited.
A Photographer Gets Old — Over And Over — In 'The Many Sad Fates'
Photographer Phillip Toledano lost both his parents, an aunt and an uncle and began to wonder — what other dark turns did life have in store? He explores the possibilities in a new short film.
Costume Designer Colleen Atwood Took Unlikely Path To Hollywood Royalty
Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood knows tough times. A single mom at 17 who once worked at a French fry factory to make ends meet is Hollywood royalty today. A favorite of director Tim Burton, Atwood is now costume designer for his adaptation of the darkly comic, Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children and the upcoming Harry Potter prequel, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
'Deepwater Horizon' Honors The Sacrifice Without Sacrificing The Action
Deepwater Horizon is the tense and terse story of the Gulf oil rig explosion that became the biggest man-made ecological disaster in history.
'American Honey' Trains Its Lens On Traveling Magazine Crews
Andrea Arnold's new movie about a teenage girl who takes up with an unusual group of salespeople won a the Jury Prize at Cannes this year. Critic David Edelstein calls it a "wonderful" film.