Movies

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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Books
Arts

'Charlie Chaplin vs. America' explores the accusations that sent a star into exile

1:38pm October 24, 2023

by Terry Gross

Author Scott Eyman explains how Chaplin was smeared in the press, scandalized for his affairs with young women, condemned for his alleged communist ties and banned from returning to the U.S.

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Bargaining talks are set to resume between striking Hollywood performers and studios

5:02am October 24, 2023

After a two-week pause, representatives for Hollywood studios and the performers' union return to negotiations Tuesday, to try to find a path to ending a strike that began in May.

Entertainment industry A-listers sign a letter to Biden urging a cease-fire in Gaza

3:47pm October 21, 2023

by Chloe Veltman

Jon Stewart, America Ferrera, Cate Blanchett and Michael Stipe are among the more than 60 music and film industry stars to put their names to the letter.

Arts

'Killers of the Flower Moon' is helping some Osage citizens to grapple with their past

8:32am October 21, 2023

by Allison Herrera

Osage citizens in Oklahoma see the release of "Killers of the Flower Moon" as a way to embrace trauma in their past. Dozens of tribal members were murdered in the 1920s for their oil-rich land.

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