Thriller

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National

A young man's homecoming sets off erotic shockwaves in this unsettling French thriller

5:00am March 28, 2025

Misericordia is one of the most surprising films our critic's seen this year. It focuses on a man who returns to his small village for a funeral — only to become enmeshed in countless entanglements.

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Rod Temperton at an event in Italy in 2004. The songwriter penned several megahits of the 1970s and '80s, most notably for Michael Jackson.

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Music & Culture

'Thriller' Songwriter Rod Temperton Dies At 66

9:52am October 06, 2016

by Elizabeth Blair

Temperton wrote some of the most iconic pop songs of the 1970s and '80s, including Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and "Rock With You."

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In Gone Girl, Ben Affleck stars as a husband under scrutiny following his wife's disappearance.

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Affleck: 'Gone Girl' Was Freeing, And 'Batman' Will Be No 'Daredevil'

9:16pm October 04, 2014

by NPR Staff

Ben Affleck says playing a character shrouded in suspicion was liberating, because "likability was sort of thrown out of the window." He also looks back on where his career began: Voyage of the Mimi.

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