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Evergreen articles about declining literacy are still eye-popping. What year is it (#558)?
Seven, Mildred Pierce, and Heavy Metal at the Charles Theatre.
The complexities of staying in the headlines.
Disclaimer is proof that television is a medium best suited for showrunners, not auteurist directors.
How I became Mr. Pitt’s emotional support rooster.
Donald Trump's cinematic notion to reopen San Francisco's Alcatraz.
Bad Monkey isn't groundbreaking, but it's still a refreshing and self-aware series.
Nonnas and Summer of 69, two somewhat slight movies out this week.
The presidential naming power, if any, has extreme limits.
Turning my back on the church and state, I was born to serve no god or human.
A true account of the intellectual life.
Marginalized communities are especially hurt by mental health funding cuts.
Children graduating is work for parents too.
Tracking realignments, from AI to space telescopes.
The political alternatives to Trump are also bad.
From abundance to ruins.
Apple TV+’s Dope Thief is a compelling low-level crime thriller that’s transformed into a generic family drama.
We have to talk about Gaza.
The actor talks about his brilliant career in this two hour interview recorded on December 11, 1997.
The director talks about his breakthrough film Trainspotting.
The late David Thomas on the show Transmission.
The filmmaker talks about Trey Parker and Matt Stone's 2004 marionette masterpiece.
The filmmaker and actor talk about their iconic collaboration on the Stephen King adaptation.
A live album of early versions of many of the songs that would end up on 2007's Person Pitch.
The author of Red Carpet talks about the history of Hollywood caving to pressure from China for voluntary censorship and more.
The filmmaker and playwright talks about his new film Henry Johnson and the sorry state of Hollywood today.
Fry talks to Crumb and his biographer about the cartoonist's life.
The author talks to Buckley for an hour in this episode aired on February 1, 1977.
Four and half hours of unedited tapes from the former Beatle's infamous interview with Rolling Stone.