Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Jackass Forever, StraightioLab podcast, and True Blood.
Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi and adapted from a 2014 short story by Haruki Murakami, the film dramatizes some of the celebrated author's trademark themes: loss, guilt, the interplay of art and life.
French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children) returns with a gorgeous, hilarious and slyly warm-hearted sci-fi satire about a machine uprising in a suburb of the future.
An agoraphobic tech worker stumbles on evidence of a possible murder in Steven Soderbergh's new film. Zoë Kravitz stars in this gripping story of technology, surveillance and isolation.
Method acting is more than mining personal experiences to play a character — or physically transforming for a role. Author Isaac Butler traces the history of the technique in The Method.
Fears of an #Oscarssowhite redux go largely unfounded in this year's acting nominations, and the actress categories provided some real surprises. The battle for best picture will be fascinating.
Jane Campion's and Denis Villeneuve's films got the highest amount of nominations, 12 and 10 each. Drive My Car, from Japan, got nominated for both Best Picture and Best International Feature.
NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Christine Turner, the filmmaker behind the short documentary, Lynching Postcards: 'Token of A Great Day,' about her film and its present-day resonance.
Octavia Butler's 1979 novel Kindred is being made into a TV series. So we asked authors and critics what other not-yet-filmed books by Black authors they'd most like to see adapted for screen.
Greenwood says writing the music for The Power of the Dog allowed him to experiment by mixing a banjo and a string quartet. He also recently scored Spencer and Licorice Pizza.
Scott Simon speaks to Shawn Harrington, who appeared in the 1994 basketball documentary "Hoop Dreams." He began teaching in Chicago this week after being the victim of a drive-by-shooting in 2014.
While promoting her new movie God's Country, Newton talked about wanting to "apologize every day to darker-skinned actresses" for being chosen for roles.
In Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier's film, Julie (Renate Reinsve) is a young woman who can't decide who she is. As she finds out, she makes mistakes that inspire an ache of rueful recognition.