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Working in the heat on D.O.A. and Body Heat.
A 2020 New York Times interview with novelist Don DeLillo vs. a 1996 Index Magazine interview with actor Udo Kier.
M. NourbeSe Philip’s elegy for lost voices.
The “resurgence” of malls and the drawbacks.
And the years it's endured.
Scenes from Flushing, Queens scenes.
After three decades of creative stops and starts, Lawrence Kasdan directed a Netflix documentary about his friend, Martin Short. It’s both a fascinating career move and a sign that it’s over.
The pursuit of AI will kill the planet quicker than any arms race.
Bluebeard isn't Kurt Vonnegut's best novel, but it's an example of his impressive range as a writer.
Voters get a break from climate change apocalyptic declarations. What year is it (#627)?
Speed remains one of the most exhilarating American films ever made.
Useful ambivalence in language.
Hoked-up sequel punishes linear thought.
Their blame game politics has run out of gas.
St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland is for weirdos wrestling with the most perplexing questions.
A personality cult is morally rudderless, like machines.
American gangster Mickey Cohen passed away in his sleep in 1976 after a life of organized crime.
The future has less room for humans.
Naw, it was more American "linguistic constructivism."
All work and no play.
My small-town racist version of The Devil Wears Prada.
China’s spying on U.S. tech firms.
It's not weighed down with self-destructive progressive thinking.
The musician and the actor talk about The Brady Bunch and its enduring resonance in American pop culture.
The band play a song inspired by the film Union City in Glasgow.
Joe Rogan and Rick Rubin talk about Chris Rock's recent success and change in attitude since the 2022 Oscars.
Accidents and mistakes caught on recordings by The Beatles, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, and more.
The filmmaker talks about The Last Boy Scout and other movies that came out the year before Reservoir Dogs came out.
The artist performs the theme song from Against All Odds at Wembley Stadium on July 13, 1985.
The director reads from his recently reissued early screenplays and talks with Michael Schulman about his life's work.
Billy Corgan doesn't understand why Suede has been on more magazine covers in England than The Smashing Pumpkins in this unearthed interview from the fall of 1993.
The actress talks about her experience working on the Woody Allen film in this recent interview from the 2026 TCM Classic Film Festival.
The magnificent theme song from Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia.
An extended interview with the filmmaker on his upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey.