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‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens

I've reached 30 movies from 1979. my top 10: 1. alien 2. apocalypse now 3. all that jazz 4. being there 5. the in-laws 6. quadrophenia 7. hardcore 8. kramer vs. kramer 9. manhattan 10. going in style

I did not contribute to this (most of my best travel was outside the US, outside the scope of this article) but I did suggest the Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, which made the list. www.npr.org/2025/12/18/n...

I reported a piece on the history of fake snow in the movies for Weekend Edition! www.npr.org/2025/12/14/n...

I've now reached 50 movies from 2012. my top 10: 1. moonrise kingdom 2. the master 3. lincoln 4. zero dark thirty 5. 21 jump street 6. magic mike 7. bernie 8. django unchained 9. cloud atlas 10. looper

Really loved Kleber Mendonca Filho's latest, THE SECRET AGENT, and we talked with Wagner Moura about it www.npr.org/2025/12/06/n...

I loved producing this interview with Tobias Jesso Jr., whose first album "Goon" soundtracked my college years. www.npr.org/2025/12/06/n...

i really, really liked this movie

how could you fire olivia nuzzi. her last name is literally newsy. i'm the only person who has ever said this

I went to Bilbao basically just to see Gehry's Guggenheim Museum there. I always snapped a photo of his Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago. And I loved seeing the Disney Concert Hall in LA and the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris. Goodbye Frank Gehry, you were one of my first architecture loves.

For anyone who remotely thought about being an architect, Frank Gehry was a god (I was lucky enough to study architecture for three years in high school, do internships, and study some in college). This is an immeasurable loss.

Steve Cropper — who played with Booker T. & the MG’s, the Blues Brothers, and Otis Redding — has died at the age of 84. Cropper was the Steve that John Belushi says ‘Play it, Steve’ to on ‘Soul Man.’

JUST IN: Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88

Everyone says that ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER takes place now, with the prologue being in 2009. Why can't the prologue be now and the movie set in like 2040?

Books We Love is back with a brand new batch of hand-picked titles. Mix and match tags like “Book Club Ideas” and “Eye-Opening Reads.” Find 380+ new 2025 reads, and stick around to browse more than 4,000 books from the last 13 years.

RIP Udo Kier. We interviewed him for his film SWAN SONG www.npr.org/2021/08/07/1...

Charlie Shackleton on ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT www.npr.org/2025/11/22/n...

PICTURES AT A REVOLUTION

Josh O'Connor is having a wonderful year and then his next two movies are by Steven Spielberg and Joel Coen

Geeta Gandbhir on THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR www.npr.org/2025/11/16/n...

Clint Bentley on TRAIN DREAMS www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...

that’s not the us capitol building @politico.com

@thenextpictureshow.bsky.social Royal Tenenbaums / Sentimental Value pairing pls

Armed and masked immigration agents sped down Northbrook street, grabbed man as schoolkids watched. Northbrook is a tony little suburb. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/04/a...

RIP Diane Ladd, who worked with Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Norman Jewison, Mike Nichols, Roger Corman, Roman Polanski, Bob Rafelson, Martha Coolidge, Mark Rydell, Stuart Rosenberg, Joseph Sargent, Jack Clayton, Bill Duke, Alexander Payne, Rob Reiner, Roger Donaldson, David O. Russell

Anthony Hopkins on his memoir www.npr.org/2025/11/01/n...

Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.

this was wonderful to watch www.npr.org/2025/10/29/g...

they would be friends

This interview with John Tesh about the Roundball Rock theme song returning to NBC is delightful www.npr.org/2025/10/25/n...

ah man rip to a king www.stereogum.com/2327865/reve...

i've reached 60 movies from 2013. top 10: 1. inside llewyn davis 2. the wolf of wall street 3. frances ha 4. nebraska 5. before midnight 6. gravity 7. 12 years a slave 8. the world's end 9. captain phillips 10. enough said

WEAPONS... good movie

Wonderful story about Don Was and Detroit's music www.npr.org/2025/10/19/n...

Jafar Panahi on IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT www.npr.org/2025/10/18/n...

What do I have on vinyl? 249. Currents - Tame Impala 235. Contra - Vampire Weekend 207. Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves 202. Set My Heart On Fire Immediately - Perfume Genius 200. Soft Sounds From Another Planet - Japanese Breakfast 172. 22, A Million - Bon Iver www.pastemagazine.com/music/best-a...

Diane Keaton worked with Francis Ford Coppola, Herbert Ross, Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Richard Brooks, Alan Parker, George Roy Hill, Gillian Armstrong, Gus Van Sant, Nancy Meyers, Lawrence Kasdan, Mark Rydell, Bruce Beresford, Charles Shyer, Leonard Nimoy, Rob Reiner, Joyce Chopra, Jerry Zaks

I have reached 70 movies from 2015. my top 10: 1. mad max: fury road 2. taxi 3. mistress america 4. tangerine 5. spotlight 6. mission: impossible - rogue nation 7. magic mike xxl 8. brooklyn 9. what we do in the shadows 10. spy

one battle after another is the movie of the year. shadow ticket is out now. nobel committee you know what to do

now that I have seen every 1999 best picture nominee, I have ranked them: 1. The Insider 2. The Sixth Sense 3. The Green Mile 4. American Beauty 5. The Cider House Rules Two good movies, three awful ones

i have reached 30 movies from 1993. my top 10: 1. dazed and confused 2. jurassic park 3. schindler’s list 4. the age of innocence 5. king of the hill 6. the fugitive 7. sleepless in seattle 8. the wedding banquet 9. the piano 10. naked

would love to live in europe but i cannot STAND the european covers of books. they are AWFUL!!!!!

having a crisis about how much i love ann arbor

SENTIMENTAL VALUE has entered the canon of movies whose trailer makes me cry immediately

EPILOGUE

what are the cool bars and cafes and things in Paris, France