Tag: humor

In the past year, there have been a lot of movies that feature older women falling in love with much younger men. There’s The Idea Of You, A Family Affair, Lonely Planet, and Babygirl, just to name a few. But why now? Today we’re bringing you an episode of the NPR podcast It’s Been A Minute. In this episode, host Brittany Luse sits down with New York Magazine features writer Rachel Handler to unpack what these films say about Hollywood’s changing attitudes towards older women and why the category of, quote-unquote, “women’s film” still feels behind the times. behind the times.

Swinton plays a woman dying of cancer in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door. “A life spent considering how we’re going to spend our end is not wasted time,” Swinton says.

What do you say to people when they ask you why you aren’t drinking? How do you get your friends to hang out in places other than bars? We tackle the social conundrums of sober socializing.

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Jimmy Carter loved watching movies and he’s credited with putting his home state of Georgia on the movie making list for Hollywood studios.

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is the latest film in the beloved stop-motion animation series. This time, clueless inventor Wallace and his long-suffering pooch Gromit are dealing with Wallace’s latest invention, a robotic garden gnome. But when an old enemy gets involved, they must face down an army of evil robots and expose the criminal mastermind behind it all.

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How should Black parents talk to their kids about the police? Gene gets into it with his friend Chenjerai Kumanyika, host of Empire City, a podcast about the history of the NYPD. Chenjerai’s show sprang out of his own attempts to talk with his young daughter about the police and what they do.

Five years ago progressive Democrats seemed to be on the rise. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had just ousted a moderate Democrat, and Senator Bernie Sanders looked like he could win the party’s nomination. Now, two members of the progressive group known as “The Squad” have lost their re-election bids.

This week, Brittany sits down with one of them, former congressional representative, Cori Bush of Missouri. They get into what the progressive politics are in 2025 and what the future holds for Democrats and identity politics.

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There is a lot of TV on deck in the new year – including multiple medical dramas, a violent Netflix drama about Utah settlers in the 1850s, plus, cop shows, Westerns and documentaries.

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Nicole Kidman plays a high-flying, married businesswoman who begins an affair with an intern half her age. It’s a lead performance more daring than the film itself.

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Brody won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of a Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor who seeks a fresh start in post-WWII America. “I just was in awe when I read the script,” he says.