In this wickedly funny dark comedy, Emma Stone stars as a high-powered CEO who gets kidnapped by a low-ranking employee, played by Jesse Plemons, who believes she's an alien from outer space.
In a New Yorker article co-published with ProPublica, reporter Andy Kroll describes Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, as a "shadow president" with oversized influence.
DaCosta's latest film, Hedda, is personal, a project she wrote years ago and couldn't shake. In it, she reimagines Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play, Hedda Gabler, recasting the main character as a queer, mixed-race Black woman and transporting the action to a 1950s English manor.
Oh took the fast track to jazz prominence, emerging on the scene in the 2000s and becoming the bass player in bands led by Pat Metheny and Vijay Iyer. Her new album is a look back at her early work.
Apatow began collecting autographs and memorabilia when he was 10 — and he never stopped. He shares decades of photographs, letters, scripts and journals in a new memoir.
The Netflix drama series stars Keri Russell as a career American diplomat. The new season is full of unexpected developments — including a cliffhanger that our critic never saw coming.
In his new memoir, The Uncool, Crowe reflects on his adventures and misadventures as a teenage music journalist. He also writes about what life was like in his family, and how he convinced his parents to allow him to go on the road before he'd even graduated high school.
Known as a "founding mother" of NPR, Stamberg was the first woman to anchor a national news program in the U.S. She died Oct. 16. Originally broadcast in 1982, 1993 and 2021.
Del Toro's film credits include Pan's Labyrinth, Nightmare Alley and The Shape of Water, which won four Oscars, including best picture and best director. Now, with Frankenstein, he reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 classic, telling the final part of the story from the creature's point of view.
How are changing tariffs, the AI boom, immigration policies and uncertainty in employment and the stock market impacting the economy? Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor in chief of The Economist, explains.
A five-hour study of Martin Scorsese on Apple TV+ describes itself as a "film portrait." In fact, with its insightful interviews and film clips, Mr. Scorsese is more a patiently created masterpiece.
Yousafzai chronicled her childhood in the 2013 memoir, I Am Malala. In the new memoir, Finding My Way, she writes about her life at Oxford and beyond. It's the story of a college student who, like many others before her, tries marijuana, fails exams and falls in love for the first time. But it also reveals Yousafzai's efforts to deal with the trauma of the attack she had survived years earlier.
Burns' PBS documentary includes the perspectives of women, Native Americans, and enslaved and free Black people — all of whom were initially excluded from the declaration "all men are created equal."
Critic Lloyd Schwartz tells a story about Lezhneva, a Russian singer he "discovered" a few months ago — without realizing he already owned a 2015 recording of her rendition of Handel's early oratorio.
Alysia Abbott was raised by a single father at the dawn of the gay liberation era. Sofia Coppola recently adapted Abbott's memoir, Fairyland, to film. Originally broadcast in 2013.
Ethan Hawke stars as lyricist Lorenz Hart on the night his former writing partner, Richard Rodgers, debuts his hit musical Oklahoma!. Blue Moon offers a canny take on professional jealousy.
Julian's new book, We Survived the Night, is part memoir, part indigenous history and part "coyote stories. For Julian, telling his story in the memoir and film is part of a broader mission: "As a Native person who's living in the wake of a cultural genocide that nearly wiped our way of life ... off the face of this Earth, how you choose to live your life becomes a somewhat existential question," he says.
