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Ten years after their last new music release, Motion City Soundtrack is still as anxious as ever, but for different reasons. -
NPR's Megan Lim and Ryan Benk, two action sequence aficionados, discuss the elements of a great cinematic fight scene.
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Heather O'Leary, professor of anthropology at St Petersburg's University of South Florida, sets the story of Florida's declining oyster population to music.
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Dylan O'Brien and James Sweeney craft a kind of chemistry that is equal parts funny and heart-wrenching. -
Macon Blair's take on 1984's gore-core classic is as much a movie about love of family as it is a violent shock comedy. -
In the real world, events happen in a linear order - but in the movies, they don't have to. A look at the Rashomon effect, and how films handle complicating the narrative.
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A less-than-easy quest for a place to live after the housing crisis implodes. NPR's Adrian Ma talks with Emily Hunt Kivel about her surreal and funny debut novel, "Dwelling."
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Logan Lerman and Molly Gordon say the line between love and horror is a thin one. -
NPR's Andrew Limbong leads a conversation about what constitutes a great premise for a movie - and why a good one sticks with you, even if the film doesn't.
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Author and podcaster Nora Princiotti tells NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about her new book, "Hit Girls," and the pop stars of the turn of the millennium.
