Ryan Benk

As Halloween approaches slasher movies draw their biggest audiences as All Things Considered host Andrew Limbong talks with NPR's Brianna Scott and Ryan Benk about what keeps the genre alive and why it still fascinates audiences.

Decades of metamorphosis and drag performer Joey Arias is far from his final form.

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.

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.

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.

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."

Logan Lerman and Molly Gordon say the line between love and horror is a thin one.