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.

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.

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.

Inspiration can come from anywhere. One Boston-based musician summoned it with an app. Eph See wrote the song "Malachi the Uber Driver" after a late-night ride home.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all the people serving on a national vaccine advisory board. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Edwin Asturias, one of the doctors who was sacked.

Remakes are as old as cinema itself. Why do they get so much love ... and hate?