AISHA HARRIS, HOST: The 2021 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival is taking place in your local living room. Beginning this Thursday, a special lineup of curated programming will be airing on TCM and streaming on HBO Max. There will be new interviews with legendary movie stars, guest host introductions and, of course, the movies themselves. I m Aisha Harris. And today we ve got your guide to the 2021 TCM Film Festival on POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR from NPR, so don t go away.
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HARRIS: Welcome back. Joining us from her home in Denver is Monica Castillo, who is an arts and culture reporter with Colorado Public Radio. Welcome back, Monica.
Dana Gould Now Discusses New PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE in Our Exclusive Interview
The Simpsons certainly contributed to many episodes of
Treehouse of Horror over the years. But it wasn’t until recently that his passion for the genre started coming through in his work. Now, after penning the inventive season 2 finale of
Creepshow and last Halloween’s
Toys of Terror, Gould is also writing and researching his next foray into the genre about a real-life séance.
In our below interview, however, we’re focused on the adaptation of Ed Wood’s
Plan 9 From Outer Space that he helped craft with writing partner Janet Varney. Presented by SF Sketchfest and featured at this weekend’s virtual TCM Film Fest. Gould and a star-studded cast of comedians will perform a live script read this Friday on TCM and HBO Max. Narrated by SNL icon Laraine Newman, the rest of the lineup includes Maria Bamford and Bobcat Goldthwait. Plus Oscar Nuñez, Bob Odenkirk, David Koechner, Janet Varney, J
Old, new, major, minorâhereâs our city, and sometimes our state, on the screen.
Photo collage: Shutterstock by Everett Collection and Featureflash Photo Agency, Seattle Met composite.
A pan across lake union. Then we plunge into a tugboat s engine room, where we meet the married, middle-aged couple who own it. They ll spend the next hour and a half engaged in bouts of slapstick bickering. Thatâs how Seattle first hit cinema screens, in 1933, in
Tugboat Annie. It s not exactly a must-see, but since then, the city and the state around it have been portrayed in hundreds of movies (many shot in Vancouver, BC). Below are brief reviews of films that are significantly set here, divided alphabetically into three categories: Definitely Watch, Worth a Watch, and Skip. Weâll keep adding as we keep watching.
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, spring is finally hitting its stride. April’s showers are starting to give way to warmer, sunnier weather; the days are getting longer, and everyone’s excited to spend more time outside!
Well, most people, anyway. I don’t like to go outside because when I was nine years old, I watched
Jaws and have been terrified of sharks and by extension, the natural world ever since. Never mind the fact that I lived in the decidedly freshwater state of Michigan until my mid-twenties and didn’t even see the ocean until moving to North Carolina.