The Difference Between Truth and Honesty: Director Richard Linklater on ‘Last Flag Flying’
"Little lies. It's social lubrication," says Linklater, "verbal alcohol, so that we can all kind of get along."
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Family of the Year: Family of the Year
Breezy folk-pop that's fun to listen to but could use more emotional depth.
Still Life: The Portrait of Time in ‘Boyhood’
Boyhood sets itself the daunting task of reflecting the breadth of a human adolescence, but it instead reveals that it is in life's minutia that we find the most meaning.
PopTalk: The 2015 Academy Award Nominations
PopTalk is a new podcast on PopMatters that casts its gaze on exciting developments in culture and the arts. In this first installment, we examine the 2015 Oscar nominees, and the broken rules of the institution that is the Academy.
‘Boyhood’ and the Transcendence of the Everyday
Boyhood returns to the view that originated with Italian Neorealism: documenting everyday life is the biggest spectacle one could capture on film.
Short Ends and Leader’s Best Movies of 2014
From brazen biopics to murky examinations of marriage, Short Ends and Leader's picks for 2014's best flicks are a compelling bunch.