Linda Holmes

1 week ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Linda Holmes

One way to think about Stephen King is that he writes two kinds of stories: colds and warms. The colds are the unrelenting horrors, bloody and brutal, like The Shining, It, Carrie, Cujo, or The Stand. The warms are the stories of connection and hope, most famously The Body and Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, which were adapted into the films Stand By Me and (obviously) The Shawshank Redemption.

3 weeks ago | kpbs.org | Linda Holmes

The new film Mountainhead, written and directed by Succession creator Jesse Armstrong,is about the super-rich, so people may expect something Succession-ish: a tragedy studded with dark humor. Instead, in the tradition of Armstrong's work on the British series The Thick of It and the film In the Loop, Mountainhead is a comedy — a bleak, brutal comedy, but a comedy nonetheless.

1 month ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Linda Holmes

Many of the fears that horror movies exploit are buried deep, because they are fears of things that probably won't happen. You're statistically unlikely to die in a home invasion, or at the hands of a killer in a mask, or because you angered a homicidal doll, or because you unleashed an ancient curse. The Final Destination franchise, including the new hit Final Destination Bloodlines, is a little different.

1 month ago | npr.org | Glen Weldon |Linda Holmes |Aisha Harris |Stephen Thompson |Mike Katzif |Liz Metzger | +1 more

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1 month ago | npr.org | Linda Holmes |Walter Chaw |Reanna Cruz |Liz Metzger |Hafsa Fathima |Mike Katzif | +1 more

'Final Destination Bloodlines' proves that you still can't beat death Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1251782090/1269325046" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Kaitlyn Santa Juana in Final Destination Bloodlines. Eric Milner/Warner Bros. Pictures hide caption toggle caption Eric Milner/Warner Bros. Pictures Kaitlyn Santa Juana in Final Destination Bloodlines.