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The entertainment industry is brimming with interesting people who are responsible for your favorite movies, TV shows, and more. Join Vox’s critic-at-large Todd VanDerWerff every Thursday as...
Few actors have had as surprising a past few years as Mahershala Ali. Known for his parts on TV shows like The 4400 and House of Cards and i...
Michael Schur is one of the most adept minds in TV comedy. From his early days producing the Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon-era Weekend Update on...
If you've talked to Todd at all, you know how much he enjoys Christmas music. And, sure, he enjoys the stuff that gets overplayed year after...
The Chris Gethard Show might have been Todd’s favorite talk show of the decade, a weird, tossed-off calamity that emerged every week like an...
This episode originally ran in November of 2017. It’s almost Thanksgiving, which means home chefs all around the United States (Todd among t...
Karina Longworth’s Hollywood history podcast, You Must Remember This, is one of the most essential shows out there for movie fans. Each week...
Diablo Cody's career took off into the stratosphere when her very first produced script — 2007's quirky comedy Juno — led to a massive box o...
Imagine you're a time traveler whose time machine has functioned somewhere in Earth's past — after humans have evolved but before they've, s...
With Halloween right around the corner, we felt it's as timely as ever to revisit this episode from earlier this year. Sometimes, the scarie...
Yeardley Smith is one of the most famous women on Earth — though you might not know it if you just bumped into her somewhere, at least until...
Few TV shows are better than AMC's Better Call Saul. But if you told that to someone in 2015, when the show debuted, they might look at you...
The circus! At one time, it was one of the country’s most reliable forms of mass entertainment, crisscrossing American backroads to perform...
This episode is a rebroadcast of an episode from 2017, but with BoJack Horseman's fifth season recently debuting, we thought it was a great...
Jon Batiste makes some of TV’s best music, night in and night out. As bandleader of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the multi-instrument...
We're focusing on TV scene stealers this week, as we head into a new fall season. These two performers take some of the best shows on TV and...
The Nielsen ratings might not have as much power as they once held, but they still can decide the fate of your favorite TV show. If nobody's...
Steve James is one of the best documentary filmmakers to ever have lived. His movies examine the fault lines that underlie American society,...
The new coming-of-age comedy Eighth Grade is one of the surprise success stories of the summer, turning a tiny story of a 13-year-old girl’s...
The new movie BlacKkKlansman is careful to let you know very early on that, yes, its story is a true one, with a few embellishments for film...
There’s a reason TV critics and reporters call FX Networks president and CEO John Landgraf the “mayor of television” — and it’s not just bec...
Adora Crellin is a difficult woman to love. The monstrously suffocating mother of Camille, the protagonist of HBO's terrific murder mystery...
The riotously funny, incredibly inventive new movie Sorry to Bother You has become one of the summer’s most acclaimed films, as well as an u...
Neko Case’s nearly 20-year career has been marked by some of the best songs of that time frame, chronicles of a country and world that often...
Believe it or not, the summer entertainment season is half over. Fall TV will be firing up in just a few short weeks, and the summer movies...
Call the APM Reports production In the Dark a “true crime" podcast, and everybody involved in it will bristle, just a bit. Yes, it starts fr...
Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Gosford Park. Moonrise Kingdom. The original cast of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. These might seem...
Hari Kondabolu identified a problem. His self-hosted, self-produced 2017 documentary, The Problem With Apu, which aired on TruTV, discusses...
Does Aisha Tyler sleep? That’s a question you might reasonably ask after looking at her IMDb page for a moment or two. She’s a regular on tw...
Another TV season is over. You might not have noticed its end, thanks to the way TV never goes away any more, but technically, the TV season...
If you've listened to this show ever, or read anything Todd has ever written, then you know The Americans is one of his favorite shows of th...
Sometimes, the scariest thing is what you don’t see onscreen. It’s a lesson taken to heart by the folks behind two of the best horror projec...
Writer Nell Scovell has worked for some of the best, most popular TV shows of the past 30 years. She wrote for David Letterman. She wrote fo...
“This shit should not be cheesy,” Sera Gamble says. She’s talking about the visual effects and production design on the terrific Syfy fantas...
This week on I Think You’re Interesting, we’re trying something different, by dissecting two of the biggest pop culture stories of the sprin...
Even if you haven’t seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick’s mind-melting 1968 science fiction epic, you probably know at least somethi...
Designing Women, Frasier, 24, Fargo, Legion, some of the best TV shows of the past 30-plus years have one terrific actress in common: Jean S...
One of the most sympathetic, compelling portraits of motherhood on television centers on a performance by a man. On FX's Baskets, which rece...
Lady Bird was one of the surprise hits of 2017, with its bittersweet, deeply funny depiction of teen girl adolescence. And that got Todd to...
Few TV heavyweights have done as much to tell thoughtful, moving stories about teenagers as Jason Katims. While he was a young playwright, K...
How do you write a joke for the president of the United States? How do you come up with something that will seem perfectly cutting but not t...
If you don't hear the words "Bill Nye" and automatically fill in, mentally, "the Science Guy" (ideally with the exact right tune and rhythm...
Comedy Central’s Corporate is a deep, dark dive into American corporate life that is one of the most promising new comedies to debut in year...
Todd loves the Oscars, so this week's episode features not just one but two Oscar nominees from this year's crop. First, Todd talks with Vox...
If you've seen Marvel's new movie Black Panther, you know that one of the best things about it is its use of costumes and sets not just to c...
Though 20 percent of the American population has some form of disability, just 2 percent of working actors represent that population on scre...
Few fantasy series of the past 10 years have had the reach of Lev Grossman's Magicians trilogy, beginning with The Magicians in 2009, contin...
"I have people that are not Latino arguing with me about what we’re like," Justina Machado says about two-thirds of the way through her chat...
Blue Planet II is one of the most stunning visual achievements of the year. The new BBC America nature documentary takes viewers deep beneat...
Awards season is once again upon us. We’ll soon know which films and performances have been nominated for the Oscars, and the Golden Globes...
Phil Rosenthal is one of Todd’s favorite people within the TV industry to talk to, because he loves making television — whether he’s writing...