How is this one?

Yeah, this is, you know, kind of a comeback for Greg Araki.

This movie got a lot of attention out of Sundance.

It is basically a kind of famously Gen X filmmaker making a movie about...

This millennial, slightly problematic, or definitely very problematic millennial artist who starts off an affair with her Gen Z employee.

So it's covering a lot of ground.

It's a very funny movie.

more translation there who could kill a man of his ability i must know how it was done lend me your wisdom allison this is the latest from the japanese director kiyoshi kurosawa no relation to akira tell us more about him and this latest film

Alison Wilmore is film critic at Vulture and New York Magazine.

Oppenheimer made almost a billion dollars worldwide, two-thirds of that outside of the US market.

It won Oscars.

It really established that people will come out for a Nolan film because it's made by him.

People really believe in him as a filmmaker in a way that is true for almost no other, uh, director working today.

Alison Wilmore is film critic at Vulture and New York Magazine.

Oppenheimer made almost a billion dollars worldwide, two-thirds of that outside of the US market.

It won Oscars.

It really established that people will come out for a Nolan film because it's made by him.

People really believe in him as a filmmaker in a way that is true for almost no other, uh, director working today.

Yeah

... uh, enough to open in suburban California.

Um, so I, I think I thought of them as, uh, uh, the Oscars the way a lot of people do, which is like, "Yes, these are the best movies of the year," and I had never been like, "Says who?" You know? And then after a while, reading critics, which I re- read a lot, uh, watching Siskel and Ebert, which I loved, I finally actually, like, started thinking, [chuckles] probably when I was, like, a teenager, like, "Oh, this is actually...

These are people who make movies voting about what-

I think so

...

Adam McKay's career, I don't know how you describe, like, the, the shift he made into movies where...

I, I feel like to have movies where you're like, "Now I'm gonna stop-... and, uh, I'm going to have Margot Robbie in a bathtub explaining to you, you know, the serious issues now, like, that's like the, the spoonful of medicine you get with, like, the sugar of the com- Like, I, I think that there is something...

So I asked Alison Wilmore, a film critic at Vulture and New York Magazine, to explain the connection between what frightens us and what makes us laugh.

laugh.For me, the best horror comedies are both scary and funny.

I also will say, I think that one of the great qualities of horror, as much as we associate it with being this, you know, it's a spooky genre, it's filled with a lot of dark things, it can be, like, really upsetting sometimes, I think that comedy's always paired really naturally with horror.

Even in movies that are pretty straightforwardly horror, I think there's usually some room for intentional comedy.

Or sometimes, if the movie's not going well, unintentional comedy.

The one I always think about, just in terms of, like, an early horror comedy is, like, there's Abbott and Costello Meets Frankenstein.

Jordan Peele, Ari Aster, Steven Spielberg, Stephen King wants to watch a fucking movie.

And they got started on YouTube making, like, these kind of goofy sketches and videos for YouTube.

So I asked Alison Wilmore, a film critic at Vulture and New York Magazine, to explain the connection between what frightens us and what makes us laugh.

laugh.For me, the best horror comedies are both scary and funny.

I also will say, I think that one of the great qualities of horror, as much as we associate it with being this, you know, it's a spooky genre, it's filled with a lot of dark things, it can be, like, really upsetting sometimes, I think that comedy's always paired really naturally with horror.

Even in movies that are pretty straightforwardly horror, I think there's usually some room for intentional comedy.

Or sometimes, if the movie's not going well, unintentional comedy.

The one I always think about, just in terms of, like, an early horror comedy is, like, there's Abbott and Costello Meets Frankenstein.

Jordan Peele, Ari Aster, Steven Spielberg, Stephen King wants to watch a fucking movie.

And they got started on YouTube making, like, these kind of goofy sketches and videos for YouTube.