Today, culture critic Wesley Morris (The New York Times) returns to Talk Easy for a conversation about The Wonder of... more

Since his directorial debut in 2006, Jason Reitman has made the kind of films they say Hollywood doesn’t make anymore.... more

Director Francis Ford Coppola doesn’t just want to make movies. He wants to change them. This was true in 1969... more

Joaquin Phoenix is one of the greatest actors of his generation. For three decades, he’s moved seamlessly between auteur-driven films... more

For actor Myha’la, the role of a lifetime arrived less than a year out of college. “Lightning struck,” she says,... more

For the past couple decades, actor Ken Leung has played scene-stealing characters in films like Rush Hour, Keeping the Faith,... more

To commemorate his 30th birthday, Abbi Jacobson interviews Sam! They talk about Sam's early days in journalism (8:00), his Almost... more

To start, Sam sits with another week in American life, before returning to our timely conversation with Congressman Maxwell Frost... more

This week, our guest is trailblazing filmmaker Lee Daniels. At the top, we discuss his fifteen-year journey to the new... more

Since 1989 (Sex, Lies, and Videotape), filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has been a pioneering voice in American cinema. Part free-wheeling iconoclast,... more