Armando Iannucci, creator of "Thick of It" and "Veep," makes his feature film writing and directing debut with "The Death of Stalin." I talk with the comic genius about the challenges of doing political satire at a time when the real world is crazier than anything he can imagine.

The 90th Academy Awards are Sunday and one of the most misunderstood and least appreciated of the craft categories is film editing. So here is a trio of brilliant film editors to talk about their work on this year's Oscar-nominated films and to provide insights into just what film editors do.

My idea of a good date movie is "Shaun of the Dead." So maybe I'm not the best person to be making Valentine's Day recommendations. But there's one contemporary filmmaker who consistently tackles love with such lush romanticism that even I swoon at his movies. That filmmaker is Wong Kar-Wai. So as much as I hate Cupid's silly holiday, here's a Valentine to Wong Kar-Wai.

Fifty-two years ago ABC launched the TV show "Batman" and forever changed the pop culture landscape.

Take a tour of the Batman '66 Exhibit at the Hollywood Museum with exhibit organizer Roger Neal. Then celebrate the "Batman" '66 TV show with fan and guest curator Wally Wingert and collector Alex Zsolt, who loaned items from his personal collection to the exhibit. I'll also talk with fans David Glanzer, Dan Bois, and Batton Lash, about the impact the show had on them as kids, and finally, I interview Burt Ward who created the character of Robin, the Boy Wonder, on the TV show opposite Adam West's Batman.

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Noirchaelogist, Czar of noir, host of TCM's Noir Alley, founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation... whatever title you want to refer to him by, Eddie Muller is simply the man to go to when you want to know anything about film noir.

The holidays are upon us so what better time to think about spirituality. For some, movie theaters are like churches and the movies they screen can teach about how to live life.

For some, cinemas are churches and for Katherine Buffington movies can provide a foundation for spiritual practice. She looks to "Star Wars" and more fully to horror movies as spiritual practice. Find out what horror movies from "Beetlejuice" to "Alien" to "It Follows" can tell us about how to live our lives. And don't worry, no spoilers about "The Last Jedi."

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For this podcast, Arts & Culture Reporter Beth Accomando turns to her archives for an interview with David Cronenberg about his 1996 film "Crash," adapted from J.G. Ballard's controversial 1973 novel revolving around people with symphorophilia, in this case, car-crash sexual fetishism.

I go back into the archives for a 1997 interview with David Cronenberg for a discussion of his controversial film "Crash." The film that looks to people who get sexually aroused by car crashes just celebrated its 20th anniversary. Find out why Cronenberg is not interested in making comfortable cinema.

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