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Actor Mary Holland and director Maureen Bharoocha (Golden Arm) listen to clips of unusual musical instruments. The title of this game is a gratuitous pun of a series of young adult fantasy novels.

Maria Bamford and Richard Kind (Everything’s Gonna Be Okay) play a word game celebrating Kind’s musical theater performances, even the performances he doesn’t remember very well.

The hilarious Maria Bamford and Richard Kind (Everything’s Gonna Be Okay) guess if various objects have been to space. But they’re all silly objects, because “Soyuz capsule” is kind of a gimmie.

Jonathan Coulton’s daughter just turned 16. He and Ask Me Another host Ophira Eisenberg discuss the bittersweet passage of time.

A priest loses his faith. A woman breaks the heel of her shoe. A couple visits their child’s grave. Life unfolds as a series of stylized, bone-dry comic sketches in Roy Andersson’s sublime new film.

“I can’t wait to just be there and feel it and listen to the music and smell the churros,” says Robert Laird, a Disney megafan.

Zoë Roth was just 4 when her dad took a picture of her standing in front a burning house. That photo launched uncounted memes and now the original copy has sold at auction as a nonfungible token.

Irish comedian Maeve Higgins moved to the U.S. with a visa for artists with “extraordinary abilities.” But the myth of the “good immigrant,” she says, perpetuates harm and discrimination.

After years of begging by fans online, Nintendo has released a sequel to the classic N64 game Pokémon Snap — it’s a peaceful playthrough that has you taking pictures of monsters, not capturing them.

A very funny machine uprising forces an estranged daughter (Abbi Jacobson) and father (Danny McBride) to save the world — and rebuild their relationship.

For the second straight year, the communal arts festival isn’t happening because of the pandemic. But the community that hosts the pilgrimage doesn’t mind.

A CD set from Mosaic, full of singles and albums made between ’46 and ’66, confirms the variety of Armstrong’s studio sides — and shows how much work went into making them sound casual.