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Transmissions at Big Ears: Thurston Moore & Kramer

291 | MAILBAG! Meg And Lorien Answer YOUR Questions

922. – Adam Goldberg

Matthew Shear is a filmmaker and actor based in New York. His debut feature as writer-director, <a href="https://fantasylifemovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fantasy Life</a>, in which he stars opposite Amanda Peet, Alessandro Nivola, Judd Hirsch and Bob Balaban, world premiered at SXSW 2025, where it won the Narrative Feature Audience Award. The film opens in New York on March 27 and plays nationwide from April 3. Shear also starred in Noah Baumbach&#8217;s Mistress America, alongside Greta Gerwig, as well as in the limited series The Alienist, opposite Dakota Fanning and Daniel Brühl. His other credits include Baumbach&#8217;s The Meyerowitz Stories, M. Night Shyamalan&#8217;s Old, Nathan Silver&#8217;s Between the Temples, and The Boy Downstairs, opposite Zosia Mamet. (Photo by Benno Kling.)

Matthew Shear

Film

Battlestar Fantasy

Dry Cleaning (Florence Shaw)

750: Mariam Daud Gets Inspired By Her Mom and Miyazaki

Haroula Rose is a filmmaker and performer from Chicago, now living in Los Angeles. In 2025, All Happy Families, her sophomore feature film as writer, director and producer, was released in theaters nationwide. The film was executive produced by Michael Shannon and stars Josh Radnor, Becky Ann Baker, Chandra Russell, Rob Huebel, John Ashton, David Pasquesi and Colleen Camp. Her debut feature as writer-director, Once Upon a River, an adaptation of the bestselling novel, won 19 awards at over 40 festivals worldwide. Haroula was selected to be part of Hello Sunshine’s short film series, for which she wrote and directed a romcom fable called Hound of Love. Other acclaimed short films and videos include As They Slept, Lost &amp; Found, Wedding Dress, No Love Song and Baby Crazy. Rose received her BA and MA from the University of Chicago, and attended USC&#8217;s MFA program. As a producer she has worked on Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station, David Sington’s The Fear of Thirteen, Heaven Adores You, Permanent and Saint Frances. Rose has released three LPs as well as remixes, singles and EP’s with Thirty Tigers and Tone Tree Music. Her latest collaboration is a group of compositions with Oliver Hill, released on Ba Da Bing Records in early 2025.

Haroula Rose

Short Film Premiere: Your Own Good

10 years ago this April, Chicago’s Ratboys put out their first collection of songs. The RATBOY EP, consisting of five indie-folk dorm room recordings, was free to download on Bandcamp and humbly passed around to friends on social media. 
Cut to 2021, and Ratboys would normally be celebrating their 10-year anniversary on the road, playing a mix of songs from their very first release to their most recent, last year’s critically-acclaimed Printer’s Devil. Instead, just two weeks after the album’s February 2020 release and mere days before heading out on their first headline tour, the COVID-19 pandemic forced all touring to a halt. Despite not being able to play in-person shows for the past year, Ratboys has managed to stay busy by performing their music online via their own Virtual Tour series and by finding a different way to celebrate their first decade of being a band.

Ratboys

Music

Ratboys and Remember Sports Made Their New Record in the Same Room

How Long Gone Today: March 24, 2026

Paget Brewster can currently be seen in the psychosexual horror-comedy <a href="https://yellowveilpictures.com/touch-me/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Touch Me</a>, which is currently out in New York City, will be in limited theaters from March 27, and on demand and on digital April 7. She recently reprised her long-running role as Special Agent Emily Prentiss in the Criminal Minds and appeared on seasons one and two of Hulu&#8217;s How I Met Your Father. Other recent work includes Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Hollywood and the CBS comedy Mom. Paget has also starred in the comedy shows Another Period, Grandfathered with John Stamos, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Huff and Community. Paget’s extensive voiceover work includes Family Guy, American Dad, Tuca &amp; Bertie, The Simpsons, and many more, and she was nominated for an Emmy in 2020 for her voice work in Ducktales. Among her feature film credits are Welcome to Happiness, My Big Fat Independent Movie, The Big Bad Swim, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Man of the House.

Paget Brewster

Three Great Things: Paget Brewster

749: Mariana Velásquez Throws the Perfect Dinner Party. You’re Closer Than You Think.

921. – Chris & Jason

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