Brian Lairr on WNYC and with the end of the pledge drive for this show comes the

end of our full culture guide series. We've talked about music and books and art and theater

and Halloween. Today let's talk movies, strike or not, actors promoting their work or not.

There are some highly anticipated movies coming out this fall and news day film critic

Rayford Goothman joins us to tell us about some of them. Hey Rayford, good to hear you again.

Welcome back to WNYC. Hey Brian, thanks for having me.

And maybe it's just me, but the one film that seems to have gotten attention despite the

lack of actor-driven publicity is Martin Scorsese's new film, Killers of the Flower Moon,

which is getting raves and it's like three and a half hours. Did you see it? Yes, I have.

I'm one of the raves for sure. Tell us about it. Yeah, it's pretty interesting. It's a true story.

It's about a little known chapter in American history about the Osage Nation, Native American tribe,

and around the turn of the century, they discover oil on their land in Oklahoma and become

fabulously wealthy. And you might think that the government would try to take that land back

in some way, but instead a group of white Americans move in. They begin living amongst the Osage,

marrying their women and killing them thereby inheriting their oil. And Leonardo DiCaprio plays a

guy named Ernest Burke Hart, Lily Gladstone plays his new Osage wife, Molly, both real people.

And sort of the question at the center of the film is, is he going to try to murder this woman,

or does he love her, or both? And it sets up a really interesting dynamic.

Sounds fascinating. I'm also seeing Oscar Buzz for the movie The Holdovers, the new film from

director Alexander Payne, who's known for the film Sideways and Election. What can you tell us

about this one? This is Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti. They're back together again after

Sideways. It's set during the Christmas of 1970. Giamatti plays a guy named Paul Hunnam.

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