Katy Perry’s ‘Firework’ is perfect, but it took Aster trying hundreds of songs after not getting the rights to a Jay-Z track.

Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal face off in "Eddington." Credit: A24 Comedy is tragedy plus time. There may be a day when ...

Joaquin Phoenix tells USA TODAY about making "Beau Is Afraid," a surreal and funny follow-up to Ari Aster's horror hits "Hereditary" and "Midsommar." Watch Party Newsletter What to watch Win $100 ...

When Ari Aster went to his friends’ homes for childhood sleepovers, his dread would escalate as the situation became clear: ...

F or a film about an isolated, southern town that’s struggling through the Covid-19 pandemic, Ari Aster’s Eddington is ...

Writer-director Ari Aster's fiendishly funny film stars Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal as a sheriff and mayor on politically opposing sides in a well-off community during the summer of 2020.

The director’s latest is a none-too-subtle depiction of Covid hysteria, racial justice protests, isolation, and the ...

Emma Stone was blunt. “Are you okay, man?” she asked Ari Aster after a surprise screening of his latest film, “Beau Is Afraid” at Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse on a rainy Saturday afternoon.

Travis Hopsin of Punch Drunk Critics says the fear surrounding the pandemic, Black Lives Matter and the George Floyd protests ...

Director Ari Aster says it took about six months for Joaquin Phoenix to sign on to star in his new movie, “Beau Is Afraid.” “You get on your hands and knees and beg,” Aster jokes about his ...

Ambitious young genre filmmaker Ari Aster follows up his harrowing supernatural thriller “Hereditary” with a movie every bit as freaky and gory, but with a more cockeyed point-of-view. In ...