THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with AIMEE MANN's CHRISTMAS CAROL (profanity warnings): Part One has your Scrooge-y set-up with Michael Penn. Part Two features The Office's John Krasinski. Part Three has Michael Cera. Part Four has John C. Reilly.

BIG THIEF visits KEXP.

LOWER DENS visits KEXP.

CHRISSIE HYNDE visits World Cafe.

TOM WAITS gives a reading of a "Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis."

DAVID BYRNE shot down rumors of a Talking Heads reunion.

PRINCE: The Story of 1999 is a four-part podcast.

JOHNNY MARR On The Art Of The Pop Single.

STEREOGUM's 100 Favorite Songs Of 2019.

NOW SHOWING:This weekend's wide releases include Jumanji: The Next Level, which is currently scoring 68 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Richard Jewell, which is scoring 76 percent; Black Christmas, scoring 48 percent; Uncut Gems, scoring 93 percent; and Bombshell, scoring 63 percent.

PURPLE RAIN, THE LAST WALTTZ and CLERKS are among those added to the National Film Registry. 

CATS director Tom Hooper has revealed that the controversial new live-action film had to be largely remade after the hugely critical reaction its first trailer received.

GAME OF THRONES creators David Benioff & D.B. Weiss have set at Warner Bros an untitled thriller inspired by the graphic novel Lovecraft.

PETER DINKLEGE on his early days in the city, the price of stardom, and letting go of Tyrion Lannister.

KEVIN BACON reveals the character he'd like to revisit.

THE 35 BEST Movie Performances of 2019.

THOUSANDS OF "PENIS" FISH wash onto a California beach.

NYC PEST CONTROLLERS accidentally create a new breed of super-rat.

A 55-POUND CATFISH was caught and released on the Cumberland River.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: They're holiday porch pirates.