What's that sound text makes when it appears on screen in action movies? NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Forrest Wickman of Slate, who investigated where exactly it came from.

Quentin Tarantino has directed several action movies to date, including Death Proof and two volumes of Kill Bill, but which ...

Fury Road. Sometimes, you just want to watch guns go bang, cars go vroom, and bad guys get their just deserts. But there's a ...

It was widely believed for many decades that, with very few exceptions, sequels were always inferior to the original. And to ...

If you go to the movies enough, you may recognize a sound effect over and over again in action movies and think you’re losing my mind. So there you have it: The sounds you keep hearing in your ...

The first Terminator movie laid down the template for what these movies could sound like, but it wasn’t until the hit sequel T2 that we were treated to the ideal Terminator soundtrack. Featuring ...