Your Guide To Movies Coming Out This Holiday Season
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Every year between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Hollywood offers up lots of brightly wrapped presents - kid flicks, awards contenders,...
View Article'The Last Jedi' Is Not More Of The Same In 'Star Wars' Franchise
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" opens this weekend in more theaters than any "Star Wars" movie ever has. It is episode eight in a series that...
View Article'The Post': Pentagon Papers Put The Press Under Pressure
Steven Spielberg's The Post is a story of journalists, government leaks, and a president who hates the press. It's about the publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, but there's a reason Spielberg...
View Article'A Fantastic Woman' Is As Strong And Complicated As Its Star
When Orlando (Francisco Reyes) enters a rooftop supper-club in Santiago at the beginning of the film, he can't take his eyes off Marina (Daniela Vega), a striking young vocalist who's crooning lyrics...
View ArticleIn 'Foxtrot,' Grief And Fate Come Together In A Brutal, Beautiful Dance
This Sunday night, some nattily dressed Oscars presenter will read the names of this year's five nominees for best foreign-language film. The politically-charged Foxtrot — which received funding from...
View ArticleWhat To Expect From The 90th Academy Awards
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: On Sunday, Hollywood will once again celebrate its own at the 90th annual Academy Awards. Typically by this point we have a general idea of...
View ArticlePolitical Subtext In Wes Anderson's 'Isle Of Dogs' Is More Bark Than Bite
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Wes Anderson's new animated puppet movie is called "Isle Of Dogs." I'm saying that carefully because if you say "Isle Of Dogs" quickly, it...
View ArticleA Fragile Relationship Tested By Freedom In 'Outside In'
What happens to a relationship when its rules change? That's a question writer/director Lynn Shelton has spent a good part of her filmmaking career answering in a series of intimate indie comedies like...
View ArticleWhat Made '2001, A Space Odyssey' Such An Influential Film
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Fifty years ago this week, Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" opened to mixed reviews and hundreds of audience walkouts at its...
View ArticleIn 'Avengers: Infinity War,' The Superheroes Have Their Work Cut Out For Them
At one point early in the new Marvel movie Avengers: Infinity War , the big, purple bad guy snarls, "The end ... is near." In a way, he's talking about the Avengers movies themselves. The superhero...
View Article'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Has A Long Buildup But Offers More Background On Han
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Like every film that comes from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, "Solo: A Star Wars Story" has been kept tightly under wraps before...
View Article'Deadpool 2' Returns With More Trash Talk And Humor
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Marvel's first "Deadpool" movie came out two years ago. Ryan Reynolds starred as a super-violent superhero who could not stop talking to...
View ArticleLeapin' Lizards! The Dinos Are Loose Again In 'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom'
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Steven Spielberg's pets are off the leash again. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM") CORNISH: It's been 25 years and four...
View ArticleIf You're Familiar With Bo Burnham's Humor, 'Eighth Grade' Will Surprise You
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: YouTube star Bo Burnham is known for the rapid-fire comic videos he started making as a teenager. He's now 27 with an impressively diverse...
View Article'Far From The Tree' Celebrates Family Differences
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Even under the best of circumstances, parenting can be a challenge. Writer Andrew Solomon looked at what happens when that challenge is...
View ArticleReview: 'The Miseducation Of Cameron Post'
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: In the 1980s, when comedian Lucille Ball was in her final years, she was approached by her hometown in upstate New York. They asked how she'd...
View ArticleProlific Playwright Neil Simon Dies On Sunday At Age 91
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: I remember in high school and college, I'd see other people reading books. And I was doing this odd thing. I was reading scripts for plays by...
View ArticleBurt Reynolds, Swaggering Star Actor, Has Died At 82
Actor Burt Reynolds, who played good ol' boys and rugged action heroes in an acting career that spanned seven decades, has died. Reynolds died Thursday morning at a Florida hospital following a heart...
View ArticleNPR's Movie Preview: 15 New Films To Watch — And Watch Out For — This Fall
Fall is often the most intense movie season of all. Awards contenders begin to come into focus after the Toronto International Film Festival, while comedies and thrillers continue to hit screens. We...
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