Why I love quiet action sequences in movies
NPR critic Linda Holmes explains why action sequences that don't echo into the movie theater next door should be appreciated.
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What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend reading, listening and viewing
Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Rutherford Falls season two, Magic Mike XXL, and more.
Tasman Keith didn't come here to point fingers
The First Nations rapper comes from "a place of understanding [that] at the end of the day everybody is human and we all have a lack of knowledge that we can expand on." His debut album is out today.
Soccer star Megan Rapinoe says patriotism means demanding better of ourselves
Rapinoe has been an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ rights, pay equity and the Black Lives Matter movement. She was recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Originally broadcast Nov. 9, 2020.
Denzel Washington: The Fresh Air interview
Washington was recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He spoke to Fresh Air in 2008, about the film The Great Debaters, which he directed and starred in.
'Both Sides of the Blade' is a French melodrama about intimacy and illicit desire
Juliette Binoche is a woman whose life is disrupted by the return of a former lover. Both Sides of the Blade sounds like soap-opera material, but nothing about the film feels trite or predictable.
Itinerante, un trío que revive la música andina de Colombia
Tocada en tres instrumentos de cuerda, esta música fue la banda sonora del país desde principios del siglo XX hasta la década de 1940.
'Thank You for Your Servitude' casts harsh light on GOP's shift and its motives
Although Donald Trump remains an eminence throughout, Mark Leibovich's true subject here is Trump's stable of enablers and the transformation they have wrought on their party and themselves.
'O' takes readers on a journey of abandonment and reclamation
In her third poetry collection, Zeina Hashem Beck is graceful her defiance of fitting self into a box. She embraces the multitudes – mother, citizen, poet, warrior – and presents herself as one whole.
Laura Veirs discusses the uphill road to independence and 'Found Light'
Singer-songwriter Laura Veirs releases her first album produced without her ex-husband, who she divorced in 2019.