Movie Interviews

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Wonder Woman Shows Girls That Men Aren't The Only Superheros Who Rescue People

6:27pm June 03, 2017

The original Wonder Woman film takes place during WWI, but Jill Lepore, author of The Secret History of Wonder Woman, says the Princess of the Amazons has also been fighting a "war" off-screen.

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Pitt's War Machine character, Gen. Glen McMahon, is loosely based on the real Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

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'Our Film Is Funny Until It's Not': Brad Pitt On The Darkly Comic 'War Machine'

7:41am May 26, 2017

by David Greene

Pitt plays a semi-clueless four-star general charged with overseeing the war effort in Afghanistan. He says the film uses comedy to lure viewers in, then shows them some harsh realities.

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Amandla Stenberg stars in Everything, Everything, a complicated love story between a teenaged girl unable to leave her home because of a rare illness, and her new next-door neighbor.

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Amandla Stenberg 'Infiltrates' Teen Romance World In 'Everything, Everything'

6:23pm May 14, 2017

Amandla Stenberg stars in Everything, Everything as teenage girl who is forbidden to leave her home due to a rare illness. Stenberg talks about this role and her activism with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.

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Roger Stone has been "indispensable ... to virtually every bigwig in Republican politics since Nixon," says filmmaker Morgan Pehme.

'Get Me Roger Stone' Profiles The Man Who's Wanted Trump To Run Since 1987

9:34am May 12, 2017

by David Greene

Documentarian Morgan Pehme says the political consultant cultivated Trump's candidacy for almost 30 years. "I think he believed from day one that Trump was a legitimate candidate."

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Liev Schreiber plays the boxer Chuck Wepner, who fought Muhammad Ali in 1975.

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Liev Schreiber On The 'Unsafe' Obsession With Celebrity And The Story Of 'Chuck'

12:20am May 07, 2017

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with actor Liev Schreiber about his new film Chuck, which tells the story of boxer Chuck Wepner, the real-life inspiration for the Rocky film franchise.

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Actor Richard Gere says of his new character, "I think there's a kindness and softness in Norman, where he really believes these schemes are going to be good for people."

'Every Culture Has A Norman': Richard Gere On Playing A Fixer And Wandering Jew

7:48am May 06, 2017

by Scott Simon

Gere's latest film, Norman, is about a Jewish man who pops up on the streets of Manhattan dropping names, handing out cards and promising to connect people.

Director Alrick Brown and actress Olivia Washington on the set of The Forever Tree.

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In Fantasy Short 'Forever Tree,' A Black Heroine Learns To Stop Playing Small

7:12am May 06, 2017

by Scott Simon

The film is set during the Harlem Renaissance and tells the mysterious, magical story of Tawny Bennett, an antiquarian's apprentice.

"The question of complete control and complete dominance of a marketplace means complete control and complete dominance of your daily life," Tom Hanks says. He plays the co-founder of a giant tech company in the new film The Circle.

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'It Is Neither Nor, It Is Both': Tom Hanks Finds No Easy Answers In 'The Circle'

10:02am May 01, 2017

by Michel Martin

In the film adaptation of Dave Eggers' 2013 novel, Hanks plays Eamon Bailey, co-founder of a giant social media and tech company with the creepy mantra: "Sharing is caring."

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Emmy Rossum and Harry Lennix in "The Politician," one of the short films in the series #ThatsHarassment.

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These Short Films Shine A Spotlight On Sexual Harassment

7:56am April 30, 2017

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Israeli playwright Sigal Avin teamed up with her friend David Schwimmer to produce #ThatsHarassment. The short films — some inspired by her own experiences — aim to clarify what harassment is.

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For 'New York Times' Obit Writers, 'Death Is Never Solicitous Of A Deadline'

1:52pm April 27, 2017

Bruce Weber and Margalit Fox have written obituaries for thousands of people, ranging from heads of state to the inventor of the Etch-a-Sketch. They are featured in the new documentary Obit.

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