Movies

Review: Is 'Downton Abbey,' The Movie, Worth The Wait?

6:12am September 20, 2019

NPR's David Greene talks to Kenneth Turan, film critic for Morning Edition and the Los Angeles Times, about the new movie based on the popular TV series: Downton Abbey. The film opens Friday.

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Jim Carter returns as Charles Carson for a royal visit in Downton Abbey.

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In The 'Downton Abbey' Film, A Royal Visit Proves Rather A Spot Of Bother

8:01pm September 19, 2019

by Glen Weldon

The new film is "less a victory lap than a cakewalk." Everything about the TV series — those aspects you loved, and those you didn't — is reproduced here with astonishing fidelity.

More like DAD Astra am I right? Brad Pitt stars as astronaut Roy McBride chasing the ghost of his father across an unforgiving solar system in Ad Astra.

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'Ad Astra' Soars

6:52pm September 19, 2019

by Chris Klimek

Distance — both interplanetary and emotional — is the subject of James Gray's "stirring sci-fi epic" that stars Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones.

Toni Servillo stars in Paolo Sorrentino's film, which was recut from a two-part Italian TV series about the decadent life of Silvio Berlusconi.

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'Loro': Sorrentino's Portrait Of Berlusconi As A Once-Powerful Lion In Winter

5:01pm September 19, 2019

by Mark Jenkins

This "stylish but overloaded satire is less sober narrative than drunken tone poem — a buzzing, throbbing attempt to simulate" what it was like inside the mogul-turned-prime-minister's circle.

Roy Cohn, pictured here sitting on a senate investigation subcommittee, is remembered as a master political manipulator in Where's My Roy Cohn?

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Documentary 'Where's My Roy Cohn?' Suggests He's Closer Than You Think

5:00pm September 19, 2019

by Ella Taylor

Matt Tyrnaeur's documentary posits that Cohn, a notoriously ruthless and amoral political operative, set the ground rules by which today's politics play out.

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'Downton Abbey' Movie Brings You Up To Speed With The Crawleys

4:38pm September 19, 2019

by Bob Mondello

The Crawleys are back, and the big screen has them this time, in a story that picks up a few years after the TV show ended.

'Ad Astra' Director Says Cosmic Sounds Helped Create Celestial World

6:52am September 19, 2019

by Mandalit del Barco

Director James Gray built sets sideways and dangled actors from wires. He also listened to space sounds on headphones as he created the lonely celestial world of an astronaut played by Brad Pitt.

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MoviePass Shuts Down

4:25pm September 16, 2019

by Vincent Acovino

The movie ticket subscription service startup was popular with subscribers. It may have ultimately failed as a business, but some say it succeeded in disrupting the movie theater business model.

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The late opinion journalist Molly Ivins, a syndicated columnist and public speaker, is the subject of the new documentary film Raise Hell.

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A Portrait Of Molly Ivins, Maverick Texas Journalist, In 'Raise Hell'

7:46am September 15, 2019

by Wade Goodwyn

A new documentary about the political columnist and author takes a personal look at a woman who used her scalding wit and investigative skills to skewer politicians for nearly four decades.

For a fleeting moment in time, MoviePass subscribers could see a movie a day for just $9.95 a month.

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MoviePass Has Officially Shut Down, And We Don't Know If There Will Be A Sequel

5:11pm September 14, 2019

by Jenny Gathright

The service announced Friday that it would be suspending service for an undefined amount of time.