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Director Andrea Berloff On 'The Kitchen' And How Hollywood Approaches Women-Led Projects

5:00pm August 09, 2019

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with writer Andrea Berloff about her directorial debut, The Kitchen. Before this, Berloff was best known for her screenplay for Straight Outta Compton.

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Workers "sling" the last remaining shark cast from the original Jaws mold and lift it, by crane, to a nearby crate. After spending more than 25 years at a Los Angeles junkyard, "Bruce" is headed for a museum.

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'Jaws' Shark Gets His Bite Back: A Love Story

8:13am August 09, 2019

by Cory Turner

The last replica shark from the 1975 classic blockbuster, Jaws, has gotten a facelift on his way to a new museum.

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'Jaws' Shark Gets A Facelift

8:03am August 09, 2019

by Cory Turner

From movie royalty to a junkyard to the world's preeminent movie museum — the last replica shark from the classic Jaws has been salvaged, restored and is as terrifying as ever.

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Chicken or Beef? Michelle Williams (left) and Julianne Moore (right) star in After the Wedding, a gender-swapped remake of an Oscar-nominated 2006 Danish drama.

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'After The Wedding' There'll Be Dinner, Dancing And Dire Revelations

5:00pm August 08, 2019

by Mark Jenkins

Bart Freundlich's gender-flipped remake of a twisty Danish film is glossy, slick and strangely sedate.

Hell(s Kitchen) hath no fury like a mob wife scorned: (L-R) Elisabeth Moss, Tiffany Haddish, and Melissa McCarthy star in New Line Cinema's drama The Kitchen.

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In The Overwritten, Undercooked 'The Kitchen,' Mob Wives Are Doin' It For Themselves

5:00pm August 08, 2019

by Kyle Turner

Andrea Berloff adapts a comics miniseries about mob wives taking over their jailed husbands' rackets; it's at its best once the stilted, speechifying dialogue settles down, and the pulpiness kicks in.

Guillermo del Toro produced and co-wrote this screen adaptation of the classic kid's horror anthology.

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'Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark' Puts The BOO! In Book Adaptation

5:00pm August 08, 2019

by Andrew Lapin

Alvin Schwartz's beloved children's books become an atmospheric, if repetitive, kid-friendly horror film.

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'This Changes Everything': Geena Davis On Empowering Women In Hollywood

1:20pm August 07, 2019

by Terry Gross

A new documentary explores how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. Davis and director Maria Giese discuss the dramatic disparities on screen.

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Remembering Oscar-Winning Documentary Filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker

1:20pm August 05, 2019

by Terry Gross

Pennebaker, who died Aug. 1, pioneered a cinéma vérité style of filmmaking in documentaries like Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back and The War Room. Originally broadcast in 1989.

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'Vision Portraits' Filmmaker Wanted To Chronicle Other Artists Who Are Blind

1:19pm August 05, 2019

by Terry Gross

Filmmaker Rodney Evans is still making movies, despite having lost much of his vision. His new documentary is about how he and three other blind or visually impaired artists continue to do their work.

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Cate Blanchett stars as a mom on the run in the new movie adaptation of Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

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'Bernadette' Is A Cautionary Tale About Putting Creativity Aside After Kids

8:38am August 04, 2019

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Where'd You Go, Bernadette stars Cate Blanchett as a brilliant architect who hasn't designed anything in 20 years. The film, directed by Richard Linklater, was adapted from Maria Semple's 2012 novel.