Movies

Redacted Mueller Report Draws Comparisons To Oscars Red Carpet

6:58am April 22, 2019

NPR's Danny Nett looked at a page of the report and saw the image of Billy Porter in a black velvet gown. He matched other black-and-white styles with pages of the redacted report. It went viral.

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'Rafiki': The First Kenyan Film To Premiere At Cannes, Banned At Home

5:28pm April 20, 2019

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks to Wanuri Kahiu, director of the film Rafiki about Kahiu's style of filmmaking and why the movie was banned in Kenya.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars as Ruth, a woman who must learn to harness her inherited supernatural powers, in Fast Color.

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'Fast Color' Celebrates A Supermom Who Literally Moves Heaven And Earth

6:13pm April 19, 2019

by Ailsa Chang

Moms perform heroic tasks every day, but they rarely get portrayed as superheroes. Fast Color tells the story of three generations of black women and the supernatural powers they inherit.

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'Long Day's Journey Into Night' Astonishes With Technical Achievement

1:29pm April 19, 2019

by Justin Chang

Chinese writer-director Bi Gan's new film centers on a former casino owner haunted by the memory of a woman from his past. It features a 59-minute sequence, shot in a single take and converted to 3-D.

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Gina Rodriguez, DeWanda Wise and Brittany Snow star in Someone Great.

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In 'Someone Great,' The Greatest Someone Might Be Your Best Pal

12:01pm April 19, 2019

by Linda Holmes

Gina Rodriguez stars in Someone Great, a Netflix comedy that follows three friends trying to have one last adventure before everything changes for good.

Elisabeth Moss plays Becky Something, a punk singer struggling with substance abuse, in the new film Her Smell. "It was the hardest dialogue I've ever had to learn," she says.

In 'Her Smell,' Elisabeth Moss 'Turned It Up To 11,' Then Turned It Up Some More

10:18am April 19, 2019

by Rachel Martin

In her new film, Moss plays a punk singer struggling with addiction. "The only mistake we could make was not going far enough," she says.

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Wisconsin Man Breaks Record By Watching 'Captain Marvel' 116 Times

7:05am April 19, 2019

Chiropractor Steve Ruppel told TV station WSAW in Wausau, Wis., that it was the "most insane thing ever." That means something coming from Ruppel, who's broken other Guinness records.

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Under the Silver Lake is the newest film from David Robert Mitchell, who directed 2015's It Follows.

Arts

In Pulpy L.A. Noir 'Under The Silver Lake,' A Man Chases Signs And Portents

5:00pm April 18, 2019

by Danny Hensel

There's a lot of flash and less substance in writer/director David Robert Mitchell's tale of a young man (Andrew Garfield) who sees hidden clues everywhere. But that flash is lovingly executed.

Lily James and Tessa Thompson play sisters struggling to stay afloat in Little Woods.

Arts

'Little Woods' Is Grimly Lovely — Dark And Deep

5:00pm April 18, 2019

by Ella Taylor

Two sisters (Lily James, Tessa Thompson) struggle to navigate the opioid crisis in their small town. Nia DaCosta's first film is a "quietly feminist thriller" that's "modest but intensely empathetic."

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'Hail Satan?': Documentary Examines Protest Group That Bedevils Religious Conservatives

5:00pm April 18, 2019

by Andrew Lapin

The film spotlights the Satanic Temple, an organization that stages wry publicity stunts to underscore the separation of church and state. The doc "makes for an electric modern theological debate."