Movies

The Right Stuff: Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) order off the menu in Captain Marvel.

Arts

'Captain Marvel' Takes Flight — Through Very Familiar Skies

3:02pm March 05, 2019

by Glen Weldon

A couple of indie writer/directors get to play in the Marvel sandbox in this film about an intergalactic warrior (Brie Larson) who arrives on Earth with a warning about a secret alien invasion.

Music & Culture

Michael Jackson Documentary 'Leaving Neverland' Airs Sunday

8:51am March 03, 2019

by Elizabeth Blair

Two men allege years of sexual abuse by Michael Jackson in HBO's documentary Leaving Neverland. The Jackson Estate is suing the network, calling the show a "posthumous character assassination."

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Michael Jackson and Wade Robson in 1987.

'Neverland' Director On Investigating 'What Happened Once The Bedroom Door Closed'

5:09pm March 01, 2019

Filmmaker Dan Reed discusses his four-hour documentary, Leaving Neverland, which features two men claiming Michael Jackson sexually abused them as children.

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After 'A Madea Family Funeral,' Tyler Perry Will Hang Up His Madea Wig

4:32pm March 01, 2019

Tyler Perry is retiring his Madea wig — the last of this major money-making movie franchise is hitting theaters this weekend with A Madea Family Funeral.

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Arts

Remembering 'Singin' In The Rain' Co-Director Stanley Donen

1:38pm March 01, 2019

by Terry Gross

"Dance numbers are anything but spontaneous," Donen told Fresh Air in 1996. Donen, who died Feb. 21, also directed On the Town, Funny Face and Damn Yankees, among other films.

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In The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Chiwetel Ejiofor (left) plays Trywell, the father of titular teenager William Kamkwamba (played by Maxwell Simba). Ejiofor also directed the movie and wrote the screenplay.

Arts

Chiwetel Ejiofor's Directing Debut Takes Him To Malawi To Capture 'The Wind'

6:21pm February 28, 2019

by Ari Shapiro

The English actor performed in, directed and wrote the screenplay for The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. It's based on a memoir by William Kamkwamba, whose ingenuity helped save his village from famine.

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We're Gonna Need A Wider Lens: Matt Smith plays photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in a new biopic.

Arts

'Mapplethorpe': A Transgressive Artist Gets An Aggressively Dull Biopic

5:01pm February 28, 2019

by Andrew Lapin

A bored-seeming Matt Smith plays the famous — and famously provocative — photographer in a plodding film that too-dutifully ticks familiar scenes off the Great Artist Biopic checklist.

Frances (Chloë Grace Moretz) and Greta (Isabelle Huppert) spill the tea in Neil Jordan's Greta.

Arts

In 'Greta,' A Magnetic Isabelle Huppert Plays A Deadly Game of Chat-And-Mouse

5:00pm February 28, 2019

by Kyle Turner

A young woman (Chloë Grace Moretz) befriends a mysterious older woman (Huppert) in Neil Jordan's weird thriller. As extreme as Greta gets, Huppert "finds careful nuances within the bonkers."

Franz Rogowski plays a man who flees to Marseilles and finds himself stuck there in the film Transit.

Arts

In 'Transit,' A Man Fleeing Fascists Gets Caught In A Web Of Mistaken Identity

5:00pm February 28, 2019

by Scott Tobias

German director Christian Petzold adapts a 1944 Holocaust novel by setting it in the modern day. The result is a haunting and beguiling narrative of 21st-century displacement.

Arts

Documentary 'Apollo 11' Retells History With Wide Eyes - And A Wider Perspective

5:00pm February 28, 2019

by Monica Castillo

Newly restored footage of the historic 1969 moonshot widens the focus to include the hundreds of men and women who made the mission possible.