Movies

In An Effort To Shorten Academy Awards Telecast, 4 Awards Won't Be Presented Live

5:06pm February 12, 2019

by Bob Mondello

In the interest of cutting the Academy Awards telecast down to three hours, awards in four categories will be presented during commercial breaks, and edited for inclusion later in the broadcast.

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"You can't tell me that a movie that I'm doing about a story that involves black culture is not going to reach other corners of the world," Taraji P. Henson says.

'What Men Want' Actor Taraji P. Henson Talks Fighting 'Like A Girl'

10:26am February 10, 2019

by Michel Martin

Henson tells NPR what she wants for women who look like her. "You can't tell me that a movie that I'm doing about ... black culture is not going to reach other corners of the world," she says.

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The Netflix series Travelers uses video footage from an oil train disaster in Lac-Megantic, Quebec for its fictional series about time-travelers. The use of the footage has angered Canadians.

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Video Clips Of Oil Train Disaster Used In Netflix Sci-Fi Films Anger Canadians

10:52am February 09, 2019

by Brian Mann

In 2013, an American-owned oil tanker train exploded in the Quebec city of Lac-Megantic and killed 47 people. Canadians are furious that video of the disaster is being used by Netflix in sci-fi films.

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Albert Finney as Tom Jones in the 1963 movie Tom Jones.

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Albert Finney, Who Played Tom Jones, Daddy Warbucks And Hamlet, Dies At 82

2:47pm February 08, 2019

by Petra Mayer

The renowned British actor was nominated for five Oscars and two Tony Awards, among other prizes. His career spanned six decades, from understudying Laurence Olivier to appearing in a James Bond film.

Penélope Cruz stars as Laura and Javier Bardem as Paco in Asghar Farhadi's Everybody Knows.

Details Make The Difference In 'Everybody Knows' And 'Cold War'

1:41pm February 08, 2019

by John Powers

Cold War's richness comes from being steeped in detail. And it demonstrates what Everybody Knows does not: that the road to the universal begins with the specific.

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Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen On Singing Cowboys And Working With Oxen

1:41pm February 08, 2019

by Terry Gross

The Coen brothers spoke to Fresh Air in November 2018 about The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a Western that often subverts the expectations of the genre. The film is up for three Academy Awards.

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Melvin Gregg as Erick Scott and André Holland as Ray Burke in High Flying Bird, directed by Steven Soderbergh.

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The Business Of Sport Takes Center Stage In Soderbergh's 'High Flying Bird'

5:00am February 08, 2019

by Linda Holmes

A new Netflix film directed by Steven Soderbergh follows a sports agent who's trying to stay afloat and keep his clients happy during an NBA lockout.

A dumpling springs to life in the Oscar-nominated Pixar Studios short Bao.

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The 2019 Animated Short Film Oscar Nominees, Reviewed

5:01pm February 07, 2019

by Andrew Lapin

Four of the five animated-short nominees this year are weepy tales of parent-child relationships; critic Andrew Lapin reviews them all, and picks his favorite.

In The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot, Sam Elliott stars as an esteemed war veteran who helped kill Hitler. Years later, he's on a new mission — to kill Bigfoot.

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Sam Elliott Is 'The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then Bigfoot' — Or Is He?

5:00pm February 07, 2019

by Simon Abrams

First-time writer-director Robert D. Krzykowski's odd, flashback-besotted film is a love letter to its leading man, who plays a World War II veteran struggling to remember his past.

When she gains the power to read men's thoughts, Ali (Taraji P. Henson) gains an edge over her sexist colleagues in What Men Want.

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'What Men Want' Is Found Wanting

5:00pm February 07, 2019

by Scott Tobias

In this update of a 2000 Nancy Meyers hit, Taraji P. Henson is a sports agent who reads men's minds. But gender-flipping the original film weakens the premise — and the humor.