A True Believer Remembers Stan Lee
Stan Lee — born Stanley Martin Lieber — co-created many beloved Marvel Comics characters, but he became the company's tireless, beloved figurehead. NPR's Glen Weldon offers a remembrance.
Movies
'A Private War' Celebrates The Courage Of Journalist Marie Colvin
A new film features the story of journalist Marie Colvin, who was killed while reporting in Syria. Starring Rosamund Pike, A Private War, shows what drove and haunted the journalist.
'Boy Erased': The True Story Behind The Film
Garrard Conley's memoir of growing up as the gay son of a conservative Baptist preacher has been made into a movie. He speaks with NPR's Michel Martin.
Life's Cruelty Is A Constant In The Coen Brothers' Mixed Bag Western 'Ballad'
Joel and Ethan Coen's new film is a feature-length collection of six stories set in the Old West. Justin Chang says the tall tales featured in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs are an odd, melancholy lot.
Jeff Goldblum The Jazz Artist? Life, Uh, Finds A Way
At his weekly gigs in L.A. — and now on a new live album — you'll find the actor playing keys one moment, holding court with attendees the next and just generally being ... well, Jeff Goldblum.
'Postcards From London': Rent Boys Will Be Rent Boys In A Stylized, Neon-Lit Soho
Writer/director Steve McLean's "lovely piece of whimsy" about a gay sex worker in 1970s London examines "the mixed blessings of sex, art, beauty and authenticity."
'The Front Runner' Stumbles Into Familiar Territory
The film follows Gary Hart (Hugh Jackman) through his three-week presidential bid that fell victim to monkey business, but what director Jason Reitman brings to it is familiar — even quaint.
In Netflix's War Epic 'Outlaw King' There's Plenty Of War, But Not Much That's Epic
Director David Mackenzie (Hell or High Water) keeps the scale too small and the stakes too low in this retelling of the rebellion of Scotland's Robert the Bruce (Chris Pine).
'The Girl In The Spider's Web' Struggles To Break Free Of Techno-Thriller Cliches
Claire Foy takes over the role of Swedish super-hacker Lisbeth Salander in a reboot that reheats stale ideas from many previous spy/hacker movies.
Inside This Deceptively Simple Story Lurks A 'Burning' Psychological Thriller
Director Lee Chang-dong's film centers on two young men and the woman who brings them together. Critic Justin Chang calls Burning the most absorbing — and enigmatic — new movie he's seen all year.