How To Make Movies 'Like Brothers'
NPR's Scott Simon asks brothers Mark and Jay Duplass about working together as filmmakers and about their new book, Like Brothers.
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2 Women Share The Stress And Sleeplessness Of Motherhood In 'Tully'
An exhausted mother hires a free-spirited night nurse to tend to her baby in a Diablo Cody's latest film. Critic David Edelstein calls Tully a "strange and mythic" movie.
Jurist, Prudent: Documentary 'RBG' Profiles Ginsburg On And Off The Bench
Co-directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West's doc preaches to the choir, and does so most effectively when it focuses on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's career and not the memes that have accrued to her.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'A Quiet Place'
The shush-iest film to become a hit in quite some time gets some overdue attention from the panel on this episode.
Bill Cosby And Roman Polanski Expelled From Motion Picture Academy
After Bill Cosby was convicted of assaulting a woman, the academy issued a statement saying both he and director Roman Polanski would be expelled for violating the organization's standards of conduct.
Motion Picture Academy Expels Bill Cosby And Roman Polanski
Despite a statutory rape conviction, Polanski has been nominated for three Academy Awards. He won the best director award in 2003 for his film The Pianist.
'Overboard': A Gender-Flipped Remake Stays Afloat
Critic Scott Tobias says the updated Anna Faris/Eugenio Derbez take on the 1987 comedy is "not a particularly funny film, but it's big-hearted and sincere, with fine chemistry between the two leads."
In 'Tully,' Charlize Theron And Mackenzie Davis Make A Great (Au) Pair
Director Jason Reitman re-teams with Juno scripter Diablo Cody for a film about an overburdened mother and her nanny that's "a little bit funny, a bigger bit cruel, and with it all, oddly moving."
'Rachel Divide' Director Says Dolezal 'Has Remained Resolute'
In 2015, Rachel Dolezal became a walking Rorschach test for America's racial dysfunction. A new Netflix documentary explores what happened to Dolezal after the initial furor died down.
Ashley Judd Sues Harvey Weinstein, Saying He Tried To Damage Her Career
The 50-year-old actress said that after she rebuffed the producer's sexual advances, he badmouthed her to the filmmaker of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, costing her a prime role.,