Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Detroit'
With its intense and unsettling depictions of police brutality in the summer of 1967, Detroit got under the panel's skin in different ways.
Movies
Haruo Nakajima, The Original Godzilla Actor, Dies
Nakajima played the iconic giant reptile in a dozen films, donning the suit that he says weighed about 220 pounds and wreaking havoc on model cities and rival monsters. He was 88.
'Wonder Woman' Continues Hot Streak In Mediocre Summer For Hollywood
Wonder Woman continues to make progress at the box office in a summer dotted with hits and misses. While most movies stay in theaters for two weeks, Wonder Woman is still playing in more than 1,000 theaters after 10 weeks.
Albert Brooks' 'Lost in America' Remains Piercingly Relevant 32 Years Later
Newly released on DVD and Blu-ray, the 1985 film follows a well-heeled LA couple who decide to become free-spirited wanderers. Critic John Powers says Lost In America is a comedy for the ages.
'Icarus' Filmmaker Talks Stumbling On International Doping Scandal
Amateur cyclist Bryan Fogel set out to make a film about doping in international sports. What he found was an international scandal over a state-run Russian doping program, with links to the Russian government.
Not My Job: Jeffrey Tambor Gets Quizzed On The Timber Industry
Tambor's memoir, Are You Anybody?, is about his life as an actor. We'll make him play a game called "TAMBOOOOOOOORRRRR!" ... which has absolutely nothing to do with acting.
Fresh Air Remembers Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright And Actor Sam Shepard
Shepard, who died Sunday, penned more than 55 plays, including Buried Child. His breakthrough film role was as astronaut Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff. Originally broadcast in 1998.
John Cho On Acting And 'Columbus'
Actor John Cho talks about his new film, Columbus, where he takes on a new character trait: subtlety. He tells NPR's David Greene that this role allowed him to explore a Korean-American character.
When Sex Becomes A Grind(r): '4 Days In France'
A gay man saunters through the French countryside, pursued by his lover, in this loose meditation on the perks and pitfalls of hooking up.
Slick, Speedy And Ultra-Violent '68 Kill' Leaves A Bitter Aftertaste
Many noir thrillers play with misogynistic ideas, but "68 Kill keeps the hostility and loses the self-deprecation, which turns it into an example of misogyny rather than an examination of it."