While Votes Are Counted, Discover What Movie Characters Count
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Vote counts are stressing out a lot of people, including critic Bob Mondello, who says he's distracting himself from election-related...
View ArticleHoliday Film Preview: What To Watch Now And What To Expect Next Year
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Hollywood's had a complicated year, and that has made looking ahead complicated, too. NPR's Bob Mondello usually does a year-end movie preview...
View ArticleRegina King Imagines What 4 Black Icons' Gathering In 1964 Might Have Looked...
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: It sounds like quite a party - four African American icons gathering after a heavyweight championship bout in 1964 - new champ Cassius...
View ArticleWhat 2020 Was Like For The Movie Industry
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: Hollywood has never had a year like 2020. Box office revenues are down 80%. And nine months after the pandemic closed the nation's cinemas,...
View ArticlePutting A Roof On Risk With A COVID-19 Vaccine Jab
It's 8:45 a.m. on a weekday in Washington, D.C., and if anyone needs a reminder why the coronavirus vaccine is important, there's one arriving at the Takoma Metro stop: an almost empty train pulling up...
View ArticleFarewell To Our Senior Arts Editor Tom Cole
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: That report was produced by NPR senior arts editor Tom Cole, which we would not normally mention, except Tom is retiring this week after...
View ArticleA Writer's Memoir About Her Clerical Job Becomes The Movie 'My Salinger Year'
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Every aspiring writer should be as lucky as Joanna Rakoff. She was able to turn the story of her first job into a memoir. Now that memoir has...
View ArticleCinerama Dome Among ArcLight, Pacific Theaters To Close Due To Pandemic Losses
ArcLight Cinemas and Pacific Theaters said late Monday they are ceasing operations, closing all of their roughly 300 screens mostly found in California. None has inspired more distress among Hollywood...
View ArticleIf Big Box Office Means Big Ratings, This Year's Oscars Are In Big Trouble
Oscar's box-office bounce this year is a resounding thud. Most awards seasons find film fans seeking out Best Picture nominees in the run-up to the Academy Awards telecast, with the eventual winner...
View ArticleAt This Year's Oscars, Diversity And Social Consciousness Go Hand-In-Hand
After years marked by the hashtags #OscarsSoWhite and #OscarsSoMale, industry observers are crowing over this year's topline numbers. For the first time in Academy Awards history, almost half the...
View ArticleSummer Movie Season Roars Back, From Action-Packed Blockbusters To Biopics
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Memorial Day weekend has traditionally kicked off Hollywood's summer blockbuster season. Now, not last year, of course, with the pandemic...
View ArticleReview: 'F9' Puts The Pedal To The Metal To Restart The Hollywood Blockbuster
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: A fast and presumably furious $212 million - that is what Vin Diesel and his hard-driving pals have made in China so far with their latest...
View Article'Ailey' Doc Shows How Alvin Ailey Changed The Landscape Of Dance For Dancers...
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: One of the most important choreographers of the 20th century, Alvin Ailey altered the landscape of dance, both for dancers of color and for...
View ArticleHow Movies Have Shaped The Perception Of 9/11
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Like being in a movie - that's a phrase so many people use to describe what happened on September 11, 2001. Critic Bob Mondello admits to...
View ArticleThe Best And Worst So Far From The Not-Very-Festive Toronto International...
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Close to 200 films in 10 days - we're talking about the Toronto International Film Festival. This festival is often a springboard for...
View ArticleMovie Review: 'The Harder They Fall'
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID FOLKENFLIK, HOST: Authorities in New Mexico are continuing to investigate the fatal shooting last week on the set of the Western movie "Rust." The shooting...
View ArticleFlashbacks to selling the scares for horrorthons
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Halloween is tomorrow, and NPR's movie critic Bob Mondello knows all about creating and critiquing scary make-believe worlds. But reviewing high-budget Hollywood films got him...
View ArticleKenneth Branagh's 'Belfast' shows the Troubles through the eyes of a 9-year-old
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: British actor and director Kenneth Branagh has played English kings and German SS officers, detectives both French and Swedish, a Danish prince...
View ArticleA peek at some of the 30 films that are opening this holiday season
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's taken a year and a half, but Hollywood is finally on a roll. Marvel superheroes, Ghostbusters, Disney animation, even the real-life...
View ArticleStephen Sondheim, American musical theater icon, has died at age 91
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A Broadway master has moved on. Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, the most respected figure in American musical theater, died earlier...
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