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What happens when a director’s camera is pointed at their own families?

Over the years, documentaries about celebrities have proven to be the most popular films of the genre. But some filmmakers are facing unfamiliar territory when their families are involved.

A peek at some of the movies coming out this spring

Hollywood generally takes a breather in January and February, but here’s a selective peek at the laughs, tears and action Hollywood has in store before Memorial Day.

New Mexico prosecutors downgrade charges against Alec Baldwin in the ‘Rust’ shooting

The actor’s lawyers argued that he had been charged under a previous version of a New Mexico firearm law. The change would reduce his prison time if convicted in the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins.

Richard Belzer, stand-up comic and TV detective, dies at 78

Belzer was one of TV’s most indelible detectives as John Munch in Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: SVU.

‘Return to Seoul’ is about reinvention, not resolution

This is a film that’s easy to love: It has a killer soundtrack, a magnetic protagonist and a gorgeous cinematic backdrop. It’s a coming of age story that contemplates the impermanence of who we are.

23 years after its release, ‘Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon’ is back in theaters

NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with author and culture critic Jeff Yang about the re-release of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 23 years after it first hit theaters.

From ‘Dreamgirls’ to ‘Abbot Elementary,’ Sheryl Lee Ralph isn’t leaving the spotlight

NPR’s Juana Summers talks with Abbot Elementary’s Sheryl Lee Ralph about her lengthy career and finding a spotlight later in life.

‘El Juicio’ detalla el régimen de terror de la dictadura argentina 1976-’83

Cuarenta años después de la caída de la dictadura militar argentina que torturó y asesinó a miles de civiles, se muestra una grabación del juicio de los militares responsables por primera vez.

‘El Juicio (The Trial)’ details the 1976-’83 Argentine dictatorship’s reign of terror

Forty years after the fall of an Argentine military dictatorship that tortured and murdered tens of thousands of civilians, a video record of its trial will be shown to the public for the first time.

‘Emily’ imagines Brontë before ‘Wuthering Heights’

A new film captures the complexity of family relationships by freely speculating about the lives of 19th-century English writer Emily Brontë and her siblings.

‘Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ launches a new villain in Marvel’s 31st movie

A big title for some very small superheroes — Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania — heralds the latest Marvel movie.

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