The Oscar nominees for best original film score
Host Scott Detrow hears about the Academy Award nominees for best original film score.
Confessions of a continuity cop
You know that scene in Pretty Woman when Julia Roberts is eating a croissant that is suddenly a pancake? Continuity issues like that crop up all the time. Whether you let it distract you is your call.
Paul Giamatti’s own high school years came in handy in ‘The Holdovers’
Giamatti is nominated for an Oscar for his role as a pompous boarding school teacher who’s assigned to supervise a student who has nowhere to go over winter break. Originally broadcast Jan. 10, 2024.
There’s a new ‘Climate Reality Check’ test — these 3 Oscar-nominated features passed
Does climate change exist? And does a character know it? Barbie, Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One and Nyad met the criteria for a new challenge inspired by the famous Bechdel Test.
Staggering action sequences can’t help ‘Dune: Part Two’ sustain a sense of awe
Dune: Part Two is a more exciting and eventful journey than Dune: Part One. But even here, the high points are over too soon, and the movie quickly moves on.
The 2nd part of the sci-fi epic ‘Dune’ thunders into movie theaters
After successfully adapting the first half of Frank Herbert’s “unfilmable” book, director Denis Villeneuve returns to Arrakis with a star-studded cast for the second part of Dune.
And the Oscar for best picture doesn’t go to … horror!
It’s been more than 30 years since a horror movie won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Should the Oscars rethink its approach?
‘Dune: Part Two’ is a grand spice-opera
Dune: Part Two is a sweeping, soaring space epic and this year’s first big movie. Starring Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, and directed by Denis Villeneuve, the film delivers plenty of spaceships and big explosions like any good sci-fi blockbuster shoul…
50 years ago, ‘Blazing Saddles’ broke wind — and box office expectations
Mel Brooks’ satirical Western got mixed reviews when it opened in February 1974, but it became the year’s biggest box office hit.
Storyboarding ‘Dune’ since he was 13, Denis Villeneuve is ‘still pinching’ himself
Villeneuve remembers watching the 1984 movie version of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel Dune and thinking, “Someday, someone else will do it again” — not realizing he would be that filmmaker.
After seeing OpenAI’s Sora, Tyler Perry says jobs are going to be lost
The text-to-video model Sora stunned observers with its cinematic video outputs. NPR’s Michel Martin talks to Alex Weprin of The Hollywood Reporter about why the entertainment industry is nervous.
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