Actor Fred Ward dies. He had the right stuff in movies from ‘Tremors’ to ‘The Player’
Ward died on Sunday at age 79.
Netflix alters corporate culture memo to stress the importance of artistic freedom
In a substantive edit to Netflix’s public-facing statement on work culture, the company states that employees might have to work on titles they “perceive to be harmful.”
‘Pleasure’: A young woman’s matter-of-fact pursuit of porn stardom
Ninja Thyberg’s film about an aspiring porn star challenges conventional wisdom around sex work and women’s agency.
Film Prize Junior movie winners are picked from 60 entrants
Film Prize Junior says it’s the largest student film festival in the South. The Louisiana-based program expanded to New Mexico, where judges picked from movies made by middle and high school students.
‘In Between Girl’ navigates the gray areas of growing up
Ayesha Rascoe speaks with writer and director Mei Makino about her new coming-of-age film called ‘In Between Girl.’
A timely new HBO doc chronicles a secret group of women who provided abortions
A new documentary tells the story of “The Jane Collective,” a group that helped women with nowhere else to turn for a safe abortion, in the days before Roe v. Wade.
A millionaire wanted to give away his money. ‘Dear Mr. Brody’ shows how it went awry
Scott Simon speaks with Keith Maitland, director of the documentary “Dear Mr. Brody,” about a young millionaire who pledged to give his fortune away in 1970.
‘Happening’ takes place in France in the 1960s, but speaks to this particular moment
A college student in 1960s France encounters difficulties in seeking an abortion that feel very of-this-moment in Audrey Diwan’s timely drama Happening.
Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’ is all over the place
The latest MCU film is at its best when director Sam Raimi leans into its horror elements, and at its weakest when it coasts on cameos and callbacks from a now-diffuse network of Marvel properties.
Review: Doctor Strange and the Scarlet Witch take on the ‘Multiverse of Madness’
After unleashing all kinds of trouble in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Marvel’s Doctor Strange will try to clean up the mess in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
On May the 4th, let’s remember the time NPR had a ‘Star Wars’ radio drama
Some of you may have forgotten (and some might not even know) that the network created three radio dramas based on George Lucas’ original three movies.
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