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Chadwick Boseman, ‘Black Panther’ Star, Dies Of Cancer At 43

Actor Chadwick Boseman has died of cancer. He played James Brown, Jackie Robinson and Thurgood Marshall, but may have been best known for starring in Marvel’s Black Panther.

‘Bill & Ted Face The Music,’ And They Make For Good Home Viewing

It might not be a great film, but the nostalgic draw of the guileless Bill S. Preston Esquire and Ted “Theodore” Logan has never been stronger.

More Persuasively Dickensian: ‘The Personal History Of David Copperfield’ Reviewed

Satirist, director and the creator of Veep, Armando Iannucci does Charles Dickens in The Personal History Of David Copperfield. And NPR’s critic says there’s a lot that’s unexpected in the movie.

‘Class Action Park’ Remembers The Perils Of A Really Good Time

The documentary Class Action Park tells the story of a New Jersey theme park that was widely beloved, successful and extremely dangerous.

Bill & Ted Face the Music

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Armando Iannucci On His New Film Retelling Classic ‘David Copperfield’ Story

NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with director Armando Iannucci about his film, The Personal History of David Copperfield, based on the Charles Dickens classic. The movie debuts in the U.S. on August 28.

U.S. Movie Theaters Say It’s Safe To Watch A Film: How About ‘Unhinged’?

The new Russell Crowe film is out and a theater owners’ group launches a public awareness campaign dubbed “CinemaSafe,” meant to ease moviegoer’s coronavirus fears.

Documentary Chronicles Students’ Fight For Black Rights During ‘Freedom Summer’

Freedom Summer, now streaming on PBS, focuses on the 1964 movement to get Black people to vote in Mississippi. Director Stanley Nelson and organizer Charles Cobb discussed the film in 2014.

Wild And Daring, ‘Tesla’ Captures The Spirit Of An Unorthodox Inventor

Ethan Hawke plays the famed Serbian American inventor in a new film that reminds us what a modern creature Tesla was — a figure from the past who never stopped pointing the way to the future.

‘Tesla’: A Movie About An Underrated Genius Who Challenged Edison

Tesla is a thoroughly eccentric biopic starring Ethan Hawke as the electrical engineer Nikola Tesla, a rival of Thomas Edison’s.

There’s A Better Way To ‘Dub’ Movie Audio For Visually Impaired Fans

Most non-English films made outside the U.S. are inaccessible to many of the 26.9 million visually impaired Americans. “Dubbing just tells us the dialogue,” one disability rights activist explains.

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