Years before intimacy coordinators on Hollywood sets, there was the 1996 film Bound
The 1996 film neo-noir thriller “Bound” pushed boundaries in its portrayals of sex and gender on screen. It was re-issued as part of the Criterion Collection this past week.
Austin Butler on ‘The Bikeriders’
NPR’s Don Gonyea speaks with actor Austin Butler about the new movie “The Bikeriders,” which follows a motorcycle club outside Chicago in the 1960s.
Yorgos Lanthimos exhausts his ideas, and his audience, in ‘Kinds of Kindness’
Fresh off of Poor Things, director Lanthimos’ three-part dark comedy about domination and free will feels like a lazy and self-admiring riff — punctuated by the occasional crude shock.
June Squibb’s ‘Thelma’ is the wrong grandma to mess with
Financial scams are an unfortunate phenomenon, but what happens when a fraudster messes with the wrong grandma? The very fun action-comedy Thelma imagines exactly this scenario. The movie stars June Squibb as a woman scammed by someone pretending to be…
Donald Sutherland, a subtle and sardonic star, has died at 88
The actor appeared in hundreds of films and shows, including M*A*S*H, Klute, Ordinary People and the Hunger Games franchise. He was best known for playing off-kilter authority figures.
Documentary unspools the story behind Diane von Furstenberg’s iconic wrap dress
Von Furstenberg and filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy teamed up to produce Woman in Charge, a Hulu documentary about the fashion designer’s meteoric rise in the ’70s.
A new documentary tracks tennis legend Roger Federer’s last days on the court
Tennis great Roger Federer won 20 grand slam titles — and at 41, he announced his retirement. NPR’s A Martinez talks to the co-directors of the documentary “Twelve Final Days” about Roger Federer.
‘Green Border’ is the strongest movie this critic has seen all year
Agnieszka Holland’s film, which won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, centers on a refugee family trying to escape to Western Europe and the people who try to help and stop them.
‘Laughter is disarming’: A new documentary traces generations of LGBTQ comedy
The new Netflix documentary Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution features interviews with dozens of gay and trans comics, archival footage and lots of jokes.
Netflix’s ‘Black Barbie’ explores the creation of a doll that impacted generations
A new documentary on Netflix tells the story of the first Black Barbie doll. The doll arrived in 1980 — more than two decades after the 1959 launch of the first Barbie.
In ‘Ghostlife’, a real-life family plays their reel selves
NPR’s Lauren Frayer speaks with actors Keith Kupferer, Tara Mallen and Katherine Mallen Kupferer, a real family of actors, about playing a fictional family in the new movie “Ghostlight.”
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