After the Sept. 11 attacks, Michelle Buteau decided: ‘I better start living’
Buteau says covering the news of the 2001 terrorist attacks crystalized her desire to go into comedy. She stars in the film Babes and in the Netflix series Survival of the Thickest.
Ghanaian artist Blitz Bazawule breaks down doors
Bazawule is best known for directing the 2023 adaptation of The Color Purple: The Musical. He also co-directed Black Is King with Beyoncé. His new exhibit of paintings is about growing up in Ghana.
This time last year, Hollywood writers were on strike. Now, many can’t find work
The entertainment industry was shifting dramatically even before the strikes that paused production last year. Now, many Hollywood writers are feeling the pinch.
‘Inside Out 2’ scores $100 million in its second weekend, setting records
In just a week and a half, Inside Out 2 has become 2024’s highest-grossing film to date, surpassing Dune: Part Two. Inside Out 2 will likely blow through the $1 billion mark in about a week.
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.
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