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Zootopia's first bunny officer Judy Hopps finds herself face to face with a fast-talking, scam-artist fox in Zootopia. Featuring the voices of Ginnifer Goodwin as Judy and Jason Bateman as Nick.

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'Zootopia': A Nimble Tale Of Animal Instincts And Smart Bunnies

11:00am March 04, 2016

by Andrew Lapin

Disney's latest talking-animal picture is a surprisingly deft film about prejudice and divisiveness that manages to avoid the heaviness that delivering a message can bring about.

The Outlaw (1943) was condemned by the Catholic Legion of Decency because Jane Russell's blouse kept falling off her shoulders.

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C Is For 'Condemned': A Nun Looks Back On 47 Years Of Unholy Filmmaking

10:32am March 04, 2016

by Beth Accomando

A new Turner Classic Movies series honors films that were deemed salacious, immoral or downright lewd by the Catholic Legion of Decency. Condemned is hosted by respected critic Sister Rose Pacatte.

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Christian Bale stars as Rick and Natalie Portman as Elizabeth in Terrence Malick's drama Knight of Cups.

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More Literary Whispers And Another Quest In Malick's 'Knight'

10:30am March 04, 2016

by Mark Jenkins

Enigmatic writer-director Terrence Malick returns with Knight Of Cups, which bears a strong resemblance to his last two films, Tree Of Life and To The Wonder.

Jenjira, a volunteer watches over Itt, a handsome soldier with a mysterious sleeping illness in Cemetery of Splendor.

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The Ordinary World Shares Space With Ghosts, Spirits And 'Splendor'

10:30am March 04, 2016

by Ella Taylor

Cemetery Of Splendor, the latest from Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, beautiful imagery accompanies a story of believers and the healing of mysteriously sleeping soldiers.

Zootopia takes on social annoyances in a way that will convince the older folks to stick around.

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'Zootopia' Makes A Pitch For A More Paw-fect Union Without Being Preachy

10:00am March 04, 2016

by Bob Mondello

Zootopia exists in a world where lions and lambs get along just fine. NPR film critic Bob Mondello says it avoids being a lecture and ends up one of the more amusing kid flicks out there.

Historian Yuval Harari speaking at TEDGlobalLondon.

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Why Did Humans Become The Most Successful Species On Earth?

9:53am March 04, 2016

by NPR/TED Staff

Historian Yuval Harari explains how human imagination powered the growth and spread of homo sapiens around the world.

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What Makes An Idea Go Viral?

9:51am March 04, 2016

by NPR/TED Staff

Entrepreneur and blogger Seth Godin describes how the marketing of ideas has changed since the invention of sliced bread, as well as the type of ideas that stick in consumer's minds.

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Signs warn not to drink the lead-contaminated water from a water fountain in Flint, Mich.

America's 'Lead Wars' Go Beyond Flint, Mich.: 'It's Now Really Everywhere'

5:39pm March 03, 2016

David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz chronicle America's poisonous relationship with lead in Lead Wars. "We've created a terribly toxic environment in all sorts of ways," Rosner says.

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Surrey NanoSystems, the U.K. company that makes Vantablack, describes it as "a functionalised 'forest' of millions upon millions of incredibly small tubes made of carbon, or carbon nanotubes."

Arts

Some Artists Are Seeing Red Over A New 'Black'

5:19pm March 03, 2016

by Elizabeth Blair

It's not a paint or a pigment. It's not even really black. But the "material" known as Vantablack is causing a stir after renowned sculptor Anish Kapoor bought exclusive rights to use it in art.

Trump: The Reality TV Years

5:01pm March 03, 2016

by Linda Holmes

Before Donald Trump was a presidential candidate, he spent many, many seasons headlining the show The Apprentice, where he was presented as the embodiment of success and an enemy of weakness.