Movie Interviews

Ali Wong and Randall Park say that Always Be My Maybe has long been in the works as their original spin on When Harry Met Sally.

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Ali Wong And Randall Park On Rapping, Rom-Com Tropes And (Keanu) Reeves

8:44am June 09, 2019

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

The stars and creators of Always Be My Maybe, a romantic comedy with a mostly Asian American cast, brought elements of their own California childhoods into their new film.

Alec Baldwin plays the controversial automaker in the new film Framing John DeLorean. "I think that John was a narcissistic and overreaching Type A guy," Baldwin says. "He was one of those guys that wanted to have his own thing."

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As John DeLorean, Alec Baldwin Revisits The Past Of A Car Made For The Future

2:55pm June 04, 2019

by Steve Inskeep

The new film Framing John DeLorean explores the life and career of the controversial automaker. Baldwin believes DeLorean was a "tragic figure" and wonders about "what might have been."

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Taron Egerton stars as Elton John in Rocketman.

The 'Nuanced, Complex Journey' Of Becoming Elton John

12:10pm June 02, 2019

Rocketman star Taron Egerton and director Dexter Fletcher speak with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about memorializing Elton John while he's still here, the film's most meaningful scenes and more.

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'Qualified' Documents Indy 500 Trailblazer Janet Guthrie's Roadblocks In Male-Dominated Sport

5:27pm June 01, 2019

Retired race car driver Janet Guthrie was the first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500. NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Guthrie and filmmaker Jenna Ricker about the new documentary, Qualified.

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Caleel Harris plays Antron McCray in Ava DuVernay's Netflix miniseries, When They See Us. "He was a part of a gorgeous small family unit — his mother, his father, and himself — living in Harlem," DuVernay says. "He had dreams of being a baseball playe

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Ava DuVernay Hopes You Hear 'The Heartbeat Of The Boys' In Central Park 5

5:03am May 31, 2019

by Noel King

In her Netflix mini-series When They See Us, DuVernay tells the story of five innocent teens who were pressured into falsely confessing to the 1989 assault and rape of a white jogger in Central Park.

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Beanie Feldstein, left, and Kaitlyn Dever, play Molly and Amy, two star students who decide they need to cram four years of high school partying into one night in Booksmart.

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'Booksmart' Director Olivia Wilde: Teen Movies 'Made Me Excited To Be Young'

6:13pm May 24, 2019

by Mary Louise Kelly

Wilde says her directorial debut is a "love letter" to the '80s and '90s movies that defined her adolescence. She hopes this film will help Generation Z "celebrate being young."

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Amy Poehler (center) is the director and producer of Wine Country and stars in the film along with friends Paula Pell (left) and Rachel Dratch.

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Amy Poehler Leads A Girls' Trip With 'Some Of The Funniest People In The World'

11:21am May 24, 2019

by Rachel Martin

For Rachel Dratch's 50th birthday, Poehler gathered her friends and fellow SNL alumni for a vacation to Napa Valley. For her directorial debut Wine Country, she basically did the same thing.

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In Nailed It, director Adele Free Pham — whose father is a refugee from Vietnam — explores how Vietnamese entrepreneurs came to dominate the nail salon business in the U.S.

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How Vietnamese Americans Took Over The Nails Business: A Documentary

8:40am May 19, 2019

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

If you got a manicure lately, chances are your nail salon was run by Vietnamese entrepreneurs. In Nailed It, director Adele Free Pham investigates how refugees built a multi-billion dollar industry.

Natasha (Yara Shahidi) and Daniel (Charles Melton) fall in love over the course of a single day in the film adaptation of Nicola Yoon's young adult romance novel The Sun Is Also a Star.

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'Love Is A Thing That Everyone Wants,' Says Author Of 'The Sun Is Also A Star'

9:10am May 17, 2019

by CHRISTABEL NSIAH-BUADI

A Jamaican teen threatened with deportation falls in love over the course of a single day in the film adaptation of Nicola Yoon's bestselling young adult romance novel.

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'Fresh Air' Remembers Hollywood Legend Doris Day

1:33pm May 15, 2019

by Terry Gross

The singer and actor, who died May 12, made nearly 40 movies over the course of her career. In 1968, Day walked away from performing and began rescuing animals. Originally broadcast in 2012.

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