Movie Interviews

In the third and final season of Easy, a show about people whose lives are anything but, Michael Chernus and Elizabeth Reaser reprise their roles as a couple experimenting with an open marriage.

Arts

'Easy': How Director Joe Swanberg Improvised A TV Show

5:02am May 13, 2019

by David Greene

The creator of the Netflix anthology show, who is known for a naturalistic style of filmmaking often called mumblecore, says he envisions characters who are kind and generous — and beset by troubles.

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Music & Culture

With 'Poms,' Jacki Weaver Continues An Untraditional Hollywood Story

11:29am May 11, 2019

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to actor Jacki Weaver about her new film Poms, as well her breakthrough in Hollywood coming at the age of 63.

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'Someone Great,'A Modern Woman Rom-Com, Hits Netflix

5:41pm May 05, 2019

NPR's Aarti Shahani speaks with Jennifer Robinson, writer and director of the Netflix movie Someone Great.

Pitbull performs onstage at iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina in Miami, Fla. in 2018. Among his recent projects is voicing an animated one-eyed dog in UglyDolls.

'Short Steps, Long Vision': An Interview With Pitbull

9:11am May 05, 2019

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

His latest project sees him playing a blue one-eyed dog in the animated film UglyDolls. But for the Cuban-American rapper from Miami, it's only the latest in a series of big picture projects.

'Knock Down The House,' Follows 4 Female Political Insurgents Headed To Congress

5:28pm May 04, 2019

NPR's Michel Martin discusses the new Netflix documentary Knock Down the House with the director, Rachel Lears, and one of the Democratic primary candidates profiled in the film, Cori Bush.

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'Fresh Air' Remembers 'Boyz N The Hood' Director John Singleton

1:25pm May 03, 2019

by Terry Gross

Singleton, who died April 29, spoke to Fresh Air in 1991 about his semi-autobiographical movie, which centered on kids growing up surrounded by drug addiction and gang violence in South Central L.A.

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Gary Carr stars as Charles "Buddy" Bolden in the jazz biopic Bolden: Where The Music Began, in theaters Friday.

Music & Culture

Wynton Marsalis Imagines Buddy Bolden's Jazz On-Screen: 'He Was Bringing Fire'

6:37pm May 02, 2019

Decorated jazz composer Wynton Marsalis talks about creating music inspired by an artist he's never heard play, Charles "Buddy" Bolden, for the film Bolden.

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Filmmaker And Satanic Temple Leader Talk New Documentary 'Hail Satan?'

5:14pm April 27, 2019

Hail Satan? is a new documentary that follows the rise of the Satanic Temple. NPR's Michel Martin discusses the film with director Penny Lane and the co-founder of the Satanic Temple, Lucien Greaves.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars as Ruth, a woman who must learn to harness her inherited supernatural powers, in Fast Color.

Arts

'Fast Color' Celebrates A Supermom Who Literally Moves Heaven And Earth

6:13pm April 19, 2019

by Ailsa Chang

Moms perform heroic tasks every day, but they rarely get portrayed as superheroes. Fast Color tells the story of three generations of black women and the supernatural powers they inherit.

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Elisabeth Moss plays Becky Something, a punk singer struggling with substance abuse, in the new film Her Smell. "It was the hardest dialogue I've ever had to learn," she says.

In 'Her Smell,' Elisabeth Moss 'Turned It Up To 11,' Then Turned It Up Some More

10:18am April 19, 2019

by Rachel Martin

In her new film, Moss plays a punk singer struggling with addiction. "The only mistake we could make was not going far enough," she says.

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