Movies

Encore: Tom Shales' 1977 review of the new movie 'Star Wars'

5:10am May 04, 2022

On this May the 4th, now known as Star Wars Day, we listen back to an original NPR review of the now beloved classic. In 1977, Tom Shales reviewed the new film Star Wars for NPR.

Encore: Movie theater owners are optimistic big audiences will return

7:39am May 03, 2022

by John Horn

Movie theater owners from across the country gathered in Las Vegas to strategize about how they can get audiences back in front of their big screens. (Story first aired on ATC on April 30, 2022.)

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What makes a good movie sequel?

6:20am May 03, 2022

As multiple movie sequels come out this year, Vulture recently ranked the 101 best movie sequels ever made. NPR's A Martinez talks to TV and film critic Matt Zoller Seitz who contributed to the list

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Arts

Bill Murray says his behavior led to a complaint and a pause on 'Being Mortal'

9:35pm April 30, 2022

by The Associated Press

In his first comments about the halt of his latest film, the actor described the incident as a difference of opinion. "I did something I thought was funny and it wasn't taken that way," he said.

National

Movie theater owners are optimistic about an industry return at this year's CinemaCon

5:23pm April 30, 2022

by John Horn

Movie theater owners from around the country gathered in Las Vegas this week to strategize about how they can get audiences back in front of their big screens.

Filmmaker and author John Waters at his home in Baltimore. This year marks the 50th anniversary of his landmark film, Pink Flamingos, and he's releasing his first novel, Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance.

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Arts

A lot of material from this John Waters interview couldn't be published

9:40am April 30, 2022

by Andrew Limbong

It's been 50 years since the famed director released the movie Pink Flamingos. And as much as the world's changed since then, his first-ever novel shows that his propensity for bad taste ...hasn't.

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National

Netflix promised good jobs at Tudum. Now, one of its teams has been laid off

8:14pm April 29, 2022

by Mandalit del Barco

Yesterday, Netflix laid off some of its staff, many of them recently hired women of color. They were working on its new fan-focused website.

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Arts

What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, reading and listening

8:00pm April 29, 2022

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Bob Odenkirk's memoir, the guy collecting every Gap store playlist ever made and more.

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In Hanna Bergholm's new horror film, a girl's adolescence is 'Hatching'

4:42pm April 29, 2022

NPR's Rob Schmitz talks with Hanna Bergholm, the director of the new horror movie 'Hatching,' in which a girl finds a mysterious egg in the woods and nurtures it until it hatches.

One of the dresses from 'The Wizard of Oz' is up for auction

6:31am April 29, 2022

For decades, a version of the dress Judy Garland wore in the movie was assumed lost at Catholic University of America, where it had been given to someone in the drama department in the early 1970s.