Chloé Zhao on directing her 1st Marvel movie
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao about her new movie, Eternals, and the way she approached making her first Marvel film.
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Dwayne Johnson vows to stop using real guns in film projects after 'Rust' tragedy
The actor said his production company decided to make the switch to rubber guns after the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the Rust movie set last month.
Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana? A nervy gamble pays off in 'Spencer'
Stewart doesn't go easy on Diana, but there's an underlying compassion that never wavers as we follow the Princess of Wales during an especially miserable stretch of her famously unhappy marriage.
British actor Terence Stamp reflects on London in the swinging '60s
Stamp is currently playing the Silver Haired Gentleman in the film Last Night in Soho, which is partly set in 1960s London. It's a period he knows well. Originally broadcast in 2002.
Sincerity, diversity and a little realism make 'Eternals' a new type of Marvel movie
The latest Marvel movie Eternals boasts an Oscar-winning director, Chloe Zhao, and introduces a gaggle of unfamiliar superheroes.
Paul McCartney knew he'd never top The Beatles — and that's just fine with him
The forthcoming documentary Get Back revisits The Beatles' final days together. McCartney says he took the band's breakup hard: "It was quite difficult, because I didn't know what to do at all."
Film workers have been fighting for safe sets for decades. Here's one of the barriers
The Rust shooting has put a new focus on film set safety. Behind-the-scenes workers have spent decades organizing behind policies that would make sets safer, but obstacles have stood in their way.
In 'Spencer,' Kristen Stewart's Princess Diana grasps for reality in order to survive
The new film Spencer is not a Princess Diana biopic. It is, instead, an attempt to put her in a different cultural context by putting her in a different kind of film.
'The Souvenir Part II' is a near-perfect sequel about loss and art
Filmmaker Joanna Hogg conceived her 2019 semi-autobiographical drama The Souvenir as a two-part work. The second installment is a wonderfully generous movie, sardonic in tone but rich in emotion.
Edgar Wright tells a different kind of ghost story in 'Last Night in Soho'
Wright's new movie centers on a young woman who is transported in her dreams into the swinging '60s of London: "The film is sort of about having nostalgia for a decade that you never lived in."