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'Tenet' Opens Internationally. Will Be Shown In Select U.S. Cities Next Month

5:56am August 26, 2020

by Mandalit del Barco

The sci-fi thriller Tenet was originally slated to open in July, but the studio repeatedly rescheduled the film's release while the coronavirus pandemic shuttered cinemas around the globe.

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'The Brink' Director On Steve Bannon Indictment

5:13pm August 23, 2020

Following the indictment of former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Alison Klayman, director of a documentary that follows Bannon's exploits in far-right fundraising.

Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves are back as everyone's favorite dim-witted would-be rock stars, Bill S. Preston, Esq., and Ted "Theodore" Logan.

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Not Heinous At All: Bill And Ted Are Back To 'Face The Music'

7:49am August 23, 2020

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Thirty years after they befriended Napoleon and beat the Grim Reaper in a game of Battleship, Bill S. Preston (Esq.) and Ted "Theodore" Logan are back — older, but not necessarily any wiser.

Health & Safety

U.S. Movie Theaters Say It's Safe To Watch A Film: How About 'Unhinged'?

10:39pm August 21, 2020

by Mandalit del Barco

The new Russell Crowe film is out and a theater owners' group launches a public awareness campaign dubbed "CinemaSafe," meant to ease moviegoer's coronavirus fears.

Arts

Documentary Chronicles Students' Fight For Black Rights During 'Freedom Summer'

1:20pm August 21, 2020

by Terry Gross

Freedom Summer, now streaming on PBS, focuses on the 1964 movement to get Black people to vote in Mississippi. Director Stanley Nelson and organizer Charles Cobb discussed the film in 2014.

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Ethan Hawke plays Serbian American inventor Nikola Tesla in the playful new biopic, Tesla.

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Wild And Daring, 'Tesla' Captures The Spirit Of An Unorthodox Inventor

1:20pm August 21, 2020

by Justin Chang

Ethan Hawke plays the famed Serbian American inventor in a new film that reminds us what a modern creature Tesla was — a figure from the past who never stopped pointing the way to the future.

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'Tesla': A Movie About An Underrated Genius Who Challenged Edison

4:05pm August 20, 2020

by Bob Mondello

Tesla is a thoroughly eccentric biopic starring Ethan Hawke as the electrical engineer Nikola Tesla, a rival of Thomas Edison's.

The new documentary Coup 53 tells the backstory of the ouster of Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iran's elected prime minister.

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'Coup 53' Tells The Story Of A 1953 Campaign By MI6 And The CIA To Oust Iran's Leader

11:17am August 19, 2020

by John Powers

A new documentary shows how the CIA and Britain's MI6 engineered the forcible removal of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. The 1953 coup continues to rattle history to this day.

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Actors Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in a scene from Marriage Story. The award-winning 2019 film can be watched with audio description that conveys scenes to viewers who are visually impaired. But Parasite, another popular award-winner, has not inclu

There's A Better Way To 'Dub' Movie Audio For Visually Impaired Fans

8:57am August 19, 2020

by Jason Strother

Most non-English films made outside the U.S. are inaccessible to many of the 26.9 million visually impaired Americans. "Dubbing just tells us the dialogue," one disability rights activist explains.

Russell Crowe plays a man who hunts down a woman who honks and passes him at a traffic stop in Unhinged.

Arts

'We'll Find Out If We're Geniuses Or Idiots': 'Unhinged' To Open In Theaters

6:31am August 18, 2020

by Mandalit del Barco

Unhinged, a road rage movie starring Russell Crowe, will be the first new movie to open nationally in theaters since the coronavirus pandemic began.

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