Movies

Documentary Honors Civil Rights Leader Rep. John Lewis

6:42pm July 20, 2020

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to actress Erika Alexander, co-founder of Color Farm Media and producer of John Lewis: Good Trouble, about the late Georgia congressman's civil rights legacy.

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Charlize Theron Reflects On Growing Up In South Africa During The Apartheid Era

12:04pm July 18, 2020

by Terry Gross

"This climate that we're in right now with our polarizing political views in this country, it was very similar in South Africa," the star of The Old Guard says. Originally broadcast Dec. 16, 2019.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda and members of the hip-hop group Freestyle Love Supreme perform at the Greenwich House Theater.

'We Are Freestyle Love Supreme' Is An Accidental 'Hamilton' Cast Origin Story

10:12am July 18, 2020

A new documentary catalogs the rise of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Christopher Jackson and other members of the hip-hop group Freestyle Love Supreme in the mid-2000s before they became famous on Broadway.

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Evan Rachel Wood is one of the interview subjects in the new documentary Showbiz Kids.

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'Showbiz Kids' Gives Child Actors The Chance To Tell Their Own Stories

9:00am July 18, 2020

by Linda Holmes

In a new HBO documentary, current and former child actors from Wil Wheaton to Todd Bridges to Evan Rachel Wood talk about abuse, money, work and finding your way as an adult.

Lake From 'Dirty Dancing' Rising Again After More Than A Decade After It Dried Up

5:34am July 15, 2020

The lake in Pembroke, Virginia where Patrick Swayze lifted Jennifer Grey into the air in Dirty Dancing dried up after the movie came out. Now, 12 years later, it is filling up with water again.

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'Palm Springs' Romantic Comedy Is A Total Winner For The Lockdown Era

1:56pm July 14, 2020

by Justin Chang

Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti play misfit wedding guests who are forced to repeat the same day over and over again in a fiendishly clever comedy reminiscent of Groundhog Day.

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Bollywood Star, Big B As He's Known, Contracts Coronavirus

5:58am July 14, 2020

by Lauren Frayer

Temples in India are offering special prayers for Bollywood's most famous actor Amitabh Bachchan. The 77-year-old is hospitalized in Mumbai with COVID-19.

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Actress Kelly Preston with her husband, John Travolta, at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018. The actress died after a two-year fight with breast cancer.

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Kelly Preston, Actress And Wife Of John Travolta, Dead At 57

12:33pm July 13, 2020

by Andrew Limbong

Preston died after a two-year battle with breast cancer. She acted in various TV shows but rose to fame after her role in the 1988 Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito comedy, Twins.

Comedian Chelsea Handler On White Privilege

6:12am July 13, 2020

by Sam Sanders

Last year, Chelsea Handler made a Netflix documentary called Hello, Privilege. It's Me, Chelsea, in which she explored white privilege. She asks how to be a better white person to people of color.

Paris Takes Drive-In Theaters To The Next Level During Pandemic

6:00am July 13, 2020

Friday is the premiere of a float-in theater. People can sit in boats on the Seine, watching a floating big screen. They'll watch a French comedy about men who start a synchronized swimming team.

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