Movies

Here's Danny! Ewan McGregor stars as the grown-up Danny Torrance in Doctor Sleep.

Arts

'Doctor Sleep' Is Haunted By The Ghost Of Stanley Kubrick

5:00pm November 07, 2019

by Scott Tobias

Mike Flanagan directs a meandering, imitative sequel to both the Stephen King book and the Stanley Kubrick movie, The Shining; its nonhorror elements prove more persuasive than its scares.

Dick (Ed Skrein, left) and Ann (Mandy Moore, right) part ways in Midway.

Arts

A Middling 'Midway'

5:00pm November 07, 2019

by Chris Klimek

Roland Emmerich's CGI-heavy depiction of the WWII battle that turned the tide in the Pacific isn't boring, but it's familiar beats ensure it's more a movie about war movies than it is about war.

Shia LaBeouf's 'Honey Boy' Centers On A Character Much Like Himself

4:30pm November 07, 2019

by Bob Mondello

Shia LaBeouf wrote and more or less lived Honey Boy's story of a child actor who develops anger issues living with his alcoholic dad.

Edward Norton Masterclass - 14th Rome Film Fest 2019

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A Film Grows In Edward Norton's 'Motherless Brooklyn'

1:21pm November 06, 2019

The writer, director, and lead actor of the film "Motherless Brooklyn" joins us.

Nigerian Film, 'Lionheart,' Disqualified From Oscar Contention

7:45am November 06, 2019

by Mandalit del Barco

The drama Lionheart is the first film Nigeria has submitted for consideration for an Academy Award. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences disqualified it because it's in English.

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In Bong Joon-ho's movie Parasite, the Kim family — which assembles pizza boxes to get by — resides in a semi-basement apartment originally constructed as a nuclear-fallout bunker.

Arts

The Hit Movie 'Parasite' Puts Basement Structures In Structural Inequality

4:43pm November 05, 2019

by Neda Ulaby

In the South Korean film, architecture is a symbol of class conflict. Director Bong Joon-ho knows that mansions are all over — but a certain humble subterranean apartment is particular to Seoul.

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'Farming' Director's Journey Into A White Supremacist Group As A Nigerian Boy

5:24pm November 03, 2019

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to director Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. His new movie Farming is about a Nigerian boy who joined a British white supremacist group.

Emilia Clarke plays Kate, who works in a year-round Christmas goods store, in Last Christmas, directed by Paul Feig.

Arts

Emilia Clarke On 'Last Christmas,' Brexit And Life After 'Game Of Thrones'

10:20am November 03, 2019

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Her new romantic comedy, also starring Henry Golding, is set to George Michael tunes, was co-written by Emma Thompson and takes place in London in winter.

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Edward Norton plays detective Lionel Essrog in Motherless Brooklyn, a movie he also directed and wrote.

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Why Edward Norton Moved 'Motherless Brooklyn' To The New York Of Robert Moses

9:08am November 02, 2019

by Mary Louise Kelly

The actor stars in — and directs, and wrote the screenplay for — his adaptation of Jonathan Lethem's detective novel. But he moved it to the 1950s to mine a dark side of NYC history.

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Movie Review: 'The Irishman' Is An Epic With The Feel Of History

4:33pm November 01, 2019

by Bob Mondello

Martin Scorsese's three-and-a-half-hour mob movie, "The Irishman," stars Robert De Niro as a killer for hire, and Al Pacino as Teamsters union boss Jimmy Hoffa.

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