Movies

In Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Angelina Jolie returns as the iconic Disney villain.

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'Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil' Clips Angelina Jolie's Wings

5:00pm October 17, 2019

by Scott Tobias

This "extremely weird" sequel to the 2014 film that riffed on Disney's Sleeping Beauty shunts its main character off-screen for most of its running time, in favor of CGI spectacle.

Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin and Emma Stone reunite for a second dose of celebrity cameos and zombie killing in Zombieland: Double Tap.

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'Zombieland: Double Tap' Taps Into Nostalgia For Its Predecessor

5:00pm October 17, 2019

by Chris Klimek

The in-jokes and callbacks come at you faster than the zombies do in this agreeable return to the world of the 2009 horror-comedy.

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Filmmaker Taika Waititi On Satirizing Nazis In 'Jojo Rabbit'

1:57pm October 16, 2019

by Terry Gross

Jojo Rabbit centers on a 10-year-old boy who joins the Hitler Youth. Writer and director Waititi, who is from New Zealand, is half-Jewish and half-Maori. He plays the boy's imaginary friend, Hitler.

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A younger Julie Andrews poses with the Academy Award she won for her role in Mary Poppins.

How Julie Andrews Made Herself At 'Home' In Hollywood

10:57am October 15, 2019

by Rachel Martin

In a new memoir, the actress writes about the films and creative collaborations — like Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music — that marked the height of her fame.

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Documentary Reveals The Depth And Complexity Of Opera Star Maria Callas

1:37pm October 14, 2019

by Lloyd Schwartz

Maria by Callas weaves together performance clips, home movies, interviews and poignant diary excepts to present an intimate portrait of the singer in her own words.

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Netflix Movie 'El Camino' Is Carefully Constructed Epilogue For 'Breaking Bad'

5:26am October 14, 2019

by Eric Deggans

Netflix's El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie answers a question that wasn't answered by the TV show's 2013 finale: What happened to Walter White's meth-dealing assistant, Jesse Pinkman?

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Documentary: 'Where's My Roy Cohn?'

5:43pm October 13, 2019

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with director Matt Tyrnauer about his documentary Where's My Roy Cohn?.

Adam DeVine stars as a technology-dependent man whose life gets derailed by a new feature on his phone: an AI assistant Jexi, voiced by Rose Byrne.

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'Jexi' Is Siri-Ously Bad

1:26pm October 12, 2019

by Andrew Lapin

Adam DeVine plays a lonely nerd whose phone takes over his life in this lazy, generic satire.

Aaron Paul plays Jesse Pinkman in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.

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'El Camino' Gives Jesse Pinkman Life Beyond 'Breaking Bad'

1:59pm October 11, 2019

by Linda Holmes

The new Netflix movie starring Aaron Paul as a desperate Jesse, on the run immediately after the events of the Breaking Bad finale, explores the trauma that his association with Walter White created.

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6 Years Later, 'El Camino' Proves Just As Exciting And Original As 'Breaking Bad'

1:38pm October 11, 2019

by David Bianculli

The Netflix film picks up right where Breaking Bad left off, with Jesse (Aaron Paul) speeding off after escaping from his captors. From there, El Camino is a wild and spellbinding ride.

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