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Brad Pitt stars in Ad Astra as an astronaut in search of his father, who disappeared on a mission many years prior.

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Brad Pitt On Making 'Ad Astra,' Processing Trauma And Channeling David Bowie

8:31am September 22, 2019

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

The actor stars in a new science-fiction blockbuster about more than just an astronaut on a space mission: "We wanted to do something very sincere and raw and painfully honest," he says.

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'Downton Abbey' Actresses On Recapturing Their TV Roles In New Film

8:31am September 22, 2019

NPR's Melissa Block speaks with Michelle Dockery and Elizabeth McGovern from the movie "Downton Abbey," based on the award-winning series about the owners and workers at a great English estate.

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'Cine Mexico Now' Brings Mexican Films To Winston-Salem

10:55am September 21, 2019

by Eddie Garcia

Cine Mexico Now is a six-part film series celebrating Spanish-language

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'Ad Astra' Approaches The Sublime With Its Portrait Of Masculinity In Crisis

1:49pm September 20, 2019

by Justin Chang

Brad Pitt is an astronaut who saves the world by traveling millions of miles to reunite with his long-absent dad. It's an unabashedly ridiculous premise, but somehow Ad Astra manages to pull it off.

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Review: Is 'Downton Abbey,' The Movie, Worth The Wait?

6:12am September 20, 2019

NPR's David Greene talks to Kenneth Turan, film critic for Morning Edition and the Los Angeles Times, about the new movie based on the popular TV series: Downton Abbey. The film opens Friday.

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Jim Carter returns as Charles Carson for a royal visit in Downton Abbey.

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In The 'Downton Abbey' Film, A Royal Visit Proves Rather A Spot Of Bother

8:01pm September 19, 2019

by Glen Weldon

The new film is "less a victory lap than a cakewalk." Everything about the TV series — those aspects you loved, and those you didn't — is reproduced here with astonishing fidelity.

More like DAD Astra am I right? Brad Pitt stars as astronaut Roy McBride chasing the ghost of his father across an unforgiving solar system in Ad Astra.

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'Ad Astra' Soars

6:52pm September 19, 2019

by Chris Klimek

Distance — both interplanetary and emotional — is the subject of James Gray's "stirring sci-fi epic" that stars Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones.

Toni Servillo stars in Paolo Sorrentino's film, which was recut from a two-part Italian TV series about the decadent life of Silvio Berlusconi.

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'Loro': Sorrentino's Portrait Of Berlusconi As A Once-Powerful Lion In Winter

5:01pm September 19, 2019

by Mark Jenkins

This "stylish but overloaded satire is less sober narrative than drunken tone poem — a buzzing, throbbing attempt to simulate" what it was like inside the mogul-turned-prime-minister's circle.

Roy Cohn, pictured here sitting on a senate investigation subcommittee, is remembered as a master political manipulator in Where's My Roy Cohn?

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Documentary 'Where's My Roy Cohn?' Suggests He's Closer Than You Think

5:00pm September 19, 2019

by Ella Taylor

Matt Tyrnaeur's documentary posits that Cohn, a notoriously ruthless and amoral political operative, set the ground rules by which today's politics play out.

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'Downton Abbey' Movie Brings You Up To Speed With The Crawleys

4:38pm September 19, 2019

by Bob Mondello

The Crawleys are back, and the big screen has them this time, in a story that picks up a few years after the TV show ended.