Documentary: 'The Great Hack'
NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with filmmakers Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer about their Netflix documentary The Great Hack.
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When The Kids Grow Up, Motherhood Becomes A State Of 'Otherhood'
The new Netflix film stars Angela Bassett, Patricia Arquette and Felicity Huffman as three best friend moms who decide to show up unannounced in New York City to pay their adult sons a surprise visit.
'Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood' Is Tarantino's Most Personal Film In Years
Set in Hollywood in 1969, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star as a TV actor and his stunt double. The movie's low-key hangout vibes may test your patience, but every moment pulses with feeling.
What Made The 'Muppet Movie' Stand Out From The Pack?
"The Muppet Movie" is 40 years old. It was one of the highlights of childhood for many members of Generation X, but it may not have been given all the attention it deserved.
Tarantino's Turned-On, Tuned-In Tinseltown: 'Once Upon A Time In ... Hollywood'
Call it peak Tarantino: The writer/director's ninth film — about a Manson-family-adjacent actor and his stuntman — is an ode to the grimy, neon-lit place and time that shaped him.
'Mike Wallace Is Here': A Newsman Who Shined A Spotlight — And Basked In It
Avi Belkin's documentary of the late 60 Minutes interrogator explores the ambiguous space Wallace occupied between journalistic rigor and slick showmanship.
A Lobotomist Struggles To Hang On In The Brilliant, Blistering 'The Mountain'
In Rick Alverson's most coherent film to date, Jeff Goldblum plays a lobotomist at a time when the procedure is falling out of fashion.
Rainbows, Frogs, Dogs And 'The Muppet Movie' Soundtrack At 40
The Muppet Movie is an unusually silly and unusually profound musical. At 40 years old, the music still astounds, provokes and entertains.
A New Mother Stays In Syria: 'For Sama' Is The Movie She Made For Her Baby
Waad al-Kateab's documentary is a series of intimate portraits of daily life, marriage and motherhood in Aleppo. Her documentary For Sama is written as a letter to her newborn daughter.
Filmmaker Lulu Wang Based 'The Farewell' On Her Family's Real-Life Lie
When Wang's grandmother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, the family flew to China to see her, but decided not to tell her the prognosis. "I turned out to be a surprisingly good liar," Wang says.