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'Rustin' star Colman Domingo says the civil rights activist has been a 'North Star'

1:30pm February 16, 2024

by Terry Gross

Domingo is nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Bayard Rustin, an activist who was forced into the background because he was gay. Originally broadcast Dec. 11, 2024.

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Jennifer Lopez, from her film This Is Me...Now © Amazon Content Services LLC

Jennifer Lopez: Then and now

7:29am February 16, 2024

Jennifer Lopez offers a companion to her 2002 album This Is Me...Then. On This Is Me...Now she is once again inspired by falling in love with Ben Affleck.

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In Drift, Jacqueline (Cynthia Erivo) winds up in Greece after experiencing something terrible during a visit to her family in Liberia.

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A Liberian woman with a mysterious past dwells in limbo in 'Drift'

5:01am February 16, 2024

by Justin Chang

Cynthia Erivo stars as Jacqueline, a refugee who retreats from the world after experiencing tragedy at home. She befriends an American tour guide (Alia Shawkat) on the shore of an unnamed Greek isle.

Jerrod Carmichael and Emma Stone in Poor Things.

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Oscars, take note: 'Poor Things' built its weird, unforgettable world from scratch

5:02pm February 15, 2024

by Glen Weldon

Oddsmakers say Barbie will win this year's Oscar for production design. Our critic makes the case for Poor Things, which methodically builds a unique world for its main character to thrive within.

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The 'food' you see on-screen often isn't real food. Not so, in 'The Taste of Things'

7:01am February 15, 2024

by Elizabeth Blair

Food stylists will sometimes swap glue for milk and coat meat with motor oil. But on the set of The Taste of Things, the meals were real — and the actors kept eating after the director yelled "Cut!"

'Bob Marley: One Love' is a heartfelt biopic about the celebrated reggae musician

5:20pm February 14, 2024

by Bob Mondello

The biopic Bob Marley: One Love stars Kingsley Ben Adir as the Jamaican singer/songwriter who became the world's most celebrated reggae musician.

A massive new study looks at faith in film and TV

5:20pm February 14, 2024

by Neda Ulaby

There was a time when movies about people of faith were wildly popular. A new study surveyed 10,000 people in 11 countries about faith on screen. It's getting attention in Hollywood and beyond.

Three decades later, the French movie 'La Haine' is being turned into a musical

4:58pm February 14, 2024

by Eleanor Beardsley

A new musical in Paris opens this fall based on the French film classic La Haine, about life in the city's suburban slums.

Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho) sits with his niece Niko (Arisa Nakano) in Perfect Days.

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How to have 'Perfect Days' in a flawed world — this film embraces beauty all around

5:01am February 14, 2024

by John Powers

Shot entirely in Tokyo, this elegant fable is Wim Wenders' best fiction feature in decades. Although it flirts with glibness, Perfect Days asks questions about how to find joy in imperfect situations.

Actor Mark Ruffalo poses during his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2024.

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Mark Ruffalo shed the Hulk suit and had 'a blast' making 'Poor Things'

1:41pm February 13, 2024

by Sam Briger

A bawdy, dark comedy set in Victorian times, Poor Things was a departure from Ruffalo's prior work in movies like Zodiac and Spotlight, and his Marvel role as the Incredible Hulk.

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