Movies

'A Private War' Celebrates The Courage Of Journalist Marie Colvin

8:23am November 12, 2018

by Deborah Amos

A new film features the story of journalist Marie Colvin, who was killed while reporting in Syria. Starring Rosamund Pike, A Private War, shows what drove and haunted the journalist.

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'Boy Erased': The True Story Behind The Film

5:32pm November 11, 2018

Garrard Conley's memoir of growing up as the gay son of a conservative Baptist preacher has been made into a movie. He speaks with NPR's Michel Martin.

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Ralph Ineson plays "the man in black" in "Near Algodones," the second segment of the Western anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Beginning Nov. 16, the film will play in theaters for a week before it becomes available for streaming on Netflix.

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Life's Cruelty Is A Constant In The Coen Brothers' Mixed Bag Western 'Ballad'

12:56pm November 09, 2018

by Justin Chang

Joel and Ethan Coen's new film is a feature-length collection of six stories set in the Old West. Justin Chang says the tall tales featured in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs are an odd, melancholy lot.

Jeff Goldblum's new album with his jazz group, The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, is called The Capitol Studios Sessions.

Jeff Goldblum The Jazz Artist? Life, Uh, Finds A Way

9:18am November 09, 2018

At his weekly gigs in L.A. — and now on a new live album — you'll find the actor playing keys one moment, holding court with attendees the next and just generally being ... well, Jeff Goldblum.

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Having A Great Time, Wish You Were Queer: Jim (Harris Dickinson) in Steve McLean's stylized, whimsical Postcards From London.

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'Postcards From London': Rent Boys Will Be Rent Boys In A Stylized, Neon-Lit Soho

9:34pm November 08, 2018

by Ella Taylor

Writer/director Steve McLean's "lovely piece of whimsy" about a gay sex worker in 1970s London examines "the mixed blessings of sex, art, beauty and authenticity."

Hugh Jackman, and wig, play Gary Hart in Jason Reitman's The Front Runner.

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'The Front Runner' Stumbles Into Familiar Territory

7:24pm November 08, 2018

by Scott Tobias

The film follows Gary Hart (Hugh Jackman) through his three-week presidential bid that fell victim to monkey business, but what director Jason Reitman brings to it is familiar — even quaint.

Robert the Bruce (Chris Pine) surveys his phalanx in Outlaw King.

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In Netflix's War Epic 'Outlaw King' There's Plenty Of War, But Not Much That's Epic

5:00pm November 08, 2018

by Andrew Lapin

Director David Mackenzie (Hell or High Water) keeps the scale too small and the stakes too low in this retelling of the rebellion of Scotland's Robert the Bruce (Chris Pine).

"Welcome to my pallor, said the spider to the fly": Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy) goes beyond the pale in The Girl in the Spider's Web.

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'The Girl In The Spider's Web' Struggles To Break Free Of Techno-Thriller Cliches

5:00pm November 08, 2018

by Mark Jenkins

Claire Foy takes over the role of Swedish super-hacker Lisbeth Salander in a reboot that reheats stale ideas from many previous spy/hacker movies.

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Inside This Deceptively Simple Story Lurks A 'Burning' Psychological Thriller

1:25pm November 06, 2018

by Justin Chang

Director Lee Chang-dong's film centers on two young men and the woman who brings them together. Critic Justin Chang calls Burning the most absorbing — and enigmatic — new movie he's seen all year.

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Joel Edgerton stars as the head of a "conversion therapy" program in Boy Erased, which he also directs.

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A 'Hopeful Story' Within Gay Conversion Therapy Drama 'Boy Erased'

9:25am November 06, 2018

by David Greene

Actor and director Joel Edgerton says that his new movie, based on a memoir of attending a religious "conversion" camp, is targeting "as many parents as possible."

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