Movies

'The Jazz Ambassadors': Cold War Diplomacy And Civil Rights In Conflict

6:11pm May 05, 2018

A new PBS film documents the African-American musicians who spread good will for the U.S. overseas during the war, despite discrimination faced at home. Michel Martin talks to filmmaker Hugo Berkeley.

Books

How To Make Movies 'Like Brothers'

8:07am May 05, 2018

NPR's Scott Simon asks brothers Mark and Jay Duplass about working together as filmmakers and about their new book, Like Brothers.

Arts

2 Women Share The Stress And Sleeplessness Of Motherhood In 'Tully'

3:29pm May 04, 2018

by David Edelstein

An exhausted mother hires a free-spirited night nurse to tend to her baby in a Diablo Cody's latest film. Critic David Edelstein calls Tully a "strange and mythic" movie.

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"Yeah You Know Me": Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the subject of RBG, a documentary about her life and work.

Arts

Jurist, Prudent: Documentary 'RBG' Profiles Ginsburg On And Off The Bench

11:42am May 04, 2018

by Andrew Lapin

Co-directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West's doc preaches to the choir, and does so most effectively when it focuses on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's career and not the memes that have accrued to her.

Emily Blunt as Evelyn Abbott and John Krasinski as Lee Abbott in A Quiet Place.

Arts

Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'A Quiet Place'

10:40am May 04, 2018

by Linda Holmes

The shush-iest film to become a hit in quite some time gets some overdue attention from the panel on this episode.

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Bill Cosby And Roman Polanski Expelled From Motion Picture Academy

6:27am May 04, 2018

by Mandalit del Barco

After Bill Cosby was convicted of assaulting a woman, the academy issued a statement saying both he and director Roman Polanski would be expelled for violating the organization's standards of conduct.

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French-Polish director Roman Polanski poses prior to a screening of one of his movies Oct. 30 during a retrospective of his work at the Cinematheque in Paris.

Motion Picture Academy Expels Bill Cosby And Roman Polanski

10:57pm May 03, 2018

by Neda Ulaby

Despite a statutory rape conviction, Polanski has been nominated for three Academy Awards. He won the best director award in 2003 for his film The Pianist.

Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez star in Overboard, a remake of the 1987 film with the same name.

Arts

'Overboard': A Gender-Flipped Remake Stays Afloat

7:00pm May 03, 2018

by Scott Tobias

Critic Scott Tobias says the updated Anna Faris/Eugenio Derbez take on the 1987 comedy is "not a particularly funny film, but it's big-hearted and sincere, with fine chemistry between the two leads."

A night nanny (Mackenzie Davis) and a harried mother (Charlize Theron) develop an unusual relationship in Tully.

Arts

In 'Tully,' Charlize Theron And Mackenzie Davis Make A Great (Au) Pair

5:00pm May 03, 2018

by Ella Taylor

Director Jason Reitman re-teams with Juno scripter Diablo Cody for a film about an overburdened mother and her nanny that's "a little bit funny, a bigger bit cruel, and with it all, oddly moving."

After years of claiming she was black, Rachel Dolezal was outed as white in 2015. The Netflix documentary The Rachel Divide explores the fallout for Dolezal and her family.

Arts

'Rachel Divide' Director Says Dolezal 'Has Remained Resolute'

5:14pm May 02, 2018

by Audie Cornish

In 2015, Rachel Dolezal became a walking Rorschach test for America's racial dysfunction. A new Netflix documentary explores what happened to Dolezal after the initial furor died down.

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