'Going In Style' Is A Disappointingly Feeble Caper Comedy
This remake of a wry 1979 comedy about three retirees risking it all for a big score ditches the original's sense of urgency to focus instead on subplots and sentiment.
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Comedian Don Rickles, Merciless 'Merchant Of Venom,' Dies At 90
The famed insult comic and showbiz veteran worked well into his 80s. In his prime, Hollywood elites like his friend Frank Sinatra considered it an honor to be roasted by Rickles.
Changing Colors In Comics
Gene Demby and guest host Glen Weldon (our play cousin from Pop Culture Happy Hour) explore how comics are used as spaces for mapping race and identity.
Alec Baldwin On Career Highs And Lows And Playing A 'Larger Than Life' Trump
Baldwin tells Fresh Air that his SNL impression of the president is purposefully exaggerated. "There's a kind of volume to it," he says. "It's kind of the Macy's Day Parade [version] of Trump."
Documentarian Says 'Anarchist Cookbook' Author Was Filled With Remorse
But remorse and regret are two different things. William Powell's 1970s book contains instructions for making explosives. Charlie Siskel interviewed him for his film American Anarchist.
'Femininity Is Not Weakness,' Jessica Chastain Says Of 'Zookeeper's Wife'
Chastain stars as Antonina Żabińska, who, along with her husband, sheltered hundreds of Warsaw Jews during World War II. "It's exceptionally brave to fight violence with love," Chastain says.
Two Ways Of Documenting Uncertainty: 'All This Panic' And 'God Knows Where I Am'
Two documentaries out now flex a bit of moviemaking technique: All This Panic, about young women exploring what life has to offer, and God Knows Where I Am, about a woman who's sure she's seen it all.
In The Documentary 'Karl Marx City,' A Grim But Enlightening Homecoming
A filmmaker returns to the former East Germany to uncover family secrets and explore how life behind the Berlin Wall traded on civilian informants and an insidious collective obedience.
A Painter, A Novelist And A Contentious Lifelong Friendship: 'Cézanne et Moi'
It'll help to brush up on your Impressionists before seeing writer-director Danièle Thompson's decades-spanning portrait of Emile Zola and Paul Cézanne, but the film deftly avoids biopic clichés.
Caged By Its Noble Intentions: 'The Zookeeper's Wife'
This historical drama, based on the story of a Warsaw couple who helped hundreds of Jews flee Nazi-occupied Poland, is more interested in their heroism than their humanity.