Movies

Actor Bruce Lee with producer Fred Weintraub, on the set Enter the Dragon in 1973.

Fred Weintraub, Founder Of The Bitter End And 'Enter The Dragon' Producer, Dies At 88

2:19pm March 08, 2017

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

As an impresario and producer, Weintraub fueled the careers of scores of important performers across music, comedy and film — from Bob Dylan to Woody Allen to Bruce Lee. He died Sunday at age 88.

Fred Gwynne plays Judge Chamberlain Haller in the 1992 comedy My Cousin Vinny.

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How Do Americans Feel About The Courts? Let Hollywood Be The Judge

5:55pm March 07, 2017

by Bob Mondello

With all the recent talk about politics and the judiciary, NPR's Bob Mondello has been thinking about how judges are depicted on screen. He takes us on a tour from Duck Soup to Judgment at Nuremberg.

TV host Robert Osborne attends TCM Classic Film Festival's opening night gala of Oklahoma! in Hollywood in 2014.

Robert Osborne, Host Of Turner Classic Movies, Dies At 84

4:59pm March 06, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

Osborne wrote a column for The Hollywood Reporter, kept the official history of the Academy Awards and was the primetime host of TCM.

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'Time: The Kalief Browder Story' Depicts Issues With Solitary Confinement

6:55pm March 04, 2017

by Michel Martin

Director Jenner Furst talks about his new documentary miniseries, Time: The Kalief Browder Story, on Spike TV. Browder served three years in Riker's Island jail after being accused of stealing.

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Then-President Obama awards the National Medal of Arts to actress, theater founder and director Miriam Colon in September 2015.

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Míriam Colón, Puerto Rican Actress And Theater Pioneer, Dies At 80

2:05pm March 04, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Since coming to the U.S., Colón acted in over 90 films, imbuing her often secondary roles with soul. Behind the scenes, as a theater producer, she also blazed a path for other Latino actors to follow.

Will (left) and Brooke Blair composed the music for I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore, the directorial debut of their older brother Macon.

After 'Green Room' and 'Blue Ruin,' The Brothers Blair Keep Film Music In The Family

7:41am March 04, 2017

by Tim Greiving

Composers Brooke and Will Blair got some notice last year for their music for the cult hit Green Room, starring their brother Macon. Now they're scoring his directorial debut.

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In 'Logan,' Hugh Jackman's Wolverine Shines His Badge One Last Time

4:46pm March 03, 2017

by Bob Mondello

NPR movie critic Bob Mondello reviews the latest and darkest Marvel movie, Logan, which follows an aging X-Men Wolverine and Charles Xavier.

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In Shirley MacLaine's New Movie, She Has 'The Last Word'

4:33pm March 03, 2017

Shirley MacLaine agrees that she's played a lot of sharp-tongued, difficult-to-be-around women, and that's true of her latest role in the movie, The Last Word. In her latest role, she's a woman obsessed with designing her own obituary. MacLaine talks about how she approaches acting and dodges what she wants written in her own obituary.

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The X-Men Franchise Takes An Intense, Scorched-Earth Turn With 'Logan'

1:31pm March 03, 2017

by David Edelstein

Major characters go down in showers of blood and gore in the latest stand-alone Wolverine film. Critic David Edelstein says that Logan is an "incredibly bleak ... crackerjack piece of work."

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Even adamantium rusts: Hugh Jackman stars in Logan.

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'Logan' Is The Best At What It Does — And What It Does Is Gritty

5:00pm March 02, 2017

by Chris Klimek

Critic Chris Klimek says this small-scale, sun-blasted tale of an aging Wolverine's efforts to protect a young mutant "plays like the King Lear of the X-saga."