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Key And Peele Duo Are Back As Action-Duo In 'Keanu'

8:06am April 29, 2016

Lourdes Garcia-Navarro talks with Wesley Morris, critic at large for The New York Times, about Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, the comedians behind the award-winning sketch comedy show.

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'Jungle Book' Love: Why I Identify With The 'Flower In Underpants'

5:11pm April 28, 2016

by Rhitu Chatterjee

Growing up in India, she was a fan of the dubbed-in-Hindi TV series. As a globetrotting adult, she is touched by the Disney movie version.

Lou de Laage and Juliette Binoche in L'Attesa (The Wait).

Arts

'L'Attesa': Two Women Wait, Perhaps In Vain

5:00pm April 28, 2016

by Mark Jenkins

Juliette Binoche plays another in a string of grieving-survivor roles in the visually powerful story of a mother who meets her son's girlfriend.

Viktoria follows three generations of women in the final years of the People's Republic of Bulgaria.

Arts

A Maternal Melodrama Unfolds Around An Unusual Girl In 'Viktoria'

5:00pm April 28, 2016

by Ella Taylor

A dictator commandeers and pampers a young girl in Maya Vitkova's boldly visceral fairy tale.

Keegan-Michael Key as Clarence and Jordan Peele as Rell in Keanu.

Arts

'Keanu' Finds Key And Peele On The Hunt For A Kitty

5:00pm April 28, 2016

by Scott Tobias

The sketch comedy duo Key and Peele pull off the difficult feat of translating their sensibility into a feature film that recalls out-all-night sagas like Adventures In Babysitting.

Nicole Kidman and Jason Bateman in The Family Fang.

Arts

'The Family Fang' Makes Art Together, Falls Apart Together

5:00pm April 28, 2016

by Andrew Lapin

Jason Bateman directs a cast including himself, Nicole Kidman and Christopher Walken in the story of a family where the parents' experimental performances included the kids from an early age.

Tom Hanks plays an American businessman on an assignment in the middle of the Saudi Arabian desert in A Hologram for the King, which is based on a novel by Dave Eggers.

Arts

Tom Hanks Says Self-Doubt Is 'A High-Wire Act That We All Walk'

3:13pm April 26, 2016

"No matter what we've done there comes a point where you think, 'How did I get here?' " Hanks says. He plays an American businessman working in the middle of the Saudi Arabian desert in his new film.

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In high school, Meryl Streep was one of the "cheeries."

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Meryl Streep's First Acting Gig: Becoming Pretty And Popular In High School

10:52am April 26, 2016

by Susan Stamberg

In a new biography called Her Again, author Michael Schulman says that at 14, Streep decided to reinvent herself — and before she was an Oscar winner, she was homecoming queen.

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Wendell Berry, America's foremost farmer-philosopher, with horses on his farm.

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The Gospel According To Wendell Berry, On Screen

10:07am April 24, 2016

by Dan Charles

America's foremost farmer-philosopher, Wendell Berry, is the subject of a new documentary. It celebrates the writer's work, and the rural community in Kentucky in which he's rooted.

Arts

Lorene Scafaria Pays Tribute To Mother In 'The Meddler'

9:02am April 24, 2016

Lorene Scafaria's new film is a valentine to her mother, and mothers everywhere. Rachel Martin talks to Scafaria about the film, which follows a widow remaking her life after the death of her husband.