'Green Room': A Choreographed Thriller With A Spontaneous Beat
Green Room, from the director of the well-regarded thriller Blue Ruin, is the violent and inventive story of a touring punk band that gets in way over its head.
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'Our Last Tango': A Dance Movie With A Personal Storm At Its Center
Argentina's premier tango couple is the subject of an ambitiously structured film that mixes dance with the story of a relationship that was both passionate and problematic.
Hey, They're Moving Ryan Reynolds' Consciousness Around Again
Criminal is the second film in a year that separates mind from body when it comes to poor, gorgeous Ryan Reynolds. In this case, his mind goes in Kevin Costner.
An Updated 'Jungle Book' Deftly Juggles Wonders And Threats
Jon Favreau directs a new version of The Jungle Book, in which Bill Murray and Christopher Walken help out with the voice work and the story considers the threats to the animals' way of life.
Encore: 'Mad Max' Editor On How Editing Shapes A Film
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Margaret Sixel, Oscar-winning editor of Mad Max: Fury Road. This story originally aired on Feb. 15, 2016, on All Things Considered.
With Hollywood's Advanced Digital Face-Lifting, Do We Even Need Actors?
You can now digitally replace just about anything on an actor's body — including the actor himself. Journalist Logan Hill explains this practice of often invisible digital retouching in media.
Buster Keaton And Samuel Beckett Walk Into A Movie Studio ...
In 1964, the silent film master and the celebrated playwright made a film together. It was Beckett's first movie — and it showed. Notfilm tells the story of their collaboration.
Grief Goes Explosive In 'Demolition' And 'Louder Than Bombs'
Louder Than Bombs and Demolition both deal with car crashes and grieving men, but the damage looks very different.
Will Superhero Movies Go The Way Of Old Westerns?
Western movies once ruled Hollywood the way comic book movies seem to now. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Brooks Hefner of James Madison University about how Westerns faded from popularity, and whether the same thing will happen to superhero movies.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: Best Bad Movies And A Punishing Quiz
On this week's show, original PCHH panelist Trey Graham returns to chat about bad movies and to be less humiliated than the rest of us by a quiz about pop culture returns.