Spike Lee's 'Chi-Raq' Offers Unique Approach To Ending Chicago's Violence
NPR's Bob Mondello reviews Spike Lee's Chi-Raq, a movie satire in rap and verse based on Aristophanes' ancient Greek satire, Lysistrata.
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WATCH: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler Take On 'Star Wars'
Their film Sisters comes out the same weekend as Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Are they worried about getting crushed? "R2-D2 is my bra size," Fey says in a Sisters trailer called "The Farce Awakens."
Spike Lee Pits Sex Against Guns In A Powerful Message Movie
Lee's new film, Chi-Raq, is an adaptation of the Greek comedy Lysistrata, in which women withhold sex to get their men to stop fighting. Critic David Edelstein calls it a "sexy, brash and potent."
Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'The Good Dinosaur,' Pixar And Second Thoughts
This week's show takes a look at the latest from Pixar — both the somewhat disappointing feature and the awesome short — and we consider the times we've changed our minds.
Fey And Poehler: 'Sisters' Who Will Take Down 'Star Wars' — Or Laugh Trying
What film would be crazy enough to schedule its release on the same day as the new Star Wars? Why, it's Sisters, the new film from Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
Maggie Smith Excels As 'The Lady In The Van'
Playwright Alan Bennett tells the unlikely but true story of a the homeless woman who parked her van in his driveway and lived there for 15 years.
Spike Lee Declares An Emergency In 'Chi-Raq'
Lee adapts Aristophanes' Lysistrata into the story of a Chicago woman who pledges to withhold sex as leverage to stop violence.
'Youth' In Themes And Variations
Writer-director Paolo Sorrentino creates a world of incidents and asides in a Swiss spa hotel, where pals played by Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel like to get away from it all.
A Cloud Of Gloom Over 'Every Thing Will Be Fine'
Directed by Wim Wenders, the film features James Franco as a man whose pain over a single tragedy follows him for years.
Acclaimed Documentary About Campus Rape Draws Critics Too
The Hunting Ground, shortlisted for next year's Oscars, has inspired a backlash — not only for its perspective but for the factual foundation on which it is based and its reporting methods.