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The House Music Of Paris Takes Center Stage In 'Eden'

5:03pm June 18, 2015

by Mark Jenkins

Director and co-writer Mia Hansen-Love tells the tale of a young man, based on her own brother, who finds and then loses a deep attachment to the electronic dance music of Paris in the 1990s.

'Love & Mercy' Brings The Life Of Brian Wilson To The Big Screen

1:46pm June 18, 2015

Screenwriter Oren Moverman talks with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about the film's depiction of the Beach Boy's troubled life. We'll also listen back to an interview Gross recorded with Wilson in 1988.

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Director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy clearly intends the boarding school for the deaf as a stand-in for all the things that have gone wrong with Ukrainian society.

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'The Tribe' Says A Lot About Violence, Sex And Love — Without A Single Word

8:21pm June 17, 2015

by Bob Mondello

Movie critic Bob Mondello says The Tribe is about big things — love, violence — and made entirely in sign language without any subtitles, voiceovers, or translations of any sort.

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'3 ½ Minutes' Chronicles Florida Murder Over Loud Rap Music

7:19am June 17, 2015

by Michele Norris

A new documentary revisits Florida's loud music murder case. Michael Dunn, a white man, shot 10 bullets into a car with four unarmed young black men during an argument at a Jacksonville gas station.

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Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard in Jurassic World.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour, Small Batch Edition: 'Jurassic World'

3:48pm June 15, 2015

by Linda Holmes

The new super-mega-blockbuster dinosaur movie has fun dino stuff, a great performance from a guy in glasses, and two main characters who are severely underwritten.

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The 1949 murder film Too Late For Tears, starring Lizabeth Scott and Dan Duryea, follows a woman desperate to protect a newfound fortune. It will be shown as part of Turner Classic Movies' "Summer of Darkness" on July 17.

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Mystery Loves Company, And TCM's Noir Movie Marathon Has Plenty Of Both

2:27pm June 15, 2015

by Beth Accomando

Turner Classic Movies has kicked off its "Summer of Darkness" — 24 hours of noir films every Friday in June and July with an accompanying free, online class.

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Joy (left, voiced by Amy Poehler) and Sadness (voiced by Phyllis Smith) catch a ride on the Train of Thought in Pixar's Inside Out. The movie opens in theaters nationwide June 19.

Science Of Sadness And Joy: 'Inside Out' Gets Childhood Emotions Right

2:26pm June 15, 2015

by Jon Hamilton

Pixar's animated fantasy takes viewers inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl named Riley. Psychologists say the film offers an accurate picture of how emotions and memories help make us who we are.

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Isolated And Inside For Years, Brothers Lived Lives Through Cinema

11:46am June 15, 2015

A documentary called The Wolfpack follows six brothers whose parents kept them virtual prisoners in their New York apartment. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the filmmaker and one of the brothers.

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Greg (Thomas Mann) is jokey, mostly as a substitute for actual social interaction.

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Laughs Leaven Tears In 'Me And Earl And The Dying Girl'

8:55pm June 12, 2015

by Bob Mondello

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl was a surprise smash at this year's Sundance Film Festival; it's a tale of three teens facing mortality that manages to capture teen angst without wallowing in drama.

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Krsna Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo, Bhagavan Angulo, Mukunda Angulo, Narayana Angulo and Govinda Angulo in The Wolfpack.

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In One New York Apartment, Six Brothers See The World Through Film

4:38pm June 12, 2015

by Ella Taylor

The documentary The Wolfpack follows a family led by parents so anxious about the outside world, that for years they largely kept their children from encountering it at all.