New Star Wars Movie Is Called 'The Force Awakens,' Disney Says
Before today, it was known only as Episode VII. Set decades after Return of the Jedi, the new installment will feature some of the same cast as the 1983 film.
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'Interstellar': A Good Old-Fashioned Chunk Of Sci-Fi Silliness
Christopher Nolan's film stars Matthew McConaughey as an astronaut who takes his ship through a wormhole to another galaxy to find a home for earth's inhabitants. It's cool, awe-inspiring and goofy.
'Our Secret Life': Watching The Quirky Criterion Classics
J.M. Tyree and Michael McGriff spent a year watching the entire Criterion Collection of classic films. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to them about their new book, Our Secret Life in the Movies.
Actor's Calendar: 'Girls,' 'Star Wars,' Taking Theater To The Military
Adam Driver is famous for his role in HBO's Girls and his major (and mysterious) part in the next Star Wars film. Less famous: The former Marine's nonprofit organization, Arts in the Armed Forces.
Remembering All-Night Fright Fests And Halloween Horrorthons
For Halloween, NPR movie critic Bob Mondello remembers scaring up some frights from his first job at a movie theater.
Review: Gyllenhaal's 'Nightcrawler' Is Pulp With A Purpose
Kenneth Turan reviews Nightcrawler, a thriller set in the "nocturnal underbelly" of Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a young man who discovers the world of L.A. crime journalism.
'Nightcrawler' Jake Gyllenhaal: We're All Complicit In 'If It Bleeds, It Leads'
"There's something very primal about the slowing down at an accident scene," says Gyllenhaal. He plays a freelance cameraman, racing to get the grisliest footage, in the film Nightcrawler.
Black Students Gather At Harvard To Watch 'Dear White People'
Dear White People follows the stories of four black students at a prestigious, majority white college, where racial tensions are threatening to bring chaos to the campus.
In 'Goodbye To Language,' Jean-Luc Godard Seeks New Ways To Make Pictures
At 83, the Franco-Swiss auteur has made another complex visual poem, this time using 3D technology. The film bubbles with invention, thanks to jittery editing and a jumble of photographic styles.
'The Great Invisible' Views An Environmental Catastrophe From Many Sides
Margaret Brown's soft-spoken documentary examines the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The film recognizes an instinct toward simplistic polarization, but pushes gently against it.