Movies

Actress Karen Allen at the Los Angeles premiere of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Calif.

Arts

Wait Wait for June 24, 2023: Live from Tanglewood!

10:23am June 24, 2023

We're back in the beautiful Berkshires, and are lucky to be joined by Indiana Jones' Karen Allen. She talks snakes, Tom Selleck, and spitting, but can she answer our questions about pink lemonade?

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James Cameron walks in Purmamarca, Argentina, earlier this month. He's compared the OceanGate submersible tragedy to that of the Titanic itself.

James Cameron says the Titan passengers probably knew the submersible was in trouble

4:48pm June 23, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

The Titanic director has made 33 dives to the shipwreck and visited ocean depths in a submersible he built himself. He compares OceanGate to the Titanic in that both ignored safety warnings.

Ida and Isidor Straus died after she gave up her spot in a lifeboat to stay with him on the sinking Titanic. Their great-great-granddaughter Wendy Rush is married to Stockton Rush, the founder of OceanGate and pilot of its missing submersible.

National

The wife of OceanGate's CEO is descended from a famous couple who died on the Titanic

1:38pm June 22, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

Stockton Rush, OceanGate's CEO and the pilot on its missing sub, is married to the great-great-granddaughter of Ida and Isidor Straus. Their story inspired an iconic scene in James Cameron's movie.

'The Brightest Star' tells Anna May Wong's life story from her imagined perspective

4:39pm June 20, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with author Gail Tsukiyama about her new novel The Brightest Star, a fictional account of the life of actress Anna May Wong.

Pixar's 'Elemental' bombs at box office

5:07pm June 19, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with critic Keith Phipps about the poor performance of Pixar's new movie Elemental and what it says about the movie industry.

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Two New Orleans-area residents wear 3D glasses for a Revenge of the Creature screening in February 1982.

Arts

If you don't love the 3D movie experience, you're not alone

7:00am June 17, 2023

by Linda Holmes

Critic Linda Holmes has always been a 3D skeptic — the glasses are fiddly and become plastic junk, the gimmicks wear off, it gets distracting, and it introduces opportunities for technical problems.

When A Martinez's new work desk looked barren, he picked up this statue of The Flash at a comic book store.

Arts

Every superhero has an origin story. So does every superhero's superfan. Here's mine.

5:03pm June 16, 2023

by A Martínez

"I always made the decision to run, and I usually got away." A Martinez found a relatable and human superhero in The Flash, and grew up to be a superfan.

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Arts

Wes Anderson has outdone himself with 'Asteroid City'

5:00am June 16, 2023

by Justin Chang

Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Hanks star in this play-within-a-TV-show-within-a-movie that takes place in a small 1950s desert town that's hosting an astronomy convention for kids.

Wes Anderson's sci-fi 'Asteroid City' stays true to his look and feel

4:55pm June 15, 2023

by Bob Mondello

A Junior Stargazer convention is hit by world-changing events in Wes Anderson's Asteroid City, a comedy with an all-star cast including Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton and Bryan Cranston.

British actor Glenda Jackson in April, 1974.

Arts

British star Glenda Jackson has died at age 87

9:43am June 15, 2023

by Jeff Lunden

Jackson was one of the finest British actors of her generation, winning Oscar, Emmy and Tony Awards. Fiercely political, she also served as a member of Parliament for decades.