Movies

Tina Fey stars as Princeton University admissions counselor Portia Nathan in the new comedy Admission. Fey says the movie's frankly manic depiction of the college application melee appealed to her.

Tina Fey, Movie Star? Not Quite Yet, She Says

by NPR Staff

The writer, actor and producer has a starring role in the new movie Admission. She speaks with Linda Wertheimer about comedy, being in control and — now that her long-running sitcom, 30 Rock, has ended — why she really means it when she says she's taking a pause to spend more time with her family.
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The noisy film is mostly wordless, with animals and nature filling in the blanks between its strangely stark images.

'Leviathan': The Fishing Life, From 360 Degrees

by Pat Dowell

Leviathan is a new film that's a documentary, and yet not quite a documentary. The mostly wordless art piece uses tiny cameras and dramatic soundscaping to probe the edges of human-animal interaction off the coast of New England. The filmmakers explain their unusual production process.
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James Franco stars as the Wizard of Oz before the Wizard meets Dorothy in Oz the Great and Powerful.

'Oz': Neither Great Nor Powerful

by David Edelstein

There are three reasons to see this prequel to the classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz: the trio of witches played by Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams. But James Franco, who stars as the wizard-in-the-making, disappoints — and the film as a whole is a bit snoozy.
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