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In prequel 'A Quiet Place: Day One,' Lupita Nyong'o's performance speaks for itself

9:10am June 27, 2024

by Aisha Harris

It’s rare for the third installment of a franchise to resonate just as deeply, if not more, than its predecessors. But Day One manages to raise fresh, existential questions.

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Lily Gladstone's 'Fancy Dance' is a road trip worth taking

3:00am June 27, 2024

The new film Fancy Dance offers something all-too-rare on screen: contemporary Indigenous perspectives, front and center. Lily Gladstone plays a woman trying to keep it together under stressful circumstances. Her sister's gone missing, and she steps in to look after her young niece (Isabel Deroy-Olson). The pair take what turns out to be a rocky road trip and a unique bonding experience.

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After the Sept. 11 attacks, Michelle Buteau decided: 'I better start living'

11:50am June 26, 2024

by Tonya Mosley

Buteau says covering the news of the 2001 terrorist attacks crystalized her desire to go into comedy. She stars in the film Babes and in the Netflix series Survival of the Thickest.

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Ghanaian artist Blitz Bazawule breaks down doors

12:38pm June 25, 2024

by Tonya Mosley

Bazawule is best known for directing the 2023 adaptation of The Color Purple: The Musical. He also co-directed Black Is King with Beyoncé. His new exhibit of paintings is about growing up in Ghana.

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Writers Guild Members Man Picket Lines As Labor Talks Continue

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This time last year, Hollywood writers were on strike. Now, many can’t find work

11:45am June 25, 2024

by Mandalit del Barco

The entertainment industry was shifting dramatically even before the strikes that paused production last year. Now, many Hollywood writers are feeling the pinch.

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'Inside Out 2' scores $100 million in its second weekend, setting records

1:51am June 24, 2024

by The Associated Press

In just a week and a half, Inside Out 2 has become 2024’s highest-grossing film to date, surpassing Dune: Part Two. Inside Out 2 will likely blow through the $1 billion mark in about a week.

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Years before intimacy coordinators on Hollywood sets, there was the 1996 film Bound

3:30pm June 23, 2024

The 1996 film neo-noir thriller "Bound" pushed boundaries in its portrayals of sex and gender on screen. It was re-issued as part of the Criterion Collection this past week.

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Austin Butler on 'The Bikeriders'

4:05pm June 22, 2024

by Don Gonyea

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with actor Austin Butler about the new movie "The Bikeriders," which follows a motorcycle club outside Chicago in the 1960s.

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Yorgos Lanthimos exhausts his ideas, and his audience, in 'Kinds of Kindness'

4:45pm June 21, 2024

by Justin Chang

Fresh off of Poor Things, director Lanthimos' three-part dark comedy about domination and free will feels like a lazy and self-admiring riff — punctuated by the occasional crude shock.

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June Squibb and Fred Hechinger in Thelma.

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June Squibb's 'Thelma' is the wrong grandma to mess with

3:00am June 21, 2024

Financial scams are an unfortunate phenomenon, but what happens when a fraudster messes with the wrong grandma? The very fun action-comedy Thelma imagines exactly this scenario. The movie stars June Squibb as a woman scammed by someone pretending to be her grandson. She then enlists her old friend (the late Richard Roundtree) to help get her money back.

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