Movies

A visitor enters the Officers Casino building at ESMA on March 19, 2016. The windows are filled with images of civilians who were tortured and killed here.

'El Juicio (The Trial)' details the 1976-'83 Argentine dictatorship's reign of terror

4:25pm February 17, 2023

by Bob Mondello

Forty years after the fall of an Argentine military dictatorship that tortured and murdered tens of thousands of civilians, a video record of its trial will be shown to the public for the first time.

National

From 'Dreamgirls' to 'Abbot Elementary,' Sheryl Lee Ralph isn't leaving the spotlight

4:13pm February 17, 2023

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Abbot Elementary's Sheryl Lee Ralph about her lengthy career and finding a spotlight later in life.

Emily speculates about the life of the 19th-century English writer Emily Jane Brontë (Emma Mackey) in the years before she wrote Wuthering Heights.

Arts

'Emily' imagines Brontë before 'Wuthering Heights'

2:08pm February 17, 2023

by Justin Chang

A new film captures the complexity of family relationships by freely speculating about the lives of 19th-century English writer Emily Brontë and her siblings.

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Un visitante entra en el edificio del Casino de Oficiales de la ESMA el 19 de marzo de 2016. Las ventanas están repletas de imágenes de civiles que fueron torturados y asesinados allí.

'El Juicio' detalla el régimen de terror de la dictadura argentina 1976-'83

12:52pm February 17, 2023

by Bob Mondello

Cuarenta años después de la caída de la dictadura militar argentina que torturó y asesinó a miles de civiles, se muestra una grabación del juicio de los militares responsables por primera vez.

Health & Safety

Actor Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia. Here's what to know about the disease

3:47am February 17, 2023

by Ayana Archie

Willis family announced Thursday that his previous diagnosis of aphasia has progressed to frontotemporal dementia. The disease can cause issues with speaking and writing.

Publicity still portrait of American actors Raquel Welch and Jim Brown in the western drama '100 Rifles' (20th Century Fox), 1969.

Six must-see films with Raquel Welch, from 'Fantastic Voyage' to 'Myra Breckinridge'

10:21pm February 16, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

The veteran film, television and stage actress died Wednesday morning at the age of 82, after a brief illness.

National

'Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania' launches a new villain in Marvel's 31st movie

5:40pm February 16, 2023

by Bob Mondello

A big title for some very small superheroes — Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania — heralds the latest Marvel movie.

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Actress Raquel Welch at the 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards January 16, 2005.

Raquel Welch, actress and Hollywood sex symbol, dead at 82

9:16pm February 15, 2023

by Ciera Crawford

Welch is best known for her roles in Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years B.C. She is survived by her son and daughter.

"Say, do any of you guys know how to Madison?" Scott (Paul Rudd) and Cassie (Kathryn Newton) greeted by residents of the Quantum Realm.

Arts

In 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,' the setting is subatomic — as are the stakes

2:37pm February 15, 2023

by Glen Weldon

The third film in Marvel's Ant-Man trilogy sends the MCU's tinest titans into a subatomic universe, where they — and we the viewers — get stuck.

2 new films join others at the junction of horror and comedy

5:16am February 15, 2023

NPR's A Martinez talks with writer and producer Jordan Crucchiola about movies that combine comedy and horror.