In SLY LIVES!, Questlove documents the genius of a funk trailblazer — and the pressure Sly felt as a Black artist. "Sly will be ... the first domino in a long list of people that will self-sabotage."
As a kid, Grande loved singing karaoke with her family. "I looked up to Whitney and Mariah and Celine endlessly," she says. "I think that's a large part of the reason why I learned to sing."
Pamela Anderson's role as a lifeguard on Baywatch made her a global sex symbol in the '90s. But she longed to be taken seriously as a performer and person. Her new film is The Last Showgirl.
Eisenberg's film follows two cousins on a Jewish heritage tour of Poland, which includes a stop at the Majdanek death camp. The story draws on his own family history — and his struggle with OCD.
Swinton plays a woman dying of cancer in Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door. "A life spent considering how we're going to spend our end is not wasted time," Swinton says.
Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language film, The Room Next Door, is a meditation on death. Writing and making movies "is a way of running away from death," the Spanish director says.
Director Tim Fehlbaum's new film September 5 is centered on how the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre changed the way media outlets cover major global stories, especially those involving acts of terror.
Getting footage from the ground was essential for filmmaker Sahra Mani, the director of Bread & Roses. Her documentary, which profiles three women who engage in protests, is now streaming on Apple TV+.
Gomez grew up speaking Spanish, but lost her fluency around the same time she began her Hollywood career as a kid. She spent months relearning the language for her latest role as the wife of a Mexican cartel boss.
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Emily Watson and Olivia Williams, who play the leads in the HBO prequel series "Dune: Prophecy." The season premiere airs on Max on November 17.
The new film Emilia Pérez follows a Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) who was assigned male at birth but transitions to become her true self as a woman.
Ronan credits her parents and the filmmakers she worked with as a child for keeping acting fun. She stars as a woman struggling with addiction in The Outrun and as a World War II mother in Blitz.
Kaphar draws on his own painful relationship with his father in his film, Exhibiting Forgiveness. He says the project gave him "a sympathy for my father that I never had as a young man."
