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News Articles: Movies

Pharrell Williams tells the story of his life in <em>Piece By Piece</em>

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Pharrell wanted to tell his story through Legos — here's why

The animated film Piece By Piece traces Pharrell’s early life as a boy growing up in Virginia Beach and follows his trajectory to a Grammy-winning songwriter, performer and producer.

October 08, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
A scene from the 1994 experimental film <em>Fresh Kill</em>.

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  • Movies

'Fresh Kill' imagined a contaminated city. 30 years later it feels spot-on

A septuagenarian multi-media artist is on a road trip with two young filmmakers and a new print of a groundbreaking movie she made three decades ago.

October 08, 2024
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  • Neda Ulaby
Joaquin Phoenix, left, returns as Arthur Fleck in a half-musical, half-courtroom drama sequel with co-star Lady Gaga.

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  • Movies

Despite mixed reviews, 'Joker 2' is on track to be one of the biggest comic-book-film flops

Many film critics and comic book fans say they felt the sequel felt short of their expectations. Others argue that was the whole point all along.

October 07, 2024
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  • Juliana Kim
Harper Steele and Will Ferrell roadtrip from New York to California in <em>Will & Harper.</em>

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  • Movie Interviews

'Will & Harper' navigate transition and friendship in a cross-country road trip

Will Ferrell and his longtime friend and former SNL writing partner Harper Steele traveled from New York to California, talking along the way about Steele coming out as a trans woman.

October 07, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
In 1973's <em>The Wicker Man</em>, British policeman (Edward Woodward) visits a remote Scottish island to find that the locals have embraced a form of paganism.

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  • Movies

This horror genre is scary as folk – and perfect October viewing

Folk horror is set in remote, isolated areas where nature — and the superstitions of the locals — hold sway. Think: The Wicker Man and Midsommar. It is perfect, spooky, autumnal viewing.

October 05, 2024
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  • Glen Weldon
Brad Pitt and George Clooney play competing Hollywood "fixers" in the Apple TV+ film <em>Wolfs</em>.

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  • Movie Reviews

Brad Pitt and George Clooney are perfectly cast as two old pros in 'Wolfs'

Pitt and Clooney play competing Hollywood "fixers" in this Apple TV+ film. The movie feels lazy and low-key, but these charismatic actors deftly deliver mocking silences and barbed asides.

October 04, 2024
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  • John Powers
This aerial photo shows the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, N.M., on Oct. 23, 2021, a set location used for the film <em>Rust</em>. The Western movie will premiere for the first time next month in Poland.

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  • Movies

'Rust' movie will get world premiere 3 years after cinematographer's on-set death

The Western will premiere at a Polish film festival next month at a screening to honor the cinematographer. Hutchins was killed in 2021 after a loaded prop gun handled by actor Alec Baldwin went off.

October 03, 2024
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  • Emma Bowman
Ronan Day Lewis and his father, Daniel Day-Lewis (left to right in center) are teaming up for a feature film that will bring the decorated actor out of retirement. The pair are seen here as they attended a film screening last year.

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  • Movies

Daniel Day-Lewis ends 7-year retirement to act in his son's film

The three-time Oscar winner announced the end of his acting career in 2017. The new film, Anemone, will be directed by the actor’s son, Ronan Day-Lewis, from a script that the pair co-wrote together.

October 02, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
John Amos poses for a portrait on May 11, 2016, in New York. Amos, who starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom “Good Times” and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 84.

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  • Obituaries

John Amos, star of TV's 'Good Times' and 'Roots,' dies at 84

Amos starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom “Good Times" and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries “Roots."

October 01, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Director Francis Ford Coppola at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2024.

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  • Movies

‘The movie tells you how to make it’: After decades, Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ is here

“Every movie I make involves passion,” writer and director Francis Ford Coppola says. “The Godfather is very classical. Apocalypse Now is very wild.” His latest, Megalopolis, is a Roman epic – set in New Rome, a futuristic New York City.

September 28, 2024
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  • Mandalit del Barco
Oscar, Emmy, and Tony-winning actor Maggie Smith played everything from wistful ingenues in Shakespeare to Harry Potter's Prof. McGonagall and the Dowager Countess in <em>Downton Abbey. </em>She died Friday at age 89.

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  • Obituaries

Sharp-tongued, indomitable, and beloved actress Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89

Oscar, Emmy, and Tony-winning actress Maggie Smith played everything from wistful ingenues in Shakespeare to Harry Potter's Prof. McGonagall and the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey.

September 28, 2024
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  • Bob Mondello
English actress Maggie Smith at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards, London, 25th January 1962.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Remembering the marvel, Maggie Smith

Jean Brodie, Minerva McGonagall, Violet Crawley: Maggie Smith embodied these memorable roles on stage and screen. NPR's Scott Simon has a remembrance of the actor, who died yesterday at the age of 89.

September 28, 2024
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  • Scott Simon
The host of a TV fitness show tries to defy aging in <em>The Substance.</em>

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  • Movie Reviews

See 'The Substance' and 'A Different Man' together for a major makeover meditation

Two new films seem to be in dialogue: In The Substance, Demi Moore is a Hollywood star chasing eternal youth. The dark comedy A Different Man centers on a New Yorker with a rare genetic condition.

September 26, 2024
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  • Justin Chang
Nathalie Emmanuel and Adam Driver star as Julia and Cesar in <em>Megalopolis</em>.

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  • Movie Reviews

Whatever you’ve heard about 'Megalopolis,' see this gutsy Coppola film for yourself

Francis Ford Coppola's epic draws parallels between the U.S. and ancient Rome. Forty-some years in the making, it's got wild sex, startling violence, horse-drawn chariots and even nightclub unicorns.

September 26, 2024
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  • Justin Chang
Aduba dedicates her new memoir to her mother, Nonyem Aduba. "My self-talk, the way that I motivate myself into pursuing this business ... is built out of language that my mother had given me," Aduba says.

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  • Author Interviews

Uzo Aduba thanks her mom: 'I didn't know how many prayers she sent up to heaven for me'

The Orange Is the New Black actor grew up the daughter of Nigerian immigrants in a predominantly white Massachusetts suburb. She looks back on her mother's influence in the memoir, The Road Is Good.

September 25, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
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