Here's To The Romantic Comedy Pleasures Of 'To All The Boys I've Loved Before'
Well, it's safe to say Netflix giveth and Netflix taketh away. Only a week after the Grand Takething that was Insatiable , the streamer brings along To All The Boys I've Loved Before , a fizzy and...
View ArticleNPR's Fall TV Preview: 20 Shows To Watch Out For
Television is more year-round than it used to be, but fall is still a time when broadcast, cable and streaming services drop a lot of premieres. How to keep track of it all? NPR's television and pop...
View ArticleAt The 2018 Emmys, 'Game Of Thrones' And 'Mrs. Maisel' Soar While The Hosts...
Rarely has the opening of an awards show felt as inauspicious as the first 10 minutes or so of Monday night's Emmy Awards. An opening number called "We Solved It," making light of the idea that...
View ArticleTed Turner Opens Up About Having Lewy Body Dementia
On Sunday's CBS Sunday Morning, Ted Koppel reminisced about the many profiles of media giant Ted Turner that have aired on the network, beginning all the way back in the 1970s, when he hadn't started...
View ArticleNPR's Movie Preview: 15 New Films To Watch — And Watch Out For — This Fall
Fall is often the most intense movie season of all. Awards contenders begin to come into focus after the Toronto International Film Festival, while comedies and thrillers continue to hit screens. We...
View Article'First Man' Considers Glory, Grief And A Famous Walk On The Moon
"You're bouncing off the atmosphere." Early in director Damien Chazelle's First Man , this is one of the cautions given to Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) during his pilot training, years before he...
View ArticleAddiction Without An Ending In 'Beautiful Boy'
What if you were trapped in the middle of a traditional addiction narrative forever? In a traditional fictional addiction narrative, the person with the addiction begins the story able to coexist with...
View ArticleFrom TV To Movies, How Corruption Plays Out On Our Screens
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Here's a theme that seems to be set on repeat the last few years - corruption. Whether it's elected officials abusing the public trust,...
View ArticleThe Golden Globe Nominations: Still Weird, But Not Tipsy Quite Yet
Are the Golden Globes an awards milestone that sometimes suggests where the season might be going? A genuine opportunity to recognize a fresher batch of shows and films than sometimes dominate the...
View ArticleIntroducing 'The Masked Singer,' Featuring Television's Hottest Peacock-Hippo...
If you've always wondered what a sing-off between the Phillie Phanatic and Goofy from Disneyland would look like, The Masked Singer is about as close as you're going to get. It premiered on Fox on...
View ArticleGolden Globes: 'Bohemian Rhapsody' And 'Green Book' Win Big
You'll find a lot of 2018 films more loved by critics than Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody , but both have found enthusiastic audiences. On Sunday night, they were the big winners in film at the...
View ArticleEveryone Is A Traveler As The CW Returns To 'Roswell, New Mexico'
As turn-of-the-millennium YA soaps on television go, Roswell was no Buffy or Dawson's Creek , but it had its devotees. Furthermore, it was the big break for both Shiri Appleby and Katherine Heigl, both...
View ArticleHulu And Netflix Release Documentaries To Shed Light On Failed Fyre Festival
Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Fyre Festival - that is F-Y-R-E - was supposed to be the music festival of 2017. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED NARRATOR: The...
View ArticleMarie Kondo's Netflix Show Aims To Help People Declutter
Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: Four years ago, a Japanese organizing consultant published a book that was called "The Life Changing Magic Of Tidying Up." (SOUNDBITE OF TV...
View Article'Roma' And 'The Favourite' Lead The Pack In Oscar Nominations
Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And leading the pack with today's Oscar nominations - "Roma" and "The Favourite." And here's a quick sampling of the eight contenders for...
View ArticleWith No Host Directing Traffic, 'Green Book' Drives Away With Best Picture
It turns out the Oscars telecast doesn't need a host. Sure, the headline coming out of Sunday's Oscars is that Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody were big winners — Green Book won three including best...
View ArticleReality TV Roundup
Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you are a fan of reality TV - it's OK, you can admit it, a lot of people are - chances are, you've heard about some big news, specifically...
View ArticleFears Are Forever In Jordan Peele's 'Twilight Zone'
Old stuff spoiler alert: This piece discusses the plot of Jordan Peele's Get Out and the plots of a handful of old Twilight Zone episodes, but doesn't spoil episodes from the new run that debuts...
View ArticleBrie Larson's Directorial Debut Glitters With The Charming 'Unicorn Store'
"Bringing a unicorn here is not an easy or inexpensive endeavor. You have to be the right sort of girl." The right sort of girl. The backbone of Brie Larson's offbeat directorial debut, the comedy...
View ArticleThe Record-Breaking Box Office Of 'Avengers: Endgame,' By The (Huge) Numbers
Avengers: Endgame is the culmination of a hugely profitable series of films that began with Iron Man in 2008. It makes sense that the opening weekend of the concluding chapter — which also happens to...
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