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Movies

Ayo (Florence Kasumba, left) and Okoye (Danai Gurira) are members of the Dora Milaje, the elite female warriors of Wakanda, in Black Panther.</em
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Arts & Entertainment

The fierce female characters of film in 2018

In 2018, movie theaters offered a range of explorations of women and power: how they wield it, fight for it, abuse it.

7 years ago

Flicks

Christian Bale and Amy Adams for “Vice”

Air Date: December 27, 2018

Mr. Rogers, subject of the 2018 documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor, rehearsing for a taping of his television show Mr. Roger's Neighborhood in 1989. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
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Arts & Entertainment

The best movies of 2018

Guests: Neil Oxman, Gary Thompson 2018 is winding down, which means it’s time to take a look at the best movies ...

Air Date: December 27, 2018 10:00 am

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Flicks

Felicity Jones and Armie Hammer for “On the Basis of Sex”

Felicity Jones & Armie Hammer talk with Patrick Stoner about Ruth Bader Ginsburg & bringing her early life, marriage & his ...

Air Date: December 20, 2018

Penny Marshall played Laverne in Laverne & Shirley and went on to have a career as a Hollywood director. She died Monday at the age of 75. (ABC Photo Archives/Getty Images)
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Arts & Entertainment

Penny Marshall, filmmaker and ‘Laverne & Shirley’ star, dies at 75

Penny Marshall, who became a household name playing Laverne in Laverne & Shirley, died Monday night at her Los Angeles home from complications of diabetes.

7 years ago

Flicks

Clint Eastwood for “The Mule”

Air Date: December 13, 2018

Black Panther, Roma, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Widows, A Star is Born and Eighth Grade all made NPR's favorite-movie list.
(Top) Marvel Studios/Netflix/Universal Pictures; (bottom) 20th Century Fox/Warner Bros./A24
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Arts & Entertainment

NPR’s favorite movies of 2018

Bob Mondello, Linda Holmes and Glen Weldon would never agree on a single list of best movies of the year. But here are 15 of the movies we admired and will remember.

7 years ago

Father Michael Doyle talks about his role in the Camden 28, a group of activists who in 1971 broke into a draft board office to destroy the records of draft registrants in protest of the Vietnam War.
Politics & Policy

Camden 28 revisit court where they were tried for ’71 break-in to protest Vietnam War

As war casualties mounted, several draft board raids occurred throughout the country. But the Camden 28 case was the only one where all defendants were acquitted.

7 years ago

Flicks

Michael B. Jordan for “Creed II”

Air Date: November 28, 2018

Flicks

Hugh Jackman for “The Front Runner”

Hugh Jackman talks with Patrick Stoner about playing Senator Gary Hart & the change in politics from that time in “The Front Runne ...

Air Date: November 21, 2018

Flicks

Rosamund Pike for “A Private War”

Rosamund Pike talks with Patrick Stoner about playing the heroic journalist Marie Colvin in “A Private War.” ...

Air Date: November 15, 2018

Comic book legend Stan Lee poses at the opening reception for
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Arts & Entertainment

Marvel of a man: Stan Lee dead at 95

7 years ago

Flicks
Arts & Entertainment

Claire Foy and Sverrir Gudnason for “The Girl in the Spider’s Web”

Air Date: November 9, 2018

Flicks

Aaron Taylor Johnson and Chris Pine for “The Outlaw King”

Chris Pine & Aaron Taylor Johnson talk with Patrick Stoner about bringing alive the Scottish past in the true story of the rebellion ...

Air Date: November 8, 2018

On the set of East of La Brea at the Islamic Center of Southern California. The Web series, which focuses on two Muslim-American women, is one of a new crop of shows featuring Muslim characters. (Leila Fadel/NPR)
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Arts & Entertainment

Muslims are having a Hollywood moment

Several projects by and about Muslims are in the pipeline or have recently debuted in the entertainment industry.

7 years ago

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