NPR15 hours agoA preview of some of the hot movies that lie ahead this summerverified_publisherNPR - Bob MondelloHere's a selective look ahead at the summer's potential blockbusters, awards contenders and crowd-pleasers. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: This weekend is the start of the summer movie season, with Disney's "Little Mermaid" leading the charge. Studios raced to finish summer attractions before the writers' …
NPR1 day ago'All Wigged Out' is about fighting cancer with humor and humanityverified_publisherNPR - Barry GordemerWhen Grammy-Award-winning musician Marcy Marxer learned she had breast cancer, she didn't get sad or mad. She got funny. Marxer, who's one half of the award-winning duo, Cathy and Marcy started posting cartoons, memes and musings on social media as a way updating friends on her cancer treatments. …
NPR1 day agoThe musical comedy 'All Wigged Out,' fights cancer with humor and humanityverified_publisherNPRGrammy Award-winning musicians Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer have created a short movie musical — All Wigged Out — about Marxer's treatment and recovery from breast cancer.
NPR1 day agoActors Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michaela Watkins talk new movie 'You Hurt My Feelings'verified_publisherNPR - Ayesha RascoeNPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with actors Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michaela Watkins about their new film "You Hurt My Feelings", which questions how much honesty we need to support the ones we love. AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: The new movie "You Hurt My Feelings" has a simple premise. A novelist discovers her …
NPR2 days ago'Anatomy of a Fall' wins the top prize at the Cannes Film Festivalverified_publisherNPR - The Associated PressJustine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall won the Palme d'Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in a ceremony Saturday that bestowed the festival's prestigious top prize on an engrossing, rigorously plotted French courtroom drama that puts a marriage on trial. Anatomy of a Fall, which stars Sandra Hüller as a …
NPR3 days agoDisney rolls out its latest remake, 'The Little Mermaid'verified_publisherNPR - Juana SummersHas Disney done it again? And if they have, should they ... stop? These are some of the questions on our minds as Disney's remake of The Little Mermaid hits theaters. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Has Disney done it again? And if they have, should they maybe stop? (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE LITTLE MERMAID") DAVEED …
