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‘Snow White,’ and 4 more movies coming to theaters this weekend : NPR

Rachel Zegler as Snow White in Disney’s live action remake. Disney hide caption toggle caption Disney How’s this for a set-up?: An embattled Disney princess, a steroid-addled bodybuilder and a trapped carjacker meet at the cineplex and chaos ensues, complicated by a traumatized actress and a mysterious semi-stranger. Needs work, right? Here’s the scoop on

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Politics

Pawan Kalyan’s ‘Oppose Hindi But Dub Movies’ Jab At Tamil Nadu Adds Fresh Spark, Prakash Raj Reacts

Last Updated:March 15, 2025, 13:40 IST Pawan Kalyan criticised Tamil Nadu politicians for opposing Hindi but allowing their movies to be dubbed in Hindi for financial gain. He called for embracing linguistic diversity in India. Actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan backed BJP in the language war between DMK and Centre. (PTI/File) Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister and

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Entertainment

How the COVID lockdown affected how movies are made and seen

Americans spent much of the COVID lockdown inside their homes streaming movies in isolation. Five years on it is clear that COVID left its mark on how movies were made and consumed.

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Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now

‘The Paragon’ Stream it on Amazon Prime Video. The last time a dryly zany comedy from New Zealand involving fantastical shenanigans made me laugh this much, it was the original “What We Do in the Shadows.” Michael Duignan’s new film may not quite reach that level, but it is still very funny. A former tennis

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10 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week

‘Black Bag’ Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender star as Kathryn and George, a married couple of glamorous spies who turn their espionage skills against each other. From our review: “Black Bag” is the third movie written by David Koepp and directed by Steven Soderbergh that’s been released since 2022, and it’s a banger. It’s also

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4 movies coming to theaters this weekend : NPR

Cate Blanchett as Kathryn St. Jean and Michael Fassbender as George Woodhouse in Black Bag, director Steven Soderbergh’s new spy thriller. Claudette Barius/Focus Features hide caption toggle caption Claudette Barius/Focus Features Five years ago, mid-March saw COVID-19 shut down the world. This year, it’ll see Porky and Daffy try not to blow the Earth up.

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Science

How COVID-19 is still impacting movies – and theaters : NPR

Moviegoers wait for their movie to start at the AMC Burbank in Burbank, Calif. on reopening day in March 2021. Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images As good as Hollywood is at imagining alternate realities, it didn’t see this one coming. The first weekend in March 2020,

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Like ‘Mickey 17?’ Watch These Movies About Clones Next.

In “Mickey 17” (in theaters) Robert Pattinson plays a former pastry chef and an amiable dimwit who applies for a lousy, inevitably lethal job on a contaminated ice planet. As an Expendable, Mickey goes into the worst sorts of situations, dies in some horrible way — you know, for the mission — then gets cloned

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Five International Movies to Stream Now

‘Coconut Head Generation’ Stream it on Ovid. A room, a dusty projector and a small screen mounted on the wall. That’s pretty much all there is to the Thursday Film Series, a movie club started by students at the prestigious University of Ibadan in Nigeria, which forms the focus of Alain Kassanda’s documentary. But from

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5 Children’s Movies to Stream Now

During his acceptance speech at the Oscars on Sunday, the Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis (“Away”) spoke about overcoming our differences, a central theme of his movie and a lesson that feels more urgent today than ever. “Flow,” which won best animated feature film, is the dreamy tale of a black cat with huge, expressive yellow

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