Great 2020 Movies You May Have Missed
We spent a lot of time watching movies in 2020. Plenty of our favorites ended up on this show, but with release schedules scrambled and publicity scattered, there are still things that manage to …
We spent a lot of time watching movies in 2020. Plenty of our favorites ended up on this show, but with release schedules scrambled and publicity scattered, there are still things that manage to …
In 1995, critics howled and self-appointed guardians of good taste were horrified at the release of Showgirls. Directed by Paul Verhoeven with a screenplay by Joe Eszterhas, the NC-17 film was a …
What if you took Gossip Girl and set it in Regency-era London, where members of the aristocracy plot to find love, sex and spouses? You’d have Bridgerton. Created by Chris Van Dusen, Bridgerton is …
The game show Card Sharks has lived many lives: It’s been on NBC, on CBS, in syndication, and now it’s on ABC, in prime time, hosted by Joel McHale. The game seems simple — you’re guessing whether a …
Every year, NPR brings together some of the best books of the year in a searchable, explorable guide called the Book Concierge. Today we’re talking about some of the love stories that show up in …
It’s the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, as much as it seemed like we might never get here. That means we’re looking back, and we’re looking ahead. What did we resolve to do in 2020, did we …
To say we could not have predicted the course of 2020 is a ridiculous understatement. But nevertheless, we press on. We’ll check in on last year’s predictions, while turning our eyes to the future …
The 2017 movie Coco is about a Mexican boy named Miguel who has an adventure on Día de los Muertos, a holiday dedicated to remembering the dead. He finds himself in the Land of the Dead, where he …
In Disney and Pixar’s Soul, a jazz musician voiced by Jamie Foxx falls down a manhole and finds himself teetering between life and the afterlife. He winds up on a New York adventure with a wandering …
Wonder Woman 1984 arrives as one of the biggest films yet to stream at home at the same time it hits theaters. Like its successful predecessor, 2017’s Wonder Woman, it’s directed by Patty Jenkins …