Bob Mondello
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Movies
Review: 'F9' Puts The Pedal To The Metal To Restart The Hollywood Blockbuster
F9, the latest film in the Fast & Furious franchise is also the film that's supposed to restart the Hollywood blockbuster.
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National
'In The Heights' Box Office Fizzle May Indicate An Audience Seeking Familiar Faces
The screen adaptation of In the Heights opened to less-than-expected box office results. Those numbers may indicate what audiences are looking for as theaters reopen this summer.
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Arts & Life
Summer Movie Season Roars Back, From Action-Packed Blockbusters To Biopics
Film studios have lots of enticements to get people back in theaters, now that they're back in business. We look at the art house treasures and would-be blockbusters Hollywood has in store.
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Arts & Life
It's Now Possible: Performers Of Color Could Win All Four Acting Oscars
With wins for Youn Yuh-jung as Best Supporting Actress, and Daniel Kaluuya for Best Supporting Actor, there is a real possibility that performers of color will sweep all four Oscars for acting.
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Movies
A Writer's Memoir About Her Clerical Job Becomes The Movie 'My Salinger Year'
A young writer gets a clerical job with the book agent representing J.D. Salinger in My Salinger Year, a movie based on the memoir by Joanna Rakoff.
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Arts & Life
Movie Review: 'The Father'
An elderly pensioner, played by Anthony Hopkins, refuses all assistance, to the distress of his daughter, played by Olivia Colman, in the dementia drama The Father.
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Movies
Review: 'Minari,' An American Story Of Uncommon Warmth And Grace
A family of Korean immigrants resettles in Arkansas in the Sundance favorite and Golden Globe nominee, Minari.
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Movies
Star-Studded Cast Brings John Lee Hancock's Serial Killer Film To Life
Denzel Washington and Rami Malek are on the trail of a serial killer in The Little Things. Written and directed by John Lee Hancock, the film draws from a script Hancock wrote nearly 30 years ago.
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Arts & Life
Farewell To Our Senior Arts Editor Tom Cole
Tom Cole, senior editor on NPR's Arts Desk, is retiring after 33 years of shepherding thousands of art pieces to broadcast. NPR bids him farewell.
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Health
Putting A Roof On Risk With A COVID-19 Vaccine Jab
NPR's Bob Mondello is back from his vaccination appointment and feeling safer.