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  How the duo behind 'The Invite' wrote a sex comedy (that's not really about sex)

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  The new comedy film The Invite centers on an unhappy married couple who host another couple — they live upstairs — for an uncomfortable, and revelatory, evening of dinner and charcuterie. The film's screenwriters, Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, are actors who are also longtime writing and …

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  Sam Neill, known for 'Jurassic Park' and 'The Piano,' dies at 78, his family says

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  WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Sam Neill, a smoothly elegant and versatile actor whose career moved from art film to blockbuster as he dodged velociraptors in "Jurassic Park" to playing Holly Hunter's husband in "The Piano," has died. He was 78. In 2023, Neill disclosed he had been diagnosed with …

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  Why do baseball movies make for some of the most enduring sports movies?

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  Baseball isn't just America's pastime, it's also the backdrop for many of our greatest sports movies. DON GONYEA, HOST: Now time for Cineplexity, our weekly movie conversation segment where talking about the movies allows us to talk about everything else. This week, we are talking about America's …

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  'Steal This Story, Please!' unveils Amy Goodman's 30-year fight for independent news

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  "Steal This Story, Please!", a documentary about journalist Amy Goodman, is appearing at film festivals and community gatherings. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) AMY GOODMAN: Welcome to Democracy Now! - democracynow.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Amy Goodman created …

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  Azar Nafisi on the movie adaptation of her memoir 'Reading Lolita in Tehran'

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  A film adaptation of Azar Nafisi's critically praised, worldwide bestselling memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran, is now in theatres. The film, directed by Eran Riklis, follows a group of women meeting clandestinely in revolutionary Iran during the mid-1990s, to read forbidden books. Gathering in …

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  'Music belongs to the moment': Patti Smith's guitarist Lenny Kaye is 'Goin' Local'

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  Lenny Kaye has been Patti Smith's guitarist since the early days, when he was a rock critic, and she was doing poetry readings. It all started in 1971, he says: "I went over to the loft where she was living with Robert Mapplethorpe and she read me her poems and I just kind of put some rhythmic …