Bob Mondello
Stories
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What are your favorite director/actor collaborations?
In this week's installment of Cineplexity, NPR staffers contemplate the best director-actor collaborations in film.
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Discovering a mom we never knew, in letters she saved from WWII soldiers
Long forgotten letters from WWII help a family reconnect with a mom who would have turned 100 this year.
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Discovering a mom we never knew, in letters she saved from WWII soldiers
My sister and I recently unearthed a forgotten box of correspondence our mom received from servicemen she'd met at Red Cross dances in Rome near the end of the war. She would have been 100 this year.
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'Thunderbolts*' is a refreshing misfit hit after many Marvel misfires
Marvel's latest release is a decently effective blend of misfit mercenaries and pop psychology.
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'Sinners' is a blood-drenched, blues-infected thriller
Twin brothers, both played by Michael B. Jordan, return to their Mississippi hometown in 1932 to start a juke joint in Ryan Coogler's otherworldly tale of race and music, Sinners.
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In theaters this week: 'The Amateur' and 'Warfare'
Americans are abroad and in battle in two new films: The Amateur is a spy thriller starring Rami Malek, and Warfare is a documentary-like battlefield epic.
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The movies we love, then and now
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with movie critic Bob Mondello and culture reporter Isabella Gomez Sarmiento about movies they've loved over the years, from childhood into adulthood.
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Appreciating the many onscreen moods of Val Kilmer
More than a hundred roles in a nearly four-decade career let Val Kilmer explore a wealth of human experience.
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25 hours? Before Cory Booker, there was 'Mr. Smith'
In 1939, the character of Mr. Smith — played by Jimmy Stewart — spent 25 hours on the Senate floor railing against corruption.
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A folk legend gets a reunion he didn't sign up for in this melancholy charmer
When a folk rock legend arrives on an island off the coast of Wales for a concert, he gets more, and quite a bit less, than he expected.
