Movies 'Sex and the City' Ladies Settle Down with Style Fresh Air May 30, 2008 • Four years after Sex and the City's TV finale, Carrie Bradshaw and her posse return — a little older, a little more settled, but with Cosmos still in hand. If you loved the TV show, the movie will fly by; if you hated it, brace yourself. 'Sex and the City' Ladies Settle Down with Style Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90975413/91001769" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Movies 'City' Girls, Talking Love and Marriage — At Length May 30, 2008 • New York's favorite femmes are back — just in time for Carrie and Big to get hitched. Director Michael Patrick King knows what fans want — and serves up plenty, with a Sex romp that clocks in just shy of two-and-a-half hours. 'City' Girls, Talking Love and Marriage — At Length Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90882848/91007268" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Movies In 'Stuck,' Sticky Situations for All Concerned May 29, 2008 • Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) starts with a torn-from-the-tabloids tale of a motorist who hits and runs — and the pedestrian who goes along for the ride, stuck in her windshield. Gordon's additions? Vivid, gruesome and just what the thrill doctor ordered.
Movies When 'Strangers' Come Calling, It's Hard Knocks May 29, 2008 • Masked strangers terrorize a couple at a remote mountain cabin. Suspenseful? Intriguing? Only the latter — and only as you wonder what possessed Liv Tyler to take a role in this sadistic, unmotivated mess.
Arts & Life Indiana Jones Returns on Hunt for Crystal Skulls May 23, 2008 • Fresh Air's film critic says the set-up is smart — but the setups are wittier than the payoffs, and oh, what lackluster tasks await the aging adventurer and his spawn. Indiana Jones Returns on Hunt for Crystal Skulls Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90762339/90769946" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Arts & Life Huang Shi's 'Children,' Orphaned Again Onscreen May 22, 2008 • A British journalist, an American nurse and a Chinese partisan join forces to protect 60 orphaned children in war-torn 1930s China. Roger Spottiswoode's movie is inspired by a true story — but itself turns out to be thoroughly uninspired.
Movies With Indy in His 'Kingdom,' What Could Go Wrong? May 22, 2008 • Filmdom's favorite archaeologist is back — this time facing Russian spies and legions of Mayans. Like the earlier Raiders sequels, this one's inventively conceived, capably managed and amusing enough to please those already hooked. With Indy in His 'Kingdom,' What Could Go Wrong? Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90605633/90736287" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Arts & Life Lives, and Plots, Tangled at 'The Edge of Heaven' May 21, 2008 • Lives, nations and worldviews intersect in Fatih Akin's complex drama, which boasts delicately shaded performances from a cast led by Turkish national treasure Tuncel Kurtiz and German film icon Hannah Schygulla.
Movies Back to Narnia, Where Bland Prince Caspian Broods May 16, 2008 • A Narnian epoch has passed in the single year since the Pevensie siblings last went through the wardrobe. Now the land is ruled by an evil general, while the rightful heir lives in exile.
Movies 'Caspian' Recaptures Galloping Magic of 'Narnia' May 16, 2008 • Morning Edition and Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan reviews The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, the second installment of the fantasy series by C.S. Lewis to be adapted into a film. 'Caspian' Recaptures Galloping Magic of 'Narnia' Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90506945/90506919" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Movies In 'Reprise,' a Vague Ambition Artfully Pursued May 15, 2008 • Two friends in their 20s, idealistic would-be authors both, send their first novels to the publisher — only to find that the repercussions shake them to the core.
Arts & Life 'Speed Racer': It's Hell, Wachowski Style, on Wheels May 8, 2008 • How can something look so bright, and move so fast, and still be so dull? Oh, right: The creators of The Matrix are involved. 'Speed Racer': It's Hell, Wachowski Style, on Wheels Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90201628/90289404" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Arts & Life In 'XXY,' a Teen Affair, If Trickier than Most May 8, 2008 • Fifteen-year-old Alex was born with both male and female sex organs, and that singularity is starting to matter. A doctor offers help, but it's the medico's 16-year-old son whose attentions interest Alex. Quirky, sharply observed performances, paired with tricky questions about identity, gender and sexuality.
Arts & Life 'What Happens in Vegas': Not Much to Laugh About May 8, 2008 • On one wild night in Sin City, two strangers drink themselves into unholy matrimony. When one hits the jackpot with the other's coin, a fight over marriage and money begins — and a predictable romantic comedy ensues.
Arts & Life 'Son of Rambow': An Unlikely Action Hero May 2, 2008 • A British boys-school hellion and his shy, sheltered patsy make a homegrown sequel to Rambo: First Blood. Garth Jennings' film is cheerfully ramshackle, childishly overstated, and pretty darn appealing. 'Son of Rambow': An Unlikely Action Hero Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/89846955/90142676" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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