Not so fast, Netflix. Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery Paramount has launched a hostile bid for the company that's home to Casablanca, Batman and CNN. Just Friday, Netflix and Warner Brothers executives were celebrating a deal they had struck. David Folkenflik
Do Oscar wins make directors more daring? What happens when a director tries to follow up an Oscar win, with NPR's Marc Rivers and film critic Kyle Wilson. Miles Parks
Let 'The Secret Agent' fill you in on what it's like to live under a dictatorship A research scientist is on the run from hitmen in this thrilling film. Set in 1977 Brazil, The Secret Agent captures the daily realities and surreal absurdities of life in an authoritarian state. John Powers
George Clooney's kids don't care about his success (and that's a good thing) In Jay Kelly, Clooney plays an emotionally stunted movie star struggling with work and family life. He can relate: "We're all balancing it. We're never getting it perfect." Tonya Mosley
Filmmaker Jafar Panahi is sentenced again in Iran as Hollywood's awards season starts Panahi's latest film, It Was Just an Accident, won three Gotham Awards on Monday. The filmmaker has been imprisoned in Iran before — but continues to make movies. Alina Edwards
Remembering Dorothy Vogel, who collected art with her husband on civil servant salaries Librarian Dorothy Vogel, who, with her late husband Herb, amassed a priceless collection of contemporary art in their one bedroom apartment, died on Nov. 10.
Photojournalist Lynsey Addario on balancing work and family — when work is a war zone The Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist has been kidnapped and thrown from a car. Still, Addario says, parenting two young kids can be more challenging than war reporting. Sam Fragoso
Why some movies grow stale NPR's Marc Rivers and Mallory Yu revisit the movies that haven't aged well and explore why they fall apart on rewatch. Mallory Yu
This new movie about Russia's independent journalists is harrowing, but not hopeless My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow follows Russian journalists who report on the country's abuses. Reviewer Justin Chang calls it one of the most engrossing films he's seen all year. Justin Chang
There's reason to be optimistic about the the movies coming this holiday season A selective preview of the comedies, action adventures, dramas and awards contenders Hollywood has in store between Thanksgiving and the end of 2025. Bob Mondello