Month: May 2025

“Wasted Love,” sung by the classically trained countertenor JJ, beat out 25 other songs for the top prize at the international competition held this year in Basel, Switzerland.

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The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is underway. NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with New York Magazine critic Alison Willmore about the year’s lineup.

Hollywood’s plummeting film and TV production levels have studio executives and grassroots groups pushing for better incentives to keep business in California.

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This week, we celebrate the arrival of spring with special guests Josh Gad, Gretchen Whitmer, GWAR, Kara Jackson, and Amber Maykut!

On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don’t talk about. Comedian Wanda Sykes talks about why it took her decades of work to feel like she had the career she wanted.

Bobby was a good guy. But sometimes he’d do weird shit like put his hand on my head, unprompted, which was annoying.

NPR’s Juana Summers talks with filmmaker Ava DuVernay about her lifetime achievement award speech at the Smithsonian American History Museum.

You can’t beat death. That’s the message of the Final Destination film franchise. Almost 15 years after the last new installment, we’re back with Final Destination Bloodlines, a movie all about the fact that you really, really, really can’t beat death. It will come for you, and in fact, it may come for your whole family — in the most convoluted, bloody, gnarly ways it possibly can.

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Hadi Matar got the maximum sentence for attempted murder. He was found guilty in February for repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie during a 2022 lecture and wounding another person on stage.

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The Apple TV+ show takes what might be the oldest sci-fi premise there is — what does it mean to be human? — and mines it for comedy gold.

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