Movie Sequels: This Decades' Never-Ending Story

Hollywood's Got A Bad Case Of Sequelitis This Year
This year, Hollywood will release 28 movie sequels — more than any other year — and while all these Part 2s, 3s and 4s may be good for the industry's bottom line, it's making NPR movie...

Critical Mass: Bob Mondello, Trey Graham On 'For...
Film critic Bob Mondello and NPR.org arts editor Trey Graham talk about Tyler Perry's adaptation 'For Colored Girls,' and about its transition from a transformative play to a controversial...

At The Movies, A String Of Futures Passed
We're five years from the hover boards promised in Back to the Future. But wait, didn't The Terminator indicate that the apocalypse should have struck more than a decade ago? NPR's Bob...

Heigh-Ho! Mozart

Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part I
Alexander Wheelock Thayer's Life of Beethoven has long been regarded as the classic biography of Beethoven. Thayer's approach to biography was to present in chronological order the factual...