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In 1973's Soylent Green, New York City is in the grips of widespread pollution and overcrowding. It takes place in 2022. Screenshot by NPR hide caption
Max Julien, as he appeared in the groundbreaking 1973 film The Mack. Courtesy of SCM Entertainment and Media hide caption
Betty White at the 41st Annual People's Choice Awards in 2015. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption
Alexander Skarsgård stars as Amleth and Anya Taylor-Joy as Olga in director Robert Eggers' Viking epic The Northman. Aidan Monaghan/© 2021 Focus Features, LLC hide caption
Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut, The Lost Daughter, offers a unique depiction of motherhood. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images hide caption
Maggie Gyllenhaal explores the difficulty of motherhood in her directorial debut
Cate Blanchett, Tyler Perry, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jennifer Lawrence in Don't Look Up. Niko Tavernise/Netlfix hide caption
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'Don't Look Up' is an environmental satire that squanders its resources
'Don't Look Up' is an environmental satire that squanders its resources
A page from the book The Me I Choose to Be by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley with photography by Regis and Kahran Bethencourt. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers hide caption
Kids need to see themselves reflected in media. Here are some recommendations
Vanessa Hudgens, Vanessa Hudgens, and Vanessa Hudgens starring in The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star. Mark Mainz/NETFLIX © 2021/Mark Mainz/NETFLIX © 2021 hide caption
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand play Shakespeare's famously murderous couple in The Tragedy of Macbeth. Apple TV+ hide caption
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This 'Macbeth' adaptation distills Shakespeare's tragedy to its furious essence
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This 'Macbeth' adaptation distills Shakespeare's tragedy to its furious essence
Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves return as Trinity and Neo in The Matrix Resurrections. Warner Bros. hide caption
Much of the movie 'Contact' was filmed at the Very Large Array in New Mexico. Erin Slonaker/Moment Editorial/Getty Images hide caption
Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem star in Being the Ricardos. Glen Wilson/Amazon Content Services hide caption
This artist concept shows NASA Dawn spacecraft arriving at the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn travels through space using a technology called ion propulsion, with ions glowing with blue light are accelerated out of an engine, giving the spacecraft thrust. NASA/JPL-Caltech hide caption
Cate Blanchett and Bradley Cooper in Nightmare Alley. Kerry Hayes/Searchlight Pictures hide caption
Bradley Cooper is Guillermo del Toro's monster in 'Nightmare Alley'
In Sing 2, a troupe of singing animals take a big gamble on hitting it big in a Vegas-like resort. Illumination hide caption