For this next story, we're going to take you back in time to a 1950s true crime story. It's about murder, execution by hanging and legal mistakes that led Britain to abolish its death penalty. NPR's ...

In 1955, Ruth Ellis was hanged for killing her abusive partner. Her case became one of the catalysts for abolishing the death penalty in the UK, and 70 years later her family is seeking a posthumous ...

Mohammed Ali Naqvi's Sundance-premiering doc chronicles a dramatic 2023 gondola accident in rural Pakistan.

In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2025, Justin Chang, Alison Willmore, and Bilge Ebiri—about the year in cinema. Hi, guys! Funnily enough, I was ...

2026 is here, so let's look at what Hollywood's got in store for us over the next 12 months, ranging from horror and sci-fi to superheroes and fantasy to whatever Disney and Pixar have planned. The ...

Movies went above and beyond when it came to pushing sexual boundaries in 2025. Shanks added that the “low-budget” element of production also required two people who were innately comfortable with ...

Isn't the book always better than the movie? I mean, oftentimes, yes, but that doesn’t mean a great book won't be the source material for a great movie. As a book-reader, I'm almost always going to ...

I mean, who doesn’t like going for a walk in the rain? And if you are not one of them, you must admit that one still enjoys sitting through those romantic rain scenes in movies. Rain is undoubtedly ...

NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio — Ruth Miller, the Amish mother of four accused of murdering her 4-year-old son at Atwood Lake last August, appeared in the Tuscarawas County Court of Common Pleas Monday for a ...