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'The Waiting Game' doc exposes ABA players' fight for recognition and justice

Beth Accomando

"The Waiting Game" chronicles the battle between the NBA and a small nonprofit working to gain full recognition for the men of the ABA.
In 'The Roses,' Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman play a couple at odds

Kira Wakeam

Courtney Dorning

Mary Louise Kelly

The actors tell All Things Considered host Mary Louise Kelly that their close relationship as real-life friends helped them get through some of their most toxic moments on screen.
Get caught up in family drama at the movie theater this weekend

Bob Mondello

Glen Weldon

In The Roses, Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch play a vicious couple spiraling toward divorce. A Little Prayer tells a more tender story about a relationship on the rocks.
Science & Technology

Tonic the cat is 'Caught Stealing' the show in a new action comedy

Mandalit del Barco

The fluffy Siberian forest cat upstages Austin Butler, Zoe Kravitz, Regina King and Bad Bunny in the new action comedy Caught Stealing.
Fans across the country raise their voices at 'KPop Demon Hunters' singalongs

Chloe Veltman

Netflix's wildly popular movie about a fictitious all-girl rock band is hitting nearly 1,800 movie theaters around the country this weekend as a singalong version.
'Weapons' exposes the dark underbelly of American suburbia

Justin Chang

Small-town life is upended when 17 schoolchildren suddenly vanish without explanation in the middle of the night. Weapons is a spooky thriller that invites deeper interpretation.
A box office record-setter you've never heard of and more in theaters this weekend

Bob Mondello

Aisha Harris

Ne Zha II has been raking in money in cinemas worldwide. Now the story based in Chinese mythology is out with an English voice cast.
Arts & Culture

San Diego weekend arts events: Dance, dinosaurs and California grasses

Julia Dixon Evans

This weekend in the arts in San Diego: "Alex Katz: Theater and Dance" at MCASD; the San Diego Symphony takes on "Jurassic Park"; Helena Westra's "Lying Fallow” at the Athenaeum Art Center and more.
In 'Lurker' a social striver squirms his way into a star's inner circle

Aisha Harris

This new film about a fan who gets close with an up-and-coming pop star lingers on the ways a relationship that might seem parasitic is closer to symbiotic.
Politics

'Can't stop. Won't stop': Documentary filmmakers face federal funding shortfall

Chloe Veltman

PBS has been a home for independent documentaries for more than 50 years. But with the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, nonfiction storytellers have to figure out a way forward.