Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Women in power take the big screen this weekend
“Jackie” is an intimate and unconventional biopic of Jackie Kennedy, starring Natalie Portman. The thriller “Miss Sloane” features Jessica Chastain as a high-powered, present-day lobbyist on a mission. “Things to Come” is a French film about a philosophy professor hit by crisis.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min read“Jackie” is an intimate and unconventional biopic of Jackie Kennedy, starring Natalie Portman. The thriller “Miss Sloane” features Jessica Chastain as a high-powered, present-day lobbyist on a mission. “Things to Come” is a French film about a philosophy professor hit by crisis.
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Anna Scott
Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter
Jolie Myers
Managing Producer, 'Press Play'
Katie Walsh
film reviewer for the Tribune News Service, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wrap
Kyle Buchanan
pop culture writer for the New York Times, author of “Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road”
The full episode
4 of 5Life in San Bernardino, one year after the terrorist attack- 0:00Life in San Bernardino, one year after the terrorist attack
- 10:12Tracking mass shootings nationwide
- 18:10Is the Anglo-American world order over?
- 28:29Women in power take the big screen this weekendYou’re reading this
- 41:54How Starbucks shaped American coffee culture