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Filmmaker Noah Baumbach talks about The Squid and the Whale, his new film about an ostensibly sophisticated family in mid-80s Brooklyn struggling with separation.

Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan offers a roundup of what movie critics are saying about the weekend's new film releases: Chicken Little, Jarhead and I Love Your Work.

The Land Has Eyes is the first Fijian film to be submitted for nomination for an Oscar. Linda Wertheimer speaks with its director, Vilsoni Hereniko.

Anthony Swofford's memoir of his time as a Marine in the first Iraq war, Jarhead, has been adapted to the screen. Critic Kenneth Turan says the movie has brilliant parts and excellent co-stars, but the picture rarely makes the emotional connection it's after.

A review of Get Behind Me Satan, the new album from the Detroit duo the White Stripes, by reviewer Tom Moon of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Anne Bancroft was one of the few performers to win all three major acting awards: the Oscar, two Tonys and an Emmy. She is best known for two parts: the feisty teacher Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker and Mrs. Robinson, the seductive older woman in The Graduate. Bancroft died Monday of cancer at age 73.

More than 30 years after it was filmed, a documentary that chronicles war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Vietnam is being re-released. The film, Winter Soldier, is based on the Winter Soldier Investigation of 1971, in which Vietnam veterans testified to atrocities they witnessed or participated in.

Steve Martin is at the top of his game. He has just been awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, at the same time that his newest movie, Shopgirl, is winning strong reviews around the country.

Ed Gordon talks smooth jazz with one of the biggest names in the genre, saxophonist Kim Waters. His new CD is All for Love.

Coney Island's Side Show by the Seashore is a throwback to the days when circuses and carnivals flourished. A proposed Las Vegas-style entertainment complex is a real threat, but the Side Show attraction remains, with its nostalgic charms.