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Film critic David Edelstein reviews The Class, the Oscar-nominated French film about a high school class in an impoverished Paris neighborhood.

The Oscar-nominated film Slumdog Millionaire is a small movie with a big heart, and perhaps no one appreciates its rags-to-riches theme as much as Dev Patel, the 18-year-old Londoner who plays the lead.

"Take the A Train," the signature tune of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, was recorded on this day in 1941. Host Liane Hansen looks at the story behind the song.

In 2006, Grammy-winning rock singer Rick Springfield returned to the ABC soap opera General Hospital, reprising the role of Dr. Noah Drake, which he played in the early 1980s. Madeleine Brand talked with Springfield, co-star Jacklyn Zeman and others about Springfield's return.

Filmmaker Pete Docter's new movie is Pixar Studio's animated film Up. Docter discusses how his team of writers and animators struck a balance between the very adult themes in the film and the colorful and buoyant adventure story for kids.

Can superhero movies teach audiences about science? Dave Gibbons, author and artist of the Watchmen comic series, discusses the science behind the superheroes in his story. Physics professor James Kakalios talks about teaching science to the Watchmen actors and stuntmen.

A few weeks ago we asked NPR staffers to share their favorite summer reads. Old, new, fiction, nonfiction — as long as it was great for hot and hazy hammock reading, it was fair game.

The television show is more than sci-fi swashbuckling. It's about human rights and terrorism, about the nature of conflict and what it means to be human. In fact, the show's themes are so relevant to what's happening in the world today that a screening and discussion panel was organized this week at the United Nations.

A new translation of Carlo Collodi's 1881 classic Pinocchio reveals a puppet that's much darker than Walt Disney might have you believe. Critic-at-large John Powers has a review.

In commemoration of National Poetry Month, 12-year-old poet Lorenzo Arce talks about expressing his feelings through poetry, and how his dad inspires him.