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Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition film critic Kenneth Turan says Spike Lee's Inside Man is a terrific heist movie with a plot that unfolds on a need-to-know basis. Denzel Washington plays a New York City policeman, Clive Owen a brilliant criminal and Jodie Foster a Manhattan power broker.

Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St. Albans dates back to the 8th century, with a storied past featuring medieval pigeons, Oliver Cromwell and tunnels once traversed by monks. Now its future is uncertain.

TV critic and Hollywood Reporter editor Andrew Wallenstein reviews new episodes of Comedy Central's wildly popular Chappelle's Show. The network is airing a few episodes with previously unseen material recorded before comedian Dave Chappelle abandoned the production after signing a multi-million-dollar contract for upcoming seasons.

The film Syriana depicts the inner workings of the global oil industry, weaving together stories of Arab royalty, CIA agents, ruthless businessmen and terrorists. Madeleine Brand speaks with Syriana writer and director Stephen Gaghan about his complicated expose, which opens in theaters across the nation on Friday.

Farai Chideya talks to the director of The Death of Kevin Carter, an Oscar-nominated documentary about the life, work and suicide of a Pulitzer-prize winning South African photojournalist haunted by an image of a starving child.

Farai Chideya talks with Kimberlee Acquaro about her Oscar-nominated short documentary God Sleeps in Rwanda. The film focuses on how Rwanda's young women are coping with the aftermath of genocide.

Frederich Nietzsche, the 19th century German philosopher, was in love with Turin. He raved about the city's gelato, its music and its quiet. Robert Rethy, head of the Philosophy Department at Cincinnati's Xavier University, tells Scott Simon about Nietzsche's Turin.

Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan offers a roundup of what movie critics are saying about this weekend's releases: Firewall, Curious George and The Pink Panther.

Television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews the new reality show The Real Housewives of Orange County which premieres on the cable network Bravo Tuesday night. Wallenstein says the show, featuring rich "ladies of leisure," has potential as a guilty pleasure.

A new show that has opened in South Korea, Yodok Story, takes on an unlikely topic for a musical: prison camps in Stalinist North Korea. The director and choreographer are North Korean -- and both were once prisoners in the vast gulag system that holds an estimated 200,000 people.