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Film critic David Edelstein reviews Be Kind, Rewind, starring Jack Black and Mos Def, and directed by Michel Gondry.

Andrea talks with our Cultural Concierge, Jesse Kornbluth. This week Kornbluth wants everyone to watch the 1938 Russian film Alexander Nevsky, which he says has one of the greatest soundtracks in film history.

Fresh Air's TV critic David Bianculli discusses the long-term effects of the four-month-long writers' strike, and--more immediately--when we can expect new episodes of our favorite shows to return to the air.

One of this year's Oscar nominees has a long history with the statuette: Julie Christie won an Academy Award more than four decades ago, and has been nominated twice since. Now she's up for a fourth award — for a film about a four-decade marriage.

Dramatist Martin McDonagh (The Pillowman) has been called a "stage Tarantino"; with In Bruges, his feature-film debut, he's left two Irish hit men at large in the picturesque Belgian city — and created some moments that are pretty picturesque themselves.

When you think of Martha's Vineyard, you might get an image of the Kennedy family hosting a clambake. But there has also been a significant black population living there since the colonial days. A new play called Stick Fly — airing on public radio stations — takes us into the family parlor to visit with a father, two sons, and the three women in their lives. Director Shirley Jo Finney and actors Carl Lumbly and Dule Hill join Farai Chideya.

In 1960, a team of documentary filmmakers descended on the Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary in order to record the campaigning between John F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey. Politically, the results propelled Kennedy to the nomination. Artistically, the documentarians invented a new form.

In late-'40s New York, an adulterous husband plans to kill his wife while his best friend plots to steal his mistress. There's duplicity enough for a Restoration comedy — and conflicting dramatic impulses enough to make the film a mishmash.

Poor, picked-on Dicky Chow finds a green blob which becomes an alien puppy in this Hong Kong kid flick. The slapstick is excessive, the script (from writer-director Stephen Chow) treacly and contrived.

Since the Writers Guild strike, Saturday Night Live has earned some of its highest ratings in two years. Introducing 27-year-old Casey Wilson, the newest member of the cast and one of the resurgent show's prime-time players.