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Frustrated by the glass ceiling, an exec (Demi Moore) in the diamond trade decides to help a janitor with a jewel heist. Moore looks the part, and she and co-star Michael Caine are engaging enough, but a cleverer script would make for a better caper.

Dr. Jack Gramm, college professor and FBI forensic psychiatrist, receives a mysterious phone call telling he has only 88 minutes before he is murdered, presumably by the caller. Racing against the clock, Gramm must discover who's out for his head.

She's been acting for nearly 40 years; now she's taking a stab at directing, producing and writing. And she's doing all that — as well as acting — in one film: Then She Found Me. She tells NPR why.

This year's Pritzker Prize for Architecture has been awarded to Frenchman Jean Nouvel. Over the course of his career, Nouvel has designed more than 200 projects around the world, including the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and a 75-story tower next door to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The program's Magazine Mavens — Suzan Colon of O, The Oprah Magazine; Damarys Ocana of Latina and Lynya Floyd of Essence — discuss stories gracing the latest issues of their publications, including success tips for women and celebrity profiles.

An Eastern European immigrant struggles with family dramas after he moves to Australia with his wife and son. Richard Roxburgh's pretty but ponderous melodrama boasts fine performances, but its story proves so downbeat and attenuated that it's hard to stay engaged.

Animated heroine, beloved of preschoolers throughout the U.S., breaks the cartoon mold: She's Latina, bilingual, a tomboy — and she knows how to get problems solved. NPR's Rolando Arrieta explores how Nickelodeon's scrappy heroine came to be.

In this installment, we hear the story of an "angel" from Shangrila who wants to walk on the dark side.

The creator of the television series The Twilight Zone often battled with the networks over the content of his scripts. Noon on Doomsday inspired by Emmett Till's story, was considered too hot for TV in the 50's. It was peformed for the first time Saturday night.

Photojournalist Robin Bowman spent four years driving across the United States, photographing and interviewing more than 400 teens. Some of those pictures — and the teens' words — are included in her new book, It's Complicated: The American Teenager.