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Shane Meadows' film tracks a fatherless boy through a budding friendship with a skinhead — and into dangerous territory with a new breed of outsider — in the English Midlands just after the Falklands war.

German filmmaker Werner Herzog discusses his new film Rescue Dawn, a Hollywood adaptation of his 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly. Both the movie and the documentary are based on the true story of Dieter Dengler, the only U.S. pilot to successfully escape from a North Vietnamese-controlled prison.

ABC is preparing to launch a four-week anthology series called Masters of Science Fiction; it's scheduled to air on Saturdays at 10 p.m. Fresh Air's TV critic says it's a modern-day Outer Limits.

For kids, Summer means it's time to swim, play, and maybe go to camp. In this week's Faith Matters, Amanda Metskas with Camp Quest, an atheist and free thinkers summer camp for children, explains the mission of her group.

A lightweight coming-of-age dramedy about a bright, handsome 20-year-old still living with Mommie Dearest — whose reluctance to let him go is ruining his chances of losing his virginity. Brenda Blethyn plays a modern Medea, but the comic impulse ultimately wins out.

The Getty Museum will return 40 artifacts that the Italian government says were looted. The deal allows the Getty — the wealthiest U.S. arts institution, with an endowment of over $5 billion — to keep one key sculpture, a limestone-and-marble Aphrodite, until 2010.

Visitors to the annual San Diego comic book convention, Comicon, will quickly discover that it's serious business for comic book fans. Comics critic Calvin Reid is there and talks about the event and the presence of blacks and minorities in the comic book industry.

Back to hash out some of the hottest show biz new is Newsweek entertainment writer Allison Samuels. She weighs in on the canceled wedding of R&B singer Usher, tennis star Venus Williams' fashion sense and model Alek Wek's new book.

Nearly 500 protesters held a recent rally outside the Washington, D.C. home of Debra Lee, chairperson of cable network BET. The protesters expressed discontent with what they called the "derogatory images of black men and women" portrayed by the network. BET's most recent scrutiny stems from a controversial public service announcement (PSA). The creator of the ad, Bomani "D'Mite" Armah, responds to his critics.

In his new book, Diaries 1969 - 1979: The Python Years, actor and comedian Michael Palin documents the evolution of the Monty Python comedy group. Palin's collection of diary entries chronicles everything from the birth of The Pythons to the birth of his own children.