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Slate ad critic Seth Stevenson gives his assessment of a new ad campaign by Internet service provider NetZero that mocks recent ads from America Online.

Director Wes Anderson is known for offbeat, relatively low-budget films such as Bottle Rocket and Rushmore. His latest, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou starring Bill Murray, is a bigger film in the same vein. Reviewer Bob Mondello says the film may leave viewers feeling lost at sea, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Productions Peter Pan have reflected changing social attitudes toward children over the years. The result is that until recently, Peter, the boy who wouldn't grow up, was played by a woman. NPR's Pat Dowell explores the history of the character.

John Waters' films have been described as raunchy, perverse and hilarious. So it comes as no surprise that he would pick a scene from a 1959 William Castle horror movie as one of his own favorites. Waters talks with NPR's Susan Stamberg.

Playwright Eve Ensler became an international phenomenon with her one-woman show, The Vagina Monologues. Now she's back with a new play about the rest of the female anatomy. It's called The Good Body, and it follows Ensler's own attempts to make peace with her aging figure.

Director Christopher Browne talks about his first film, A League of Ordinary Gentlemen -- a new documentary about the men who are leading a revival of the sport of professional bowling in the United States.

NPR's Bob Mondello reviews the performances of two actors who are expected to garner Oscar nominations for their performances: Kevin Bacon and Sean Penn. Both actors give harrowing psychological portraits of outsiders — Bacon plays a former child molester in The Woodsman and Penn plays a down-and-out salesman in The Assassination of Richard Nixon.

NPR's Alex Chadwick interviews Sean Fine, the producer and cinematographer of True Dads, a documentary that looks at six different fathers and how they've overcome adversity to raise their families. Fine also talks about how the process of making the film affected relationships in his own family.

A new exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library offers a glimpse at correspondences four centuries old. "Letter Writing in Renaissance England" includes letters penned in invisible ink, sealed in wax and silk, and sent to and from some of the most famous figures in history.

The latest film from director Jean-Pierre Jeunet takes place in France at the end of World War I. A Very Long Engagement is the story of a young woman's search for a fiancee she doesn't believe is dead. Audrey Tatou, who played the lead in Jeunet's 2001 comedy hit Amelie, stars again. NPR's Bob Mondello has a review.