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Writer Jenny Bicks has been busy ever since she began working on Sex and the City in the show's first season. For our series Scenes I Wish I'd Written, Bicks chose to discuss a scene from a Woody Allen classic, Annie Hall. Hear NPR's Susan Stamberg.

Slate contributor and writer Mark Jordan Legan presents a round-up of what film critics are saying about this weekend's new film premieres, including Blade: Trinity, Ocean's Twelve and the documentary Born into Brothels.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews A Very Long Engagement and House of Flying Daggers.

Writer Mark Jordan Legan brings listeners the first of two round-ups of the buzz on film releases for the holiday weekend. This edition of "Summary Judgment" looks at the films The Phantom of the Opera, Hotel Rwanda and Meet the Fockers.

Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan looks at what the critics are saying about this week's major movie premieres, including Closer, The House of Flying Daggers and I Am David.

Managers of San Francisco's famed Castro Theatre have fired long-time film programmer Anita Monga. Fans of Monga and the Castro plan street protests. Fawnee Evnochides reports.

James Cameron's new project combines two of his longstanding pursuits: deep-sea diving and alien life. The successful director says the fact that the animals in question live deep in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean doesn't make them any less foreign. Hear Cameron and NPR's Neal Conan.

For the first time, the 120-foot-long scroll manuscript for Jack Kerouac's On the Road has gone on display unrolled. The giant scroll can be seen from end to end at the University of Iowa Museum of Art -- though its ending is missing, reportedly chewed by a dog.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews the new Japanese film Nobody Knows.

Television critic David Bianculli reviews the final episode of NYPD Blue and previews Deadwood the HBO Western which begins a second season this weekend. Both shows were created by David Milch.