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Red Lights, the new film from French director Cedric Kahn, is a taut, atmospheric thriller about a husband and wife who think they're going on vacation but are actually about to descend into a chaotic abyss. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.

Alan Cheuse reviews Birds Without Wings, by Louis de Bernieres. Cheuse says it's a story with numerous richly portrayed characters living in an Anatolian coastal village in the early 1900s.

Slate contributor Ben Williams presents a roundup of what film critics are saying about this weekend's new releases, including Mean Creek, Without a Paddle and Exorcist: The Beginning.

Day to Day television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews Speedo, a PBS documentary about demolition derbies.

The film Mean Creek, starring Rory Culkin, dives into the messy reality of teen life, combining sensitivity and teen themes in a plot with echoes of Deliverance. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.

An American poetry therapist and a Haitian-American U.S. Army veteran founded a public high school four years ago for the growing Haitian community in the small city in Delray Beach, Fla. They named the school the Toussaint L'Ouverture School for the Arts and Social Justice, after the father of Haiti's independence movement. These students, most recently arrived from Haiti, learn in their native Creole language and in English. Hear a report from Youth Radio.

Camp Alpha, a U.S. military base in Iraq, was built directly on top of the ancient temple area of Babylon. The base's location was chosen to protect the archeological site from looters. Instead, the base has resulted in damage that some antiquities experts characterize as "horrifying." Hear NPR's Renee Montagne and archeologist John Russell.

NPR's Bob Mondello reviews the new film King Arthur. He says the movie falls short because not only does it fail to follow the Arthurian legend, but all the dialogue, action scenes and wardrobe just seem silly.

NPR's Susan Stamberg reflects on the career of actor Marlon Brando. The Oscar-winning star of The Godfather, A Streetcar Named Desire, Last Tango in Paris and many other films died Friday at age 80.

NPR's Andrea Seabrook talks with author Chuck Palahniuk about his new book Stranger than Fiction, his writing craft and the reactions he likes provoke in his readers. Palahniuk is most well-known for his novel Fight Club.