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Film critic Bob Mondello reviews director Peter Jackson's version of the classic 1933 movie, King Kong. This full-color, digitally generated Kong nearly doubles the length of the original -- and Mondello says it's worth nearly every minute.

Dada was an absurd, outrageous, puzzling international art movement inspired by World War I. It used art to comment on the modern world its hypocrisies that wiped out a generation.

Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan reviews what movie critics are saying about this week's new film releases: Hostel, Casanova and Bloodrayne.

Slate contributor Seth Stevenson reviews the new -- and very unusual -- public service announcement from the American Red Cross promoting blood donation.

A full-size Italian Baroque organ -- a 17th-century marvel with 600 pipes and more than 2,000 parts -- is on display at the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery. It's the only organ of its kind in the Americas.

A new Showtime cable miniseries tells the story of Muslim terrorists in America. The controversial thriller Sleeper Cell premieres Sunday night.

The story of Chester Gillette and the murder of Grace Brown in a remote lake in the Adirondack Mountains is the centerpiece of Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy. This was the O.J. Simpson trial of its day. An opera version of the story premieres in New York Friday.

Stephen Colbert is the former senior correspondent on Comedy Central's The Daily Show. True to the industry he parodies, Colbert has landed the anchor's chair on a fake news show of his own.

Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan offers a roundup of what movie critics are saying about the weekend's new film releases: the Jennifer Aniston flick Derailed, Zathura and the Fifty Cent rap biopic Get Rich or Die Tryin'.

A power struggle over oil in the Middle East is the backdrop for the new film Syriana, starring George Clooney and Matt Damon. Critic Kenneth Turan says the movie is one of "paradoxes, contradictions and complications... it takes numerous risks, and thrives on them all."