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Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan summarizes what film critics are saying about this weekend's major movie releases: Just My Luck, Poseidon and Keeping Up with the Steins.

The East Village Opera Company is a New York City musical group that mixes opera with rock. The group is made up of a five-piece band, a string quartet and two vocalists. Barrett Golding reports on how the group finds inspiration in music from another era.

Caroll Spinney has played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street for 37 years. At the Daytime Emmys tomorrow, Spinney will accept a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Perhaps only Hans Zimmer could compose a sweepingly atmospheric score befitting the much anticipated Da Vinci Code movie. The Academy Award-winner has composed some of Hollywood's best-known films including Gladiator and The Thin Red Line.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews United 93, the dramatized version of events on the plane that crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after being hijacked Sept. 11. Learning that other planes had been flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, passengers fought back for control of the plane.

Donald Bogle, a renowned expert on black cinema, recently teamed up with Turner Classic Movies to present a series on the evolution of African-Americans in film. Bogle talks about some of his movie choices.

American Film Institute Silver Theater and Cultural Center director Murray Horwitz — and listeners — vote on the best Rock 'n' Roll flicks.

The Namesake is Mira Nair's film about an Indian-American family struggling with issues of identity. Adapted from a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Jhumpa Lahiri, the film stars Kal Penn and Tabu.

The record label Stax is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a two-CD collection of 50 hits. The label brought us artists such as Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers and Otis Redding.

In the year 2000, a civilian employee of the U.S. military in Seoul, South Korea, ordered a Korean subordinate to dump a large amount of formaldehyde into a sewer pipe leading to the Han River. The incident aroused violent anti-American sentiment in Korea, and led to the birth of a monster — a monster movie, called The Host.