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Writer Mark Jordan Legan summarizes what movie critics are saying about this weekend's big film releases, including The Pacifier, The Jacket, and Be Cool.

Slate contributor and writer Mark Jordan Legan takes a look at what movie critics are saying about this week's major cinema releases, including Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda, Ice Princess and The Ring 2.

Wagner hangs out with the rich and famous, and then writes satirical novels based on Los Angeles life. His new book is The Chrysanthemum Palace. The three main characters are actors who are the children of wealthy, successful parents. Wagner is known for his dark wit and nasty portrayals of show business elite.

Critic Edelstein looks at The Best of Youth, a six-hour drama first shown on Italian television.

Milch co-created NYPD Blue, for which he won two Emmys. He is the creator, executive producer and head writer of the current HBO series Deadwood, a Western drama set in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Milch left a teaching job at Yale University to go to Hollywood and work on the show Hill Street Blues. This interview was originally broadcast on March 25, 2004.

The Shield begins its fourth season tomorrow. The FX TV cop show, one of the most popular dramas on cable, is the story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules. NPR's Ed Gordon is joined by Emmy-nominated actress CCH Pounder, who plays Detective Claudette Wyms in the series.

After a 12-season run, the last episode of ABC's dramatic series NYPD Blue airs Tuesday. Slate contributor Bryan Curtis says that the show broke ground in terms of sexual content on network TV, but eventually lost out to cable shows that could be even more explicit.

Writer Mark Jordan Legan looks at what critics have to say about the weekend's crop of new movies. This edition of Slate's "Summary Judgment" covers the films House of D, Palindromes and The Amityville Horror.

Day to Day television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews the new ABC show Jake in Progress starring John Stamos. Wallenstein takes on those who think the program is the male answer to the ribald HBO hit show Sex and the City.

Gene Wilder made his film debut as a kidnap victim in the 1967 Bonnie and Clyde. He is known for his work with Mel Brooks, in addition to the classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Wilder has written a new memoir, Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art.