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Fresh Air film critic David Edelstein reviews the clunky but stirring melodrama Rendition, about an Egypt-born U.S. resident who gets detained by the CIA and shipped off to be tortured in an unnamed North African country. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Omar Metwally and Meryl Streep.

We Own the Night is a crime drama starring Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg. They play two brothers — one a cop, the other a nightclub owner — who find themselves on opposite sides of the law.

The elite engineering school is suing one of America's biggest architects over work he did on the university's Stata Center. Frank Gehry's project initially won praise for its daring and whimsy, but today school officials say the complex is plagued by mold and cracked walls.

Farai Chideya visits the Hollywood set of Everybody Hates Chris, the award-winning sitcom based on the childhood of comedian Chris Rock. She talks with the show's executive producer, Ali LeRoi, and actor Terry Cruise, who plays Chris's father.

NPR's Scott Simon visits Academy Award winning producer Irwin Winkler to talk shop — what does a producer do anyway? Winkler learned his lessons at the old William Morris agency.

A new documentary about the conflict in Sudan follows six people working to bring humanitarian relief to the region. Adam Sterling is one of those featured in Darfur Now. Sterling's passion for the cause led him to form The Sudan Divestment Task Force.

The latest experiment in the eclectic career of filmmaker Todd Haynes: I'm Not There, a kind of fantasia on the various public personas of Bob Dylan. Six different actors — including Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Cate Blanchett — play the famously protean singer.

Three big auction houses — Christie's, Sotheby's and Philips de Pury — are selling works whose value they estimate at more than $900 million. Lindsay Pollock, a journalist specializing in the art market, considers whether the contemporary art bubble could burst.

Photographer Allan Tannenbaum was given rare access to John Lennon just 10 days before the artist was killed. He discusses his decision to wait 27 years to publish the intimate photos he shot of Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Editorial leaders among the nation's top magazines for women discuss stories gracing the pages of their latest issues. Damarys Ocana, of Latina Magazine, Amy Gross, of O, The Oprah Magazine, and Angela Burt-Murray of Essence Magazine, discuss heroes and heroines within communities of color, holiday gift concepts and what makes the holidays so special to them.