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Pakistani singer Faiz Ali Faiz pays homage to the late great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with his new CD, Your Love Makes Me Dance. The five pieces on the album were either composed or performed by Nusrat. The genre is called qawwali, a kind of Islamic religious music. Banning Eyre has a review.

TV critic David Bianculli reviews a new DVD box set of The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons. It's a compilation of interviews and performances on the late-night talk show by some of the leading musicians of the 1960s and '70s, including Mick Jagger, Janis Joplin and Stevie Wonder.

A French remake of an American movie is rare. Usually, it's the other way around. The new French film The Beat That My Heart Skipped is even more remarkable because it's not a remake of a hit.

The Egyptian government is charging millions of dollars for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to house the King Tut exhibit. The result is a $30 per-person admission ticket. Despite the hefty price, exhibit organizers say the tickets are selling well.

Film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Batman Begins. The film is about the origins of Bruce Wayne and his superhero counterpart the Caped Crusader.

Comedian and actor Bob Saget talks about the new documentary The Aristocrats. The film features Saget and 100 other comics discussing and retelling one famous dirty joke that has been handed down in comedy circles since the vaudeville days.

A kidnapping in Caracas provides the plotline for the Venezuelan thriller Secuestro Express. The film makes reference to the kidnap-for-ransom trade thriving in many parts of Latin America.

Christine Turner, the filmmaker behind the short documentary, Lynching Postcards: 'Token of A Great Day,' talks about her film and its present-day resonance.

Capote, the new film about Truman Capote, details the writer's life at the time around his breakthrough book, In Cold Blood. The film, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, tells the story of how Capote came to tell of the murder of a Holcomb, Kan., family.

Ken Tucker reviews new albums from Paul McCartney and The Rolling Stones.