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It is time to hear what the critics have to say about this week's movie releases: The Wendell Baker Story, Shrek the Third and Even Money.

An unnecessary if jump-inducing sequel to Danny Boyle's neo-zombie frightfest 28 Days Later; new director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo keeps the first film's panicky, low-budget aesthetic intact.

Fresh Air went national in 1987, and we're celebrating that 20th anniversary by revisiting some classic interviews. In this segment: Jackie Mason. His comic roots are planted firmly in the Borscht Belt, but he's conquered everything from HBO to Broadway. Rebroadcast from Sept. 29, 1987.

An episodic loser-makes-good comedy from the brothers Wilson (Luke, Owen, and Andrew) that can't decide whether it wants to be a romance, a con-man flick, or a feisty-old-coots comedy. The parts are funnier than the whole.

French actress Catherine Deneuve has long been thought of as an icon of international cinema. She's starred in films as diverse as Luis Buñuel's sensual Belle de jour, the musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and the colonial epic Indochine; her latest film is Andre Techine's Les voleurs, or Thieves. This interview originally aired on Oct. 3, 1996.

Filmmaker and actor Christopher Guest, best known for This Is Spinal Tap and Waiting for Guffman, picks TV and film comedies as well as violent and serious titles as well among his favorite DVDs to watch.

At 141 minutes, this supe-opera is seriously overextended, with four distinct subplots and way too much hand-wringing over things like the heroine's singing career.

Two documentaries — one about big-budget Broadway musicals and one about a Brooklyn program aimed at high-school rappers — make it clear that art isn't easy.

Recently Brig. Gen. Patrick Finnegan asked producers of the Fox program 24 to stop showing torture as an effective tool in combating terrorism. His request may not have changed that show's writing, but some other shows seem to have heard it.

In 1962, Marvel Comics introduced the character of Spider-Man — a teenager bitten by a radioactive spider who becomes a vigilante crime fighter. It took only a few years for the superhero, created by Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, to become a sensation in comic books and in a TV cartoon series. In 2002, director Sam Raimi brought him to the screen with blockbuster results. Now comes Spider-Man 3 — which, at $300 million to $350 million dollars, is reportedly the most expensive movie ever made.