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When Gene Roddenberry was putting Star Trek together, NBC execs had some advice: "Lose the Martian." We all know how that turned out: Mr. Spock (a Vulcan) ranks among the most fascinating characters in TV history.

Paul Cesewski is the Artist in Residence for San Francisco Recycling & Disposal Inc. If that gallery sounds like a dump, it's because it's a dump. They've hosted a residency since 1990.

Superheroes come in all shapes and sizes. And now, some are battling a life-threatening virus: AIDS. Illustrator Robert Walker created the comic book superheroes called, O+ Men. He talks about his imaginative attempt to raise AIDS awareness through comic books.

In Michael Haneke's new film, a wealthy American family opens the door of their secluded vacation home to two strangers — who proceed to torture them in a series of sadistic games. David Edelstein has a review.

His brain magnetized (don't ask), a junkyard worker inadvertently destroys all the VHS tapes in his friend Mike's rental store — and to restock the joint, resorts to producing amateur remakes.

Kicked out of prep school, over-shrunk rich kid offers counseling — and prescription antidepressants — to his new public-school peers in a makeshift office in the boys' bathroom. An improbably charming comedy.

Director Brett Morgen joins Fresh Air's Terry Gross to discuss his new film, Chicago 10. The film mixes trial footage and animation to tell the story of the "Chicago 8" — protesters held accountable for violence that erupted with police outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968.

With the end of the writer's strike, live programming returned to network television this weekend in a big way. TV critic David Bianculli reviews last night's 80th Annual Academy Awards telecast, as well as the weekend's new episode of Saturday Night Live, starring Tina Fey.

Kara Walker is a controversial artist known best for her large black-and-white silhouettes that deal with issues of racism, slavery, sex and liberation. She's received plenty of flack for it. Farai Chideya visits the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles to talk with Walker about her exhibition.

A seemingly perfect bank heist goes wrong when thieves in London are overheard on ham radio. Based (loosely) on a real-life 1971 robbery, the film's an amusingly detailed, pleasantly plausible fiction.