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Slate contributor and writer Mark Jordan Legan presents a round-up of what film critics are saying about this weekend's new film premieres, including Blade: Trinity, Ocean's Twelve and the documentary Born into Brothels.

NPR's Madeleine Brand speaks with Kenny Juarez, the 11-year-old writer whose radio play Sliced by an Artist is airing on Day to Day. Juarez wrote the play when he was 9 years old. Joining the conversation is Dustin Hoffman, who narrates the play.

Rock concert posters produced some of the most iconic art of the '60s. Then came a period of decline. But an explosion of indie bands producing their own CDs has revived the genre. Producer Scott Carrier of the Hearing Voices radio project offers a review of the book Art of Modern Rock.

Writer Mark Jordan Legan brings listeners the first of two round-ups of the buzz on film releases for the holiday weekend. This edition of "Summary Judgment" looks at the films The Phantom of the Opera, Hotel Rwanda and Meet the Fockers.

The executive director and CEO of the Screen Actors Guild, Robert Pisano, has been sued by some members of the union because Pisano is also on the board of directors of the DVD rental company Netflix. Some wonder how he can accurately represent actors who are trying to negotiate DVD residuals when Netflix is so cozy with the studios. Iris Mann reports (6:15)

Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan looks at what the critics are saying about this week's major movie premieres, including Closer, The House of Flying Daggers and I Am David.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe.

Managers of San Francisco's famed Castro Theatre have fired long-time film programmer Anita Monga. Fans of Monga and the Castro plan street protests. Fawnee Evnochides reports.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews A Very Long Engagement and House of Flying Daggers.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Pedro Almodovar about his film Bad Education. He says it was one of his hardest films to make, because the story is so close to his own experiences.