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A disenchanted priest takes a sabbatical, embarking on canoeing trip with an ex-heavy metal guitarist once engaged to his sister. They're joined by two young Asian women who call themselves Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. And then things gets weird.

This fiscal thriller, starring Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto and Demi Moore, is set during one day in 2008, as a group of brokers try to prevent their firm from going belly up. David Edelstein says that given the headlines, the film's timing couldn't be better. (Recommended)

In a carefully-managed interview with a French magazine, Peng also said she was retiring from tennis and said her private life should not be brought up in politics or sport.

Aki Kaurismaki's quiet comedy follows an aging Frenchman's fight to keep a refugee boy from being deported. (Recommended)

The winner of round seven of the Three-Minute Fiction contest will be announced in a few weeks. Weekends on All Things Considered guest host Rebecca Roberts introduces Darius Kroger by William Sirson from Laramie, Wyoming. More stories from the contest can be found at npr.org/threeminutefiction.

This docudrama recounts a Nottingham social worker's shocking discovery — that tens of thousands of British children were deported to Australia over the years without their parents' consent — and her crusade to expose the scandal.

The "Saturday Night Live" star who perfected his impersonation of "President George W. Bush" and later took his presidential act to Broadway received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor — nation's top humor prize — Sunday night in Washington.

Could Shakespeare have been in love if he didn't even exist? Director Roland Emmerich's Elizabethan-era costume drama turns a cockamamie idea about the Bard's "real" identity into a ridiculous but handsome thriller.

We received 3,400 original stories in this round of Three-Minute Fiction. Until the winner is announced next month, we'll be reading a few of the stories that catch our eyes. Weekends on All Things Considered guest host Robert Smith introduces the stories "The Weatherby" by Nicholas Googins of Waltham, Massachusetts, and "Turnover" by Margaret Friedman of Seattle, Washington.

A prequel to John Carpenter's cult horror classic goes back to Antarctica to dig into mysteries the 1982 film was content to leave unresolved. Critic Ian Buckwalter says the earlier film might have had the right idea.