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Critic at large John Powers reviews the two-DVD edition of the 1939 classic film Young Mr. Lincoln, directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda.

The latest project from playwright David Mamet teams him up with Sean Ryan, who created the FX series The Shield. The pair's new show is The Unit, about a covert military unit.

Andy Garcia produced, directed and stars in The Lost City. He even wrote the music. The film is based on a screenplay by the late novelist Guillermo Cabrera-Infante. It's set in 1950s Havana on the brink of the Cuban revolution.

The Notorious Bettie Page is a movie based on the life of the pinup girl whose legendary poses transformed her into an icon. Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition film critic Kenneth Turan calls it an "empty film."

This year's Pritzker Prize for Architecture -- the Nobel of the profession -- goes to Paulo Mendes da Rocha. The 78-year-old architect creates "honest" buildings, according to the Pritzker jury. For the past six decades, he has built high-rises, stadiums, houses and a chapel -- all in concrete.

Natalie Portman stars in the new movie V for Vendetta. She says the project interested her because of its subversive and provocative ideas questioning such modern-day labels as "terrorist."

Michael Winterbottom's latest comedy is Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story. It's based on an experimental comic novel from the 18th century. The movie is as tricky as its source material.

Our television critic reviews the new drama series Brothers & Sisters, which airs on Sunday night in the ABC time slot previously occupied by Grey's Anatomy.

Borat features British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen as a fictional television journalist from Kazakhstan on a tour of the United States. The satire is biting and discomforting. But it's also funny and well-suited for our times.

Wild things usually lurk in Maurice Sendak's books, and his newest, Mummy?, is no exception. In Sendak's first pop-up book, a little boy encounters Frankenstein, the Mummy and other monsters as he searches for his mother. The acclaimed author and artist talks about why he creates worlds of danger for his young characters.