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Fresh Air's film critic reviews Paul Haggis' In the Valley of Elah, which stars Tommy Lee Jones as a former military MP — and the father of a young soldier who's gone AWOL after returning from active duty in Iraq.

Fresh Air's critic-at-large ponders the 40th-anniversary edition DVD of the The Graduate.

Comedian Demetri Martin is probably best known for his appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He's also written for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, for which he garnered an Emmy nomination. He's released a DVD called Person — a version of his one-hour Comedy Central special, which aired earlier this year.

Following up on their platinum debut album, Into the Rush, the sister act Aly & AJ serves up Insomniatic, an album heavy on the teen-relationship tunes. Fresh Air's rock critic reviews the latest from the sisters Michalka.

When Ken Burns set his sights on World War II, he found a far different conflict than the "good war" we've come to know. His new PBS documentary, The War, tells the stories of young soldiers who are now dying off by the thousands.

Viggo Mortensen stars in Eastern Promises, a new David Cronenberg thriller set in London, in the dangerous underworld of sex trafficking. Cronenberg and Mortensen's last collaboration was the acclaimed 2005 film A History of Violence.

A new TV drama starting next month follows a Florida sugar-cane dynasty of Cuban-Americans. The cast of Cane went through extensive coaching to make sure their accents sounded Cuban, not Puerto Rican or Colombian — because audiences increasingly know the difference.

The legendary Carlyle Café, which has played host to Elaine Stritch, Judy Collins and even Woody Allen, will have its grand reopening Sept. 18. Its first engagement will be with the equally legendary Eartha Kitt. Kitt talks about performing at the Manhattan lounge.

North Carolina Democrats have won a battle over the fairness of the state's congressional and state legislative maps. The state Supreme Court threw out maps that give the GOP the advantage.

As the Writers Guild of America returns to work, we listen in on the first night of members' work appearing on talk shows, including excerpts from the monologues from The Colbert Report, The Tonight Show, Late Night With Conan O'Brien and The Daily Show.