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A summer movie season is hardly complete without a popcorn epic by Michael Bay (Pearl Harbor, Armageddon.) Bay's latest, The Island, has a scifi premise rooted in fear of genetic engineering.

Michele Norris talks with actor John Leguizamo, who stars in Cronicas. Leguizamo plays a Miami-based journalist working in rural Ecuador. Although the film is in Spanish, he switches throughout the film between English and Spanish.

Film critic Kenneth Turan reviews My Summer of Love, a teen film from director Pawel Pawlikowski. Turan says the film is not your usual Hollywood teen fare. Fore one thing, it was named best British film of 2004.

NPR's Bob Mondello reviews the new British crime thriller, "Layer Cake." The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn. It stars Daniel Craig and Michael Gambon. The tricky noir plot is about a drug dealer planning to retire after one last errand for his boss.

We catch up on the story of comedian Dave Chappelle's disappearance. Michele Norris talks with Christopher John Farley, a senior editor at Time Magazine. Farley published an exclusive interview with Chappelle in this week's Time - just a week after many news outlets reported that Chappelle walked off the set of his Comedy Central show.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday gave Rivian a shoutout as his administration spends the week talking up federal investments in electric vehicles.

News & Notes profiles a tap dance prodigy with a unique approach combining dance with music, a classical flute player and an athlete who's also a student leader.

Last Night is James Salter's second story collection, 15 years after he published Dusk. Salter give us an America rich and lustrous and poor enough in spirit to break your heart three times over.

Hotel is the new CD by the electronic musician Moby. Moby's 1999 CD Play mixed old blues and gospel music with modern electronica. Music critic Mikel Jollett feels a bit nostalgic for the old days of the 90's after hearing the new Moby CD. He says it doesn't have the spark of his older work.

The FBI has cited information compiled by online sleuths in many of the more than 730 riot-related cases filed in federal court so far.