Sad Mao, Happy Mao. – Arts & Entertainment

Nicki dishes up a review of Zhang Yimou's new (and now highly controversial) film staring Christian Bale.

Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and recently imprisoned dissident, said Wednesday that he had agreed to become a visiting lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2012, but that he did not know whether China's government would allow him to leave the country to work there.

The propaganda film "Beginning of the Great Revival" naturally is a prime advertising opportunity: It's a star-studded film that's overtaken movie screens in China, a coveted market with 1.3 billion people.

I recently watched the Fan Lixin documentary Last Train Home, which captures the life of two migrant workers and their relationship with their two children they only see once a year after a long journey home. This is what I thought about it.