He swaggered, an outsize personality who filled a room figuratively decades before he did it literally.

When the apocalypse comes, China will save the world.

Uplifting. Heartwarming. Schmaltzy but effective. Watching "The Blind Side," I felt my emotions being stage-managed, but once or twice I got something in my eye. It's inspired by a feel-good true story of interracial adoption and gridiron glory. The project could have been designed by scientists synthesizing the crowd-pleasing-movie genome. Bullock + football + Kumbaya = Ka-ching!

In a sense, the soldiers at the center of "The Messenger" are engaged in house-to-house combat. Capt. Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) and Sgt. Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) are unwelcome visitors, wary of what might detonate behind the next door.

Even by the sadistic standards of Lars von Trier ("Breaking the Waves," "Dogville"), "Antichrist" is a unique form of cruel and unusual punishment: an unrelenting orgy of graphic sex, violence and cynicism that also manages to be wildly pretentious.

"The Twilight Saga: New Moon," also known as "Twilight: The Squeakquel," is actually pretty good - a tick better than the first "Twilight," which wasn't bad either. These are hardly superlatives on the order of "shattering" and "beautiful," but compared to the film versions of "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons," the only two movies ever made with less sex than the first two "Twilights," they're matchless.

James Caan is seeking a divorce from his wife of 14 years.

The wife and two children of Roman Polanski are bearing the brunt of the director's imprisonment in Switzerland as he awaits a decision on his extradition, his lawyer said in an interview to be published Friday.

The end, when it comes, may look a lot like this - grey skies shrouding the ash-covered ruins of civilization.

Sex. Drugs. Prostitution. Pedophilia. Rape. Pedro Almodovar has been able to translate some of the most delicate subjects to the big screen with grace and humor.

As moviegoers across the nation watched the end of the world with the opening of "2012" last week, news of Earth's demise spread quickly across the Web. Scientists, fed up with the misleading prophecies, quickly set the record straight with their own series of articles and a YouTube video.

Wearing a floor-length pastel striped evening gown, Sandra Bullock walked the red carpet in New Orleans Thursday for a special premiere of her latest film, "The Blind Side."

There are loads of references to other sci-fi movies in "Planet 51": "E.T.," "The Day the Earth Stood Still," "Star Wars," even to a cute little mutt with a head shaped like the monster from "Alien" that squirts acid urine. The movie, about a far-flung planet of green aliens whose civilization resembles 1950s malt-shop and doo-wop America, is also crammed with subtexts about the era's paranoias, from UFO invaders to McCarthyism.

Apparently few things are as entertaining as watching the Earth shake itself to pieces.

"(Untitled)" is a funny movie set in New York City's fashionable art galleries and experimental music scene. Its characters are erudite and foolish, not always likable, but fun to observe.

Don't get on their bad side. This powerful coven enforces the laws of the vampire world.

The title of Adam Goldberg's new movie is intriguing: "(Untitled)" really doesn't have one.

"The Blind Side" flirts with terminal cuteness but wins us over, thanks to a lump-in-the-throat real-life story of selflessness and triumph.

The "Twilight" soap opera continues with a lighter, goofier and far less erotically charged sequel, "New Moon," a movie directed by a man and not a woman.

Tom Cruise has arrived in the Austrian city of Salzburg to shoot scenes for the new action comedy "Knight & Day."

"Planet 51" takes off like a rocket with its glitzy and alien look, but it never achieves orbit because of a sputtering plot and lackluster performances.

A marginal improvement on last year's "Twilight," "New Moon" is a bit like being locked in a room for two hours with a very moody teenager.

LOS ANGELES - Despite her lofty Hollywood status, Sandra Bullock's ready to take a break from acting.

Nicolas Cage received his marching orders for "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" several years ago in a phone call from the filmmaker, Werner Herzog.

The publicity for a Hollywood movie is a machine to behold, especially from the inside.