Actor/director Tony Jaa and co-director Panna Rittikrai didn't come up with much of story to go with what might be one of the best martial-arts fight scenes ever.

Most films about alien invasion aren't about humans taking over another planet, but the scattershot "Planet 51" is just that. It has its moments, but it lacks focus.

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.

Woody Harrelson vividly reminds us here that he's not just a drawling punch line, a handy hunk of comic relief or ace zombie killer. And Ben Foster of "3:10 to Yuma" is terrific.

It would be wonderful to say that director John Lee Hancock has fashioned an elegant bookend to his 2002 baseball movie, "The Rookie." No such luck.

Pixar's adventurous fable -- one of 2009's finest films -- leads the new release pack for the week of Nov. 10.

An overly slick heist film leads the pack of this week's new releases.

Cracked British farce and bilious New York navel-gazing lead the wave of new releases for the week of Oct. 27.

Mickey Rourke's Oscar-nominated performance can't lift this tired sports movie off the mat.

The DVD release of Beverly Hills Chihuahua gives us an excuse to reprise our masterful DFW Chihuahua video.

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

Opening Wednesday:

"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" has set a box-office record for midnight screenings.

"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.

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!

Jennifer Lopez plans to include fireworks and an on-stage costume change in her performance at the American Music Awards. "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert will incorporate leather and chains into his.

New York designer Irina Shabayeva's collection took the gold in "Project Runway," winning $100,000 toward her line, an agent and a trip to Paris.

Eminem's comeback year of 2009 was expected to include the release of two new albums.

A prosecutor says an Ohio police chief accused of breaking into the home of a woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick abused his authority and tried to "blame it all on being a joke."

Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom, an international opera star, has died, her husband Sverker Olow says.