How might a kid — OK, a teenager — protect himself from that dreaded fate described in legions of sci-fi movies (including "The Fourth Kind"), the anal probe? If you weren't thinking "champagne cork," you were way off

The redemption-minded sports flick "The Blind Side" serves its inspiration straight up with no twist.

Nothing like a dandy evening's apocalypse to take the edge off recession, unemployment, Afghanistan and Glenn Beck.

Richard Curtis makes romantic, sentimental and overlong comedies filled to the rafters with friends as cast members. He's a British Judd Apatow — indulgent, substituting sweetness for edge, charm for shock value.

"Wacky" isn't George Clooney's strong suit as an actor. But it's always at least amusing to watch the suave, silky leading man let his freak flag fly.

How much of "Michael Jackson's This Is It" can we believe?

"Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant" is sort of a "Twilight"-lite. It's about vampires and it's about teenagers.

"No borders, just horizons," says aviator Amelia Earhart in the new biopic "Amelia."

Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" is a literary diamond: simple in design, brilliant in presentation.

"Law Abiding Citizen" is a glib, brutal and preposterous revenge fantasy, a take-the-law-in-your-own-hands rabble rouser that taps into a lot of fears and genuine gripes about the American legal system.

"Couples Retreat" was made because of its sunny, sandy location, scenic Bora Bora. Judging from the light, cast members slept late and took it pretty easy, even in the "We rise at dawn" scenes.

When it comes to genre filmmaking, “Zombieland,” a grisly comedy about yet another attack of the ravenous undead, does just about everything right.

Every horror movie is a comedy, if you think about it.

Drew Barrymore's directing debut, "Whip It," is a nostalgic follow-your-bliss coming-of-age comedy.

Brit-comic Ricky Gervais stakes a serious claim to the title "the British Albert Brooks" with "The Invention of Lying," his droll, witty and thoughtful comedy.