"The Fourth Kind" is a fraud, but that wouldn't matter if it were scarier and better acted.

Director Jonathan Parker and co-writer Catherine DiNapoli have made a film of such shrewdness and sophistication that they're bound to be punished for it.

Could someone please pull Robert Zemeckis away from his computer?

In the powerful and powerfully upsetting documentary "Crude," filmmaker Joe Berlinger tracks the devastating effects that, allege the 30,000 Ecuadoran plaintiffs in a class-action suit, have befallen them because of the environmental negligence of Chevron.

To say that truth can be stranger than fiction may be a cliché, but there are times when it is startlingly accurate.

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.

Also: Zack and Miri Make a Porno, plus Yentl and The Partridge Family. How's that for a winning combination?

Fresh off a Golden Globe win, Woody Allen's European love quadrangle will be a popular pick at the video store.

As Ebenezer Scrooge (not to mention The Grinch), Jim Carrey aims to put a lump of coal in the Christmas stocking and a lump of emotion in the throat. That he fails is not for lack of effort.

'The Box' is a mess, but it's a curiously haunting, intriguing, brain-tickling mess.

First it was books. Now it's DVDs.

Nick Counter, a longtime negotiator for Hollywood producers who led the studios through two grueling writers' strikes last year and in 1988, has died. He was 69.

You cannot ruin the essence of "A Christmas Carol." The example of a man who learns that wealth is not happiness, but happiness is wealth, is surely eternal.

Rocker Peter Wolf says he's looking forward to trying some home-brewed beer and good wine when he arrives in Maine for a gig with the Portland Symphony Orchestra.

Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with shoulders - and tattoos - exposed. Male models wore long, Islamic robes as well as shorts and sequined T-shirts.

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

"Woodrow Wilson" (Knopf, 704 pages, $35), By John Milton Cooper Jr.: Soon after he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson told a former colleague at Princeton University that all of his preparation for office was in the domestic sphere and it would be "an irony of fate" if his administration were to be consumed by concerns over foreign policy.

First it was books. Now it's DVDs.