Screen Gems | Coming this week on TV and at the movies
Posted on Sun, Apr. 06, 2008
BIG SCREEN
Flawless (PG-13) -- Demi Moore is a diamond company executive in 1960s London trying to no avail to make her way in a male-dominated corporate world. Then a janitor (Michael Caine) offers her a chance to pay back her sexist bosses by helping him steal the stones stashed in the company's vaults.
Prom Night (PG-13) -- As if finding the right dresses, renting the right limo and learning how to properly pin a corsage weren't bad enough, the kids in this PG-13 remake of 1980's Jamie Lee Curtis slasher staple have to deal with a lunatic in their midst. Adolescence sucks!
Smart People (PG-13) -- A genius professor (Dennis Quaid) discovers his high I.Q. is no help in dealing with his temperamental daughter (Ellen Page), his ne'er-do-well brother (Thomas Haden Church) or a former student (Sarah Jessica Parker) who is now old enough to act on the crush she had on her old teacher.
Street Kings (R) -- Director David Ayer (Harsh Times) returns to the mean, bad streets of L.A. with this thriller about a veteran detective (Keanu Reeves) who teams up with a rookie (Chris Evans) to track down the men who murdered his former partner (Terry Crews). Forest Whitaker co-stars as their captain.
-- RENE RODRIGUEZ
SMALL SCREENAmerica's Port (10 p.m. Sunday, National Geographic Channel) -- This eight-part documentary examines life at the Port of Los Angeles, which (with the neighboring port in Long Beach) handles half the goods imported into America. That makes it an inviting target for terrorists. But even an ordinary day at the port is fraught with tension as ships laden with 30-ton containers stacked 10 stories high whisk in and out of the port's narrow channels. Any accident or mechanical delay can ripple through the entire U.S. economy. Sunday's debut deftly juggles three narratives: an engine failure that puts two giant freighters on a collision course, a search for a missing boater, and the political controversy over a proposal to ban high polluters among the 17,000 trucks that enter the port each day.
What Females Want and Males Will Do (8 p.m. Sunday, WPBT-PBS Showtime) -- You think you have trouble in singles bars? How about the poor male jumping spider? If his attempts to impress an arachnid chick come up short, she eats him. This is not some dippy Mars-and-Venus claptrap but a two-part episode of the PBS documentary series Science, exploring sexual strategies of the non-human world. (No, smart guy, South Beach is not included.) Sunday's chapter deals with the female side of the equation, which turns out to be even less comprehensible to males than human women are. See full review on 5M.
-- GLENN GARVIN
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