BIG SCREEN

I Love You, Beth Cooper (PG-13) -- Chris (Home Alone) Columbus returns to the director's chair for the first time since 2005's Rent for this John Hughes-ian comedy about a gigantic nerd (Paul Rust) who declares his love for the school hottie (Hayden Panettiere) during his graduation speech.

Brüno (R) -- The big question hanging over Sacha Baron Cohen's quasi-sequel to Borat -- this one following the gay Austrian supermodel and his partner on a visit to the United States, pushing the homophobic buttons of everyone they meet -- is not whether it'll be funny (you know it will), but whether it'll be too offensive for the mainstream.

Moon (R) -- After a three-year stint on an energy plant located on the far side of the moon, a man (Sam Rockwell) prepares to return to Earth and reconnect with his wife and daughter. But days before his departure, he begins having strange visions -- and then things get really weird. Director Duncan Cooper (son of David Bowie) plays head games with his characters and the audience in this psychological thriller that returns the sci-fi genre to the realm of ideas, not laser guns.

-- RENE RODRIGUEZ

Warehouse 13 (9 p.m. Tuesday, Sci Fi Channel) -- Imagine Scully and Mulder played for laughs and you get the flavor of this charming show about a couple of Secret Service agents who, when their careers crash, find themselves marooned and investigating space-alien artifacts and other weirdness at a remote black-ops base. Eddie McClintock (Felicity) and Joanne Kelly (Vanished) strike sparks as the two agents getting onto one another's nerves and, maybe eventually, into one another's pants.

Angel and the Badman (9 p.m. Sunday, Hallmark Channel) -- This remake of a 1947 movie that starred John Wayne as gunfighter tamed by Gail Russell has Lou Diamond Phillips and Deborah Kara Unger reprising the roles, plus an extra: Wayne's grandson Brendan as one of the gang.

The Conscience of Nhem En (8 p.m. Wednesday, HBO2) -- Thirty years ago, when Cambodia's communist Khmer Rouge regime was slaughtering its subjects by the hundreds of thousands, teenage soldier Nhem En was assigned to photograph victims as they went through a processing center to their deaths. Was he a morally indifferent opportunist, or a secret witness to ensure the story was told? You decide.

The Ascent of Money (10 p.m. Wednesday, WPBT-PBS 2) -- A two-hour condensed version of this excellent eight-hour BBC documentary series aired in January. Now see the whole dazzling thing unfold in four episodes, which trace the origins of the world's financial system -- and argue that the collapse of the past two years was easily foreseeable if government officials had paid any attention to economic history.

-- GLENN GARVIN

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