BIG SCREEN

9 (PG-13) -- This collaboration between co-producers Tim Burton and Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Nightwatch), which is not to be confused with the upcoming musical Nine), is a computer-animated fantasy about the last human survivors of the apocalypse who wage war against the machines trying to exterminate them. Not necessarily suitable for tykes.

OPENING FRIDAY

It Might Get Loud (PG) -- And you thought you were good at Guitar Hero. Davis Guggenheim directs this documentary about three of the all-time greatest artists of the electric guitar: Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, U2's The Edge and The White Stripes' Jack White.

The September Issue (PG-13) -- A film crew follows Vogue editor Anna Wintour as she prepares the magazine's biggest-ever fashion issue for the fall of 2007 and proves she's not the Devil after all. She just doesn't suffer fools. Or tacky clothes.

Sorority Row (R) -- The sisters of a sorority house (including Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes and Rumer Willis) begin to be picked off by the ghost of their past sins, who comes wielding lots of sharp implements. The movie is apparently so scary it is not being screened for critics. You know, to protect them.

Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself (PG-13) -- In the latest seriocomic adventures of the formerly mad black woman, Madea (Tyler Perry) entrusts three young delinquents to their aunt (Taraji P. Henson), who has enough problems and doesn't want to inherit more.

Whiteout (R) -- Underworld's Kate Beckinsale stars as a U.S. marshal investigating the first murder case in Antarctica, where they apparently don't have much use for a C.S.I. unit. What's more, she has to catch the killer before the sun sets, not to return for six months.

-- RENE RODRIGUEZ

SMALL SCREEN

Glee (9 p.m. Wednesday, Fox) -- After airing a single episode as a sneak preview last spring, this hilariously subversive high-school comedy takes its regular place in the Fox lineup. The freaks, geeks, feebs and plebes in a tiny glee club struggle to survive in a world of predatory jocks and cheerleaders.

Melrose Place (9 p.m. Tuesday, The CW) -- America's most deliriously promiscuous and manipulative apartment complex is back in this remake of Fox's signature 1990s prime-time soap. Pretty much the same show, only more so.

Sons of Anarchy (10 p.m. Tuesday, FX) -- As the second season of this brutally powerful chronicle of a mayhem-minded motorcycle club gets underway, the gang has come up with a second, even less legal, way to make money.

Your Life, Your Money (9 p.m. Wednesday, WPBT-PBS 2) -- Money-management advice for young adults from experts including hip-hop zillionaire Russell Simmons. (``First, sign the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, and Public Enemy. . . .'')

The Vampire Diaries (8 p.m. Thursday, The CW) -- An alienated teenage girl is strangely attracted to the quiet new kid at school, no matter that he has fangs . . . and no, it's not Twilight, but it's also not bad.

-- GLENN GARVIN

Let Miami Herald TV critic Glenn Garvin program your TiVo! Just click on his best bets for the week at www.tivo.com/guruguide.

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