BIG SCREEN
Speed Racer (PG) -- In their first film since The Matrix Revolutions, directors Larry and Andy Wachowski turn the TV cartoon staple into the first live-action anime film. Emile Hirsch is Speed, Christina Ricci is Trixie, John Goodman is Pops, and Matthew Fox is Racer X.
The Fall (Unrated) -- Tarsem Singh (The Cell) directs this visually striking fantasy about the tall tales a bedridden man tells a little girl during her stay at a hospital.
What Happens in Vegas (PG-13) -- The morning after a night of drunken partying in Vegas, two strangers (Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher) wake up to discover they're married and share a $3-million jackpot. So each tries to make the other file for divorce so they can keep the loot.
-- RENE RODRIGUEZ
SMALL SCREENGeorge H.W. Bush (9 p.m. Monday, WPBT-PBS 2) -- This two-part episode of the documentary series American Experience argues that the presidency of the first George Bush -- which ended in recession and a humiliating defeat by Bill Clinton -- has been seriously underrated, especially in foreign policy: Bush successfully steered a tricky course through the chaotic breakup of the Soviet Union, the reunification of Germany and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Some of the comments on the latter are particularly piquant. 'Some people said, `Why didn't you guys take care of Saddam when you had a chance? Why didn't you go to Baghdad?' '' notes Bush's advisor James Baker. ``Nobody asks me that question anymore.''
An American Crime (9 p.m. Saturday, Showtime) -- Now that Juno and Smart People have alerted the world to the fact that Ellen Page is the wittiest, smartest actress in Hollywood, everybody's scrambling to see her previous movies, which had the approximate popular reception of a warm family comedy about Osama bin Laden. This one, written and directed by indie auteur Tommy O'Haver, is based on a real-life 1965 crime in Indiana and stars Page as a teenager tortured and murdered by a family caretaker. Not exactly Juno territory, but then neither was Hard Candy, in which Page played a pubescent girl stalking a pedophile.
-- GLENN GARVIN
