BIG SCREEN

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (PG-13) -- How do you follow up a slew of Oscar nominations? If you're writer-director Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), you stick to your fantastical roots and make another installment in the adventures of the red-skinned comic-book hero Hellboy (Ron Perlman) to defend our planet from an invasion of otherwordly baddies.

Meet Dave (PG-13) -- The buzz is so bad on Eddie Murphy's comedy -- about a tiny, tiny man who walks around in a giant spaceship built to look exactly like him -- that the actor has been talking about giving up movies altogether.

Journey to the Center of the Earth (PG) -- Updated take on the Jules Verne novel, starring Brendan Fraser as the brother of a man who believed Verne's book was based on fact. See it in 3D or don't see it at all.

-- RENE RODRIGUEZ

Flashpoint (10 p.m. Friday, CBS) -- I know the phrase ''Canadian cop drama'' sounds like an oxymoron, but here are three reasons to give this new drama a shot: 1) ''On King! On, you huskies!'' Man, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon was the cutting edge cop show of 1955. 2) Amy Jo Johnson, who plays one of the cops, was also one of the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Not just any old one, either -- the pink one!!! 3) Get real. It's July.

The Replacements (5 p.m. Monday, Disney) -- Watch carefully, kids, because this is a life lesson. You're a big-shot Hollywood sex symbol (let's give you the pretend name Josh Duhamel), and you have a raffishly funny show (let's give it the pretend name Las Vegas) on the hottest network (let's give it the pretend name NBC), and you get to rub tummies with smokin' actresses like Molly Sims and Nikki Cox (let's not give them pretend names because some things are sacred). And then the network turns to poo-poo and the suits tinker with the chemistry of your cast, and all the sudden your show is canceled, you're out of money and you're playing an animated version of yourself on a network run by a giant rodent. (Well, OK, they're all run by rodents, but you know what I mean.) After this, we'll pretend you're living under a freeway overpass living on pretend government cheese.

The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez (11 p.m. Tuesday, WPBT-PBS 2) -- A chilling tale of collateral damage in the American government's war on drugs. Narrated by Tommy Lee Jones, this documentary (airing as part of the series P.O.V.) recounts the story of an 18-year-old Texas goat herder killed by U.S. Marines patrolling the border with Mexico. Explains one military official: ``We detect someone coming across the border. We can't tell if it's an immigrant or a drug smuggler or a terrorist, and it doesn't really matter.''

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