BIG SCREEN

2012 (PG-13) -- Disaster magnet Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) returns to destroy our planet -- again. John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton and Amanda Peet are among the humans trying to make sense of the impending apocalypse. Remember when Irwin Allen made those star-studded disaster flicks in the 1970s? Those were awesome. Emmerich's, not so much. But they sure look awesome.

Pirate Radio (R) -- In the 1960s, while the BBC limited itself to two hours of rock 'n' roll a week, pirate radio stations sated Britain's hunger for guitar-driven music. Writer-director Richard Curtis (Love Actually) imagines the fictional antics of one such station, with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy and Rhys Ifans as three of the colorful DJs broadcasting from a boat at sea.

Untitled (R) -- Have you ever found yourself in a museum or gallery, standing before a supposed work of art and thinking ``What the hell is that?'' Director Jonathan Parker takes the concept of ``art is in the eye of the beholder'' to comical extremes with this satire about a performance-art musician (Adam Goldberg) who can't get anyone but his parents to show up at his concerts, until he meets a Soho gallery owner (Marley Shelton) who sees talent where no one else does.

-- RENE RODRIGUEZ

SMALL SCREEN

How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin (9 p.m. Monday, WPBT-PBS 2) -- Forget NATO and nuclear deterrents and all that stuff: This documentary says it was really the Beatles that won the Cold War. Plus, how are you going to pass up a chance to hear a Russian Beatles cover band perform its hit Khrushchev Era Rock?

Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema (10 p.m. Tuesday, Starz) -- Any documentary that somehow manages to find common ground in North by Northwest and American Pie has got to be worth watching. A study of America's sexual liberation (or, depending on how you see it, debauchment) through what we watched on the big screen.

Secrets of the Dead (8 p.m. Wednesday, WPBT-PBS 2) -- In 1944, an American bomber crippled by Japanese anti-aircraft fire crashed in the jungles of Borneo. Hooray! The crew is rescued by jungle tribesmen. But what are you guys doing with those cooking pots? Uh-oh -- I just noticed that the title of this episode of the PBS documentary series is The Airmen and the Headhunters. . . .

-- 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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