Remember when advice books stayed on the shelves where they belonged? Me neither. The latest in what seems to be a trend to bring them to the screen, <span class="italic">What to Expect When You’re Expecting</span> used to be a popular guide for expectant mothers. Now, instead of explaining the month-by-month changes in fetal development and discussing the benefits of breastfeeding, it’s an excuse to throw together a bunch of attractive actors, tie their shallowly defined characters to a single concept — and, with any luck, watch the money roll in.

Two filmmakers tell the story of gay Florida mom who lost custody of her daughter to the girl’s convicted-killer dad.

The 14th annual Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival runs Friday through May 6 at venues throughout the county.

The walking dead in post-revolution Cuba are also the starving dead.

Beginning today, we will post a trivia question on Twitter @HarryPotterMH so you can test your wizardly skills and join the exclusive ranks of the Miami Order of Merlin First Class.

The Cannes film festival on Saturday wrapped up the movies in competition wading deep in the Mississippi river with "Mud," a heart-wrenching, Mark Twain-influenced tale of a teenage boy searching for the meaning of life in a harsh world and starring Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon.

To have one film competing at the Cannes Film Festival is a privilege. To have two, Matthew McConaughey says, is wonderful good fortune - and the reward for a spell of hard labor in the trenches of independent cinema.

A judge on Friday granted Jeff Goldblum a temporary restraining order against a woman who has been repeatedly ordered to stay away from the actor in recent years.

They protect Earth from the dastardly aliens who roam among us, but Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones can only manage mediocre reviews from critics in "Men in Black 3."

An Italian ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway has been released from a Pennsylvania federal prison following a real-estate scam.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan says she's is happy with herself and her weight - a rare combination in the world of celebrities.

Former adult film star Jenna Jameson has been arrested in Southern California for investigation of driving under the influence after she struck a light pole with her vehicle.

Keira Knightley, the glamorous star of "Pirates of the Caribbean," is engaged to marry musician James Righton, her publicist said Friday.

Going back to what he does best, David Cronenberg takes a visceral day-trip inside the cushioned limousine of a tycoon who cares little for the bloody, populist riots that explode outside his car in "Cosmopolis."

“Somewhere in the valley,” Peter (Christopher Denham) tells his girlfriend Lorna (Nicole Vicius), “there’s a woman living in a basement who says she’s from the future — and she’s amassing followers.” Peter, an aspiring filmmaker, has enlisted Lorna’s help in making a covert documentary about the growing cult. They have passed themselves off as members, and Peter has swallowed a tiny device that records the images he captures with the tiny camera hidden in his eyeglasses. Everything he sees, he films.

In order to make its target release date, <span class="italic">Men in Black 3</span> started shooting without a completed script. Now the movie is out, and I’m pretty sure the screenplay was never finished. Etan Cohen ( <span class="italic">Tropic Thunder</span>) is credited as the writer, although several other folks took passes at it. Cohen was just the guy who drew the short straw and wound up with his name in the credits. It’s a tough break, because the blame for this crass, empty movie doesn’t really rest with him.

The funny and beguiling <span class="italic">Bernie </span>recounts the curious case of Bernard Tiede (Jack Black), an assistant funeral director who became a pillar of the community in Carthage, Texas. Bernie, as everyone called him, took immense pride in his work, meticulously preparing and grooming corpses to ensure they looked their best to grieving relatives. Outside of the embalming room, Bernie sang at memorial services, comforted the bereaved long after their relatives had been buried, bought random gifts for people, organized fund raisers and helped anyone he possibly could.

When we first meet Alma (Helene Bergsholm), the 15-year-old heroine of <span class="italic">Turn Me On, Dammit!, </span>she’s masturbating on her kitchen floor with the help of a phone-sex operator. In an <span class="italic">American Pie </span>movie, the character would have been Jason Biggs in his bedroom, with the help of the Internet (or some baked goods). But because Alma is a girl, and she seems to be enjoying herself so much, the scene seems a bit … <span class="italic">outré</span>. The entire movie is like that — cheerfully scandalous and daring, without ever being truly explicit or graphic.

<span class="italic">Battleship</span> is a board game for children, so it stands to reason a film adaptation would also be aimed at kids. But did they have to gear it to really <span class="italic">dumb</span> kids? Halfway through this bloated movie, the most undemanding 10-year-old is going to think about sneaking out and switching theaters to catch the end of <span class="italic">The Avengers </span>again. <span class="italic">Battleship</span> makes you reconsider every mean thing you ever said about Michael Bay: Compared to this, even <span class="italic">Pearl Harbor </span>starts looking good. At least that picture, however misguided, had a pulse. You could feel the intent of the filmmakers; you could tell what they striving for.

Sophie Seydoux remembers the moment her heart almost stopped. The president of the Jerome Seydoux-Pathé Foundation, which had spearheaded an extensive 4K restoration of the 1945 classic <span class="italic">Children of Paradise </span>( <span class="italic">Les enfants du paradis</span>), was at the Cannes Film Festival last year, where the movie was about to debut in a pristine new version.

<span class="italic">The Dictator </span>does for Sacha Baron Cohen what <span class="italic">The Love Guru </span>did for Mike Myers: Reveal that this sharp, revered comedian with an uncanny ear for absurdist humor is a mere mortal capable of great folly. The movie isn’t bad enough to be a career killer, the way <span class="italic">Guru </span>forced Myers into hiding. But the latest collaboration between Cohen and director Larry Charles proves the formula they created with <span class="italic">Borat</span> and then started to milk dry with <span class="italic">Brüno</span> has finally run out of juice. Time to move on, guys.

Early on in <span class="italic">Bonsái</span>, a voiceover narrator informs us that the love blossoming between college students Julio (Diego Noguera) and Emilia (Nathalia Galgani) is doomed: Emilia will be dead by the end of the movie. Julio, however, will not. That’s the first sign that this unassuming, low-key movie, adapted from Alejandro Zambra’s acclaimed novella by writer-director Cristián Jiménez, is up to something different.

One is a bartender who aspires to become a professional illustrator. Another is a soldier with two kids who lives in a flyspeck town in North Dakota. There is an obsessive toy collector who is willing to stand in line for two days to get a shot at a hard-to-find action figure. One couple is on their honeymoon; another is about get engaged.

The good news is that Kathleen Turner has finally landed another starring role in a movie — her first since 1994’s <span class="italic">Serial Mom </span>(we’re just going to pretend <span class="italic">Baby Geniuses </span>never existed).

For a good while, <span class="italic">Dark Shadows </span>— Tim Burton’s big-budget reinvention of the late-1960s gothic TV soap opera — gets your hopes up. The film opens at a brisk, sweeping pace: In 1772, a spurned witch turns the aristocrat Barnabas into a vampire and seals him in a tomb, so he will suffer forever for not loving her. Two hundred years later, he is accidentally freed and is forced to adjust to the 1972 era of love-ins, hippies and red lava lamps (to him, they look like “pulsating blood urns.”)

What’s eating filmmaker Tony Kaye? In <span class="italic">Detachment</span>, his first feature film since 1998’s <span class="italic">American History X</span>, the director rails at everything: The public school system, bullying, bad parenting, apathy, corruption and oh these kids today! Kaye employs various film stocks, extreme close-ups, subliminal images and complex sound effects to put you inside the heads of his protagonists. You feel their boiling rage and frustration and disappointment. The movie has an undeniable visceral power. It is also a loud, grating wallow in dime-store despair, a cheap and hollow button-puncher.

A four-day celebration of comic-book culture kicks off Thursday at the O Cinema.

“Somewhere in the valley,” Peter (Christopher Denham) tells his girlfriend Lorna (Nicole Vicius), “there’s a woman living in a basement who says she’s from the future — and she’s amassing followers.” Peter, an aspiring filmmaker, has enlisted Lorna’s help in making a covert documentary about the growing cult. They have passed themselves off as members, and Peter has swallowed a tiny device that records the images he captures with the tiny camera hidden in his eyeglasses. Everything he sees, he films.

In order to make its target release date, <span class="italic">Men in Black 3</span> started shooting without a completed script. Now the movie is out, and I’m pretty sure the screenplay was never finished. Etan Cohen ( <span class="italic">Tropic Thunder</span>) is credited as the writer, although several other folks took passes at it. Cohen was just the guy who drew the short straw and wound up with his name in the credits. It’s a tough break, because the blame for this crass, empty movie doesn’t really rest with him.

The funny and beguiling <span class="italic">Bernie </span>recounts the curious case of Bernard Tiede (Jack Black), an assistant funeral director who became a pillar of the community in Carthage, Texas. Bernie, as everyone called him, took immense pride in his work, meticulously preparing and grooming corpses to ensure they looked their best to grieving relatives. Outside of the embalming room, Bernie sang at memorial services, comforted the bereaved long after their relatives had been buried, bought random gifts for people, organized fund raisers and helped anyone he possibly could.