Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun        

Cevin Soling decided to conduct his own research to determine whether the horrifying accounts of barbarism he had read in the 7th grade were really accurate.

This riveting, visually-captivating and thought-provoking sci-fi is well-enough executed to recommend for avid sci-fi fans, even if the heavy-handed, faith-based symbolism ("Where's my cross?" and "After all this, you still believe!") gets to be a bit much.

Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun        

Stunning Portland theatre fans with her incredible voice and talent, Chicago-born actress Chavez Ravine stars with Lena Kaminsky in "Black Pearl Sings!" The play by Frank Higgins tells the story of a 1930s music scholar who strikes up a relationship with an incarcerated singer, Pearl, to mine her family history. The show is a musical tour de force for Ravine, who is performing with PCS for the first time.

Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun        

Ambitious Ghetto Orphan Tested in All Ways in Sobering Coming-of-Age Saga

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- A handwritten sign that said "whites hate blacks" and was carried by one of more than 2,000 protesters in Johannesburg on Tuesday shows that a fierce national debate over a painting depicting the president's genitals is about more than art and the constitution.

Alien-Fighting Franchise Revived for Time-Travel Finale

Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones' sequel "Men in Black 3" debuted as the No. 1 movie over Memorial Day weekend with $55 million domestically from Friday to Sunday.