BIG BUDGET FILMS

      The Ant Bully (PG for crude humor and action sequences) Animated morality play about a 10 year-old boy (Zach Tyler) who learns some important lessons about friendship and tolerance when he finds himself magically shrunk to the size of an insect after he deliberately flooded an ant hill with his water gun. Voice cast includes Nicolas Cage, Paul Giamatti, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Regina King and Ricardo Montalban.

      John Tucker Must Die (PG-13 for sex and expletives) Revenge comedy about a

womanizing playboy (Jesse Metcalfe) who gets what's coming to him when three of his ex-girlfriends (Ashanti, Sophia bush and Brittany snow) team up to turn the tables on him by talking the new girl in town into breaking his heart.

      Miami Vice (R for sex, expletives and graphic violence) Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx co-star in the screen adaptation of the citrus-colored TV-series about a couple of cool, crime-fighting detectives who walk a fine ethical line wooing women while working undercover to crack a drug cartel responsible for several murders in South Florida.

      Scoop (PG-13 for sexual content) Woody Allen wrote, directed and appears in this romantic comedy about an American journalism student (Scarlett Johansson) vacationing in London, who falls in love with a British aristocrat (Hugh Jackman) while attempting to crack the case of the Tarot Card Killer with help of an aging magician known as Sid "Splendini" Waterman (Allen).

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS

      13 Tzameti (Unrated) Set at a chateau in rural France, this psychological thriller revolves around a struggling, 20 year-old immigrant (Georges Babluani) seeking a solution for his money woes who ends up an unwilling participant in a high-stakes game of Russian roulette. (In French with subtitles)

      America: Freedom to Fascism (Unrated) Conspiracy theory documentary makes the case that the U.S. is well on its way to becoming a totalitarian state, due to an erosion of civil liberties courtesy of a combination of the IRS, rigged elections, the national ID card, radio frequency identification technology and the Federal Reserve Bank.

      Another Gay Movie (Unrated) Homosexual-sounding version of American Pie follows the adventures of four, gay high school grads (Andy Carbonaro, Mitch Morris, Jonah Blechman and Mitch Morris) who make a pact to lose their virginity before they head off to college.

     I Like Killing Flies (R for pervasive profanity) Dining documentary about the loyal clientele and eccentric owners of Shopsin's, an offbeat, closet-sized Greenwich Village eatery with over 900 items on the menu.

      Little Miss Sunshine (R for sex, expletives and drug use) Road comedy about a dysfunctional family's ordeal driving by VW bus from Albuquerque, NM to Redondo Beach, CA in order to enter their chubby, bespectacled seven year-old (Abigail Breslin) in a beauty pageant. Cast includes Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette as her doting parents, Alan Arkin as her heroin-snorting grandpa, Steve Carrell as her suicidal uncle, and Paul Dano as her mute brother.