LOS ANGELES–What better way to promote your religious-themed comedy than to get up the frock of America's Catholic League president?

LOS ANGELES–When you're the king of blowing shit up and your giant-robot flick wins MTV's Best Summer Movie You Haven't Seen Yet award, some advance fawning from geeks might be nice. However, when it was announced that Bad Boys, The Rock, and Pearl Harbor director Michael Bay would be entrusted with bringing a live-action version of the Transformers toy-and-cartoon franchise to the screen, there was an eruption of criticism.

LOS ANGELES—At 68, Jon Voight is as steely-eyed and baby-faced as Joe Buck, the hayseed hustler in 1969’s Midnight Cowboy. More importantly, 30 years after accepting the best-actor Oscar for playing a paraplegic Vietnam war vet in 1978’s Coming Home, the distinguished actor remains relevant to today’s movie audiences. Having Angelina Jolie as your daughter keeps your name in the gossip rags. But more contributory to Voight’s cross-generational appeal is his own hot body of work.

LOS ANGELES–In the late '80s, around the time he played Daddy Warbucks in Grade 6, nine-year-old John Krasinski wrote a fan letter to Robin Williams to tell him he was his favourite actor. Williams wrote back. Neither one of them could have divined that 18 years later they would be exchanging cantankerous repartee in the romantic comedy License to Wed .

Starring Angelina Jolie. Rated PG. Opens Friday, June 22, at the Fifth Avenue Cinemas

Starring Lindsay Lohan, Jane Fonda, and Felicity Huffman. Rated 14A. Now playing at the Cinemark Tinseltown and the Fifth Avenue Cinemas

Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Jim Broadbent. Rated 14A. Opens Friday, April 20, at the Fifth Avenue Cinemas and the Cinemark Tinseltown

How are you gonna top the first one, then? That might be the question tripping off the tongues of Shaun of the Dead cultists upon learning that movie scribes Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg, also the director and star, respectively, of that 2004 hit zombie flick, have a new film in the can. But with their action-comedy Hot Fuzz, the two had no time to worry about a sophomore slump.

Starring Bruce Greenwood, Josh Hutcherson, and Steven Culp. Rated G.

Starring Sandra Bullock and Julian McMahon. Rated PG.

 

Starring John Travolta, William H. Macy, Martin Lawrence, and Tim Allen. Rated PG.

Starring Hilary Swank and Scott Glenn. Rated PG.

Starring Michelle Trachtenberg and Katie Cassidy. Rated 18A.

Starring Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick. Rated general.

Directed by Marc Forster. Starring Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Rated general. Opens Friday, November 10, at the Cinemark Tinseltown

Starring Tim Allen, Martin Short, and Elizabeth Mitchell. Rated general. For showtimes, please see page 79

Starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher. Rated PG.

“Jesus Christ! This guy is smoking!” That exclamation about Channing Tatum on a TV.com message board pretty much sums up the sentiment surrounding the 26-year-old nowadays.

At 5-3 and tucked neatly into a pink, spaghetti-strapped frock and five-inch white heels, Jenna Dewan is sugar, spice, and everything nice and dainty, no?

The long-time “moron” man of fart fame gets serious for his latest dramedy””but not too serious.

Sometimes we can't see the forest for the trees. In the case of Kate Beckinsale, however, we couldn't hear the comedian because the siren was too loud.

For Bruce Willis, cool means portraying as many tenderhearted, flawed heroes as ass kickers and hard-boiled cops””and then turning around and making movies to which Nana can take the grandkids.

Garry Shandling's first foray into animal-voice work was a fly-on gig as a hapless male pigeon in 1998's Dr. Doolittle.

Starring Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, and Charlotte Rampling. Rated 18A.

Starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey. Rated PG.

Starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Cauffiel. Rated G. Opens Friday, March 10, at the Cinemark Tinseltown

Starring Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, and Eddie Griffin, Rated 14A.

Starring Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, and Virginia Madsen. Rated PG.

Starring Queen Latifah, Gérard Depardieu, and Timothy Hutton. Rated PG.

Starring Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Ruffalo, and Mena Suvari. Rated PG.

Starring Steve Martin, Eugene Levy, Bonnie Hunt, and Carmen Electra. Rated G.

Starring Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni. Rated PG.

A documentary by Joe Fab and Elliot Berlin. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 80

Starring Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, Amy Smart, and Chris Klein. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 80

Directed by Jim Sheridan. Starring Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Terrence Howard. Rated 18A. Now playing at the Silvercity Metropolis, the Colossus Langley, and others

Starring Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, and Hope Davis. Rated 14A. For showtimes, please see page 82

Starring Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman, and Bryan Greenberg. Rated PG. Opens Friday, October 28, at the Paramount

Starring Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean, and Woody Harrelson. Rated 18A. For showtimes, please see page 70

Starring Jodie Foster, Sean Bean, Peter Sarsgaard. Rated PG.

Starring Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, Morgan Freeman, and Becca Gardner. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 179

Starring Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy. Rating unavailable.

Starring Rob Schneider and Eddie Griffin. Rated 14A. For showtimes, please see page 68

Starring Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear, and Chris Noth. Rated general.

Bears shit in the woods. That's why I don't. I hate camping. I detest lying in wait for that first mosquito to begin whining in my ear and me visualizing the 100-metre dash to the bathroom when dawn and bladder break.

Starring Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Vince Vaughn. Rated 14A.

Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, and Paul Giamatti. Rated PG.

The Travelling World Community Film Festival brings its message of awareness, analysis, and action to Langara College next Friday through Sunday (February 11 to 13), giving documentary lovers and indignation junkies an opportunity to, among other things, move on from Bush-bashing to South Africa's Bushmen.

Peter Raymont's documentary Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire, about the Canadian general's attempts to halt Rwanda's 1994 genocide, ended up taking home the audience award for the best international documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.

Starring Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Jennifer Lopez, and Stanley Tucci. Rating unavailable.