Jodi Arias insists she killed lover Travis Alexander in 2008 at his suburban Phoenix home in self-defense during a violent fight. She then took pictures of his body, cleaned the scene, drove to Utah and proceeded to tell a series of lies to cover her tracks. She now says it was such a traumatic experience that she remembers little of the actual killing.

I watched Kevin Costner's message at the Whitney Houston ceremony on Saturday. I have rarely heard or seen such an eloquent and touching discourse, that was also obviously painful for him to do. He spoke to the common church experiences they had as youngsters, he interjected humor and he told a back-story of postponing "The Bodyguard" for a year to fit that movie around her touring schedule because she was the right person for the role. I have just elevated him to an even higher level in my "respect for certain people" category. Had he delivered such a dialogue in a movie, as an actor, he would have easily received an Academy Award. In this case, it was simply from the heart. Wow, what an impressive human being!

"Hide Away" is the story of a man who moves aboard a decrepit sailboat that is moored in a tiny harbor tucked-away on Lake Michigan’s shore. He’s escaping some sort of tragedy that has driven him to the solitude of this isolated haven and he meets others there with pitiable pasts who help guide him through his lament.

The biographical one-woman show “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill” peeks into one of the final performances of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday. “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” which opens for one weekend only at Peoria Center for the Performing Arts, is a joint collaboration between Theater Works and the Black Theatre Troupe.

 Lord Charles Fig of New Town is a multi-tasker. As the King’s Chancellor of Foreign Affairs, he spends his days at the Arizona Renaissance Festival parading around with the royal court, acting as diplomat to both commoners and His Majesty’s special guests, and ... baby-sitting.

In canonizing the passengers who wrest control of a hijacked aircraft from a band of suicidal religious fanatics in “United 93,” British filmmaker Paul Greengrass has created — in essence if not in fact — a 9/11 passion play.

Earlier this week, quarterback Sherdrick Bonner emerged from the Rattlers’ locker room at Veterans Memorial Coliseum looking weary. He was asked how he was feeling, a question pertaining to his sore left (throwing) shoulder.

Let's just be glad Smell-O-Vision never caught on.

"Mud" has the feel of a classic, although it's perhaps not enthralling enough to be one. The third and most elaborate feature to date from writer-director Jeff Nichols seems to have been adapted from a novel that doesn't exist -- something by James Lee Burke, perhaps, or Cormac McCarthy, or some other specialist in frequently violent tales about the challenges to masculinity and the forging of new identities that face rural people who belong to a sprawling modern world -- who might be hanging out in a supermarket parking lot one moment and falling into a creek full of deadly cottonmouths the next.

"Warm Bodies," the latest permutation of the zombie screen phenomenon, places heart over horror and romantic teen angst over sharp social commentary.

Zombies are terrible characters. That’s not to say there haven’t been plenty of good movies featuring zombies like “28 Days Later,” “Shaun of the Dead,” “Zombieland,” and the George A. Romero classics.

Mockumentary filmmakers Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (Catfish) know a thing or two about misdirecting an audience, as they proved again with 2011's "Paranormal Activity 3." Together with returning screenwriter Christopher Landon, this time around they seem short on new ideas, however, relying more on the series' reputation for low-budget thrills to attract audiences.

The contradiction inherent to all Wes Anderson films — the juxtaposition of the meticulous artificiality of the settings and the passionately wistful emotions that are longing to burst free — is at its most effective in a while in "Moonrise Kingdom."

"Safe" is the worst Jason Statham movie since the last Jason Statham movie, carrying on the bargain-budget action star's tradition of building a body of work out of, well, dead bodies.

‘The Cabin in the Woods” is a difficult movie to discuss without giving away a few plot details. I’ll do my best to not spoil anything major throughout the course of this review. To be on the safe side though, I implore you to put down this paper now and just head to the theater without any prior knowledge. This is a movie you’re going to want to experience completely fresh.

‘The Cabin in the Woods” is a difficult movie to discuss without giving away a few plot details. I’ll do my best to not spoil anything major throughout the course of this review. To be on the safe side though, I implore you to put down this paper now and just head to the theater without any prior knowledge. This is a movie you’re going to want to experience completely fresh.

The film speed of 24 frames-per-second barely outruns the relentless pace of pummeling that thumps through the Indonesian martial arts flick "The Raid: Redemption."

Robert Sobarzo stood on the mat and couldn't believe what was unfolding in front of him.

Robert Sobarzo stood on the mat and couldn't believe what was unfolding in front of him.

In "Red Tails," the famed Tuskegee Airmen get the John Wayne-style heroic rendering they very much deserve, but in a hackneyed and weirdly context-less story that does them a disservice.

The original "Footloose" may have had an absurd premise and not even a tacit acknowledgement of the existence of people any color besides white, but it was an ‘80s movie, after all.

Fox's long-in-gestation "Terra Nova" will finally see the light of day this coming week, and the show turns out to be a cross between "Jurassic Park" and this year's short-lived, colonizing-a-new-planet BBC America drama, "Outcasts."

Like Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name, Ryan Gosling is simply known as the Driver in "Drive." Actually, he's barely even known as that, because the few people he comes into contact with don't really call him anything.