After a slow build-up, Oscar season is coming in like a lion. Mandela! Tom Ford directing! An Alice Sebold novel! This weekend's got prestige written all over it.

Hard to see anyone knocking the teenage vampires off their perch this weekend — especially as Up In the Air is only in limited release — but a few old stalwarts are reporting for duty and ready to try.

Buyer beware this weekend at the box office. There's a little something targeted for everybody out there, but every film comes with some major red flags.

The Oscar season begins in earnest this weekend. But will the moviegoers bite?

If ever there were a weekend to be grateful for the entertainment value of costumed children demanding desserts, this is it. A ghoulish crop of openings awaits your movie-going dollar this Halloween.

It's Halloween season at the multi-plex; which means that if today's brand of torture-centric "thrills" is not your cup of tea, cinema offers few reasons not to stay in your house and barricade the doors.

After a couple good weeks at the theaters, its a bit of a minefield awaiting your weekend entertainment. But no one ever said going to the movies was a coward's game; once more into the breach!

The weekend's big question is whether a trio of decent looking British imports can make a dent in the latest installment of Vince Vaughn's crusade against comedy. Our guess is no.