Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

When Flint Lockwood's latest contraption accidentally destroys the town square and rockets up into the clouds, he thinks his inventing career is over. Then, something amazing happens as delicious cheeseburgers start raining from the sky. His machine actually works! But when people greedily ask for more and more food, the machine starts to run amok, unleashing spaghetti tornadoes and giant meatballs that threaten the world. Now it's up to Flint with the help of weather girl Sam Sparks and Steve, his talking monkey assistant, to find some way to shut down the machine before the world is covered in super-sized meatballs.

Director: Phil Lord, Chris Miller. Stars: Voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Mr.T, Neil Patrick Harris. 2009, 90 mins., animated.

The Final Destination 3D

Fourth outing in the popular series - this time in 3-D. On what should have been a fun-filled day at the races, Nick O'Bannon has a horrific premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple racecars to crash, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. When he comes out of this grisly nightmare, Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends, Janet and Hunt, to leave ... escaping seconds before Nick's frightening vision becomes a terrible reality. Thinking they've cheated death, the group has a new lease on life, but unfortunately for Nick and Lori, it is only the beginning. As his premonitions continue and the crash survivors begin to die one-by-one - in increasingly gruesome ways - Nick must figure out how to cheat death once and for all before he, too, reaches his final destination.

Director: David Ellis. Stars: Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Krista Allen, Mykelti Williamson, Haley Webb, Nick Zano, Andrew Fiscella, Richard T. Jones. 2009, 82 mins., horror.

Bright Star

Set during the heart of the British Romantic movement in the 19th century and based on the true-life love story between wistful poet John Keats and the clever Fanny Brawne. In London in 1818 a secret love affair begins between 23-year-old English poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, an outspoken student of fashion. This unlikely duo started at odds: he thought her a stylish minx, she was unimpressed by literature in general. But when Keats's younger brother falls ill, John and Fanny are drawn together. Keats, touched by Fanny's efforts to help care for his brother, agrees to teach her poetry. By the time Fanny's alarmed mother and Keats's best friend Charles Armitage Brown realized the lovers' attachment, the relationship had an unstoppable momentum. Intensely and helplessly absorbed in each other, they were swept into powerful new sensations: "I have the feeling as if I were dissolving," Keats wrote to her. Together they rode a wave of romantic obsession that deepened as their troubles mounted. And only Keats's own fatal illness proved insurmountable.

Director: Jane Campion. Stars: Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Thomas Sangster, Paul Schneider, Samuel Barnett, Kerry Fox, Roger Ashton-Griffiths. 2009, 119 mins., romance.