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Peter O'Toole plays an aging actor who forges an improbable and moving alliance with an insolent teenage girl. Jodie Whittaker and Vanessa Redgrave costar. Roger Michell directs. (95 min, R)

Ken Watanabe stars in Clint Eastwood's companion piece to Flags of Our Fathers, which tells the story of the same WWII battle from the perspective of the Japanese. Co-starring Shido Nakamura. (141 min, R)

Kolya Spiridonov stars in director Andrey Kravchuk's heart tugger about a 6-year-old Russian boy who escapes from an oppressive orphanage to search for the mother who abandoned him. With Denis Moiseenko and Sasha Sirotkin. (99 min, PG-13)

George Clooney teams up again with director Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven) to play a foreign correspondent in 1945 Berlin in this black-and-white homage to classic film noir. Cate Blanchett costars. (145 min, R)

From the folks who brought you Scary Movie and Date Movie comes yet another random collection of spoofs. Featuring Carmen Electra, David Carradine and Kal Penn. Directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. (80 min, PG-13)

Mel Gibson directs this English-free action adventure set against the backdrop of the fall of the Mayan civilization. (139 min, R)

by Marc Awodey (published 05/23/07).

EXHIBIT: "Primavera 2007," a collection of works by 11 local Hispanic or Latin-influenced artists. Flynndog, Burlington. Through May 28.

ARTWORK:"Abstraction" by Amaru Chiza

The oldest paintings in the world exist in Spain. Around 30,000 years ago, naturalistic images of Pleistocene animals took shape on the ceiling of a group of caves near

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Chameleons use their stupendously strong tongues to reach out and capture their prey, which can be up to one-sixth their size. The equivalent for you would be if you could snag a big chicken with the muscular organ in your mouth. I'm not predicting you'll develop that skill in the coming days. But I do believe you'll have a powerful tongue in the sense that the words you shape with it will have a prodigious capacity to change your surroundings and influence everyone around you.

In the world of games, a "port" stands for something other than the place where a cruise ship docks. The term indicates a game programmed for one system that's eventually recoded for another.

And like any translation, if done right it retains the flavor of the original. Do it wrong, and the result is a mumbled mess of bad resemblances and damaged copies.

Fortunately, "Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars" and "Rayman Raving Rabbids" survived the conversion to the Xbox 360 and live to delight another group of gamers.

Curses, Foiled Again When three armed men robbed a Wendy's in North Miami Beach, Fla., one of them was hiding his face with a loose-fitting bandana. It slipped off, revealing a tear-shaped tattoo under his right eye. Several employees said they got a good look at the man's face. Four days later, employees recognized the same man, telltale tear tattoo and all, walking through the door.