Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun

As with Cheech and Chong's string of classic stoner comedies of a generation ago, it looks like longevity might also be in store for relatively-nerdy Harold & Kumar's series of similarly-themed, Marijuana misadventures.

Have you ever noticed how few African-American Republicans there are? At any Grand Old Party gathering you see on TV, there are generally so few Blacks in attendance that they tend to stand out like a sore thumb.

Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Laurence Fishburne is the narrator for an upcoming PBS documentary on black workers in the post-slavery South.

Are you overweight? There's a very good chance that the National Institute of Health (NIH) might consider you obese. That's because in 1998 it lowered the threshold from 28 to 25 on the Body-Mass Index (BMI) index.

The play, by the award-winning Atlanta-based writer Pearl Cleage offers an intimate story of an African-American couple whose lives were forever changed after they became Freedom Riders, during the civil rights era.

Fair warning: This revealing expose' is not for diehard supporters of Sarah Palin. The damning biopic essentially paints the former governor of Alaska as less of a Mama Grizzly Bear than a power-hungry witch who goes to great lengths to crush her adversaries, whether they be political or personal.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Three men released nearly two decades after they were convicted of killing three Arkansas Cub Scouts are in New York for a movie screening about their case.

"The Ides of March" (R for pervasive profanity): George Clooney wrote, directed and co-stars in this adaptation of the play "Farragut North," a political potboiler about an idealistic press secretary (Ryan Gosling) who compromises a presidential candidate's prospects by becoming embroiled in a scandal while on the campaign trail. With Marisa Tomei, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman Jeffrey Wright and Evan Rachel Wood.