entertainment - "movies"

Millions around the world know Julie Andrews from her songs in movies such as 'The Sound of Music.' Less well-known is the true story of her path to stardom, which she tells in her new memoir, 'Home.'

'You wake up and the nightmare begins. You look in the mirror and all you see is a stranger."So goes the tough-guy voice-over on the trailer for Film Noir, an animated thriller steeped in the shadowy menace and hard-boiled romanticism of James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler, of the L.A. of Chinatown, of all the alienated, double-crossed, doomed, dangerous and endangered gumshoes of the genre known as noir.

TV News: Channel will remain 75% sport programming -- The Madison Square Garden Network has begun scheduling movies for the first time in its 38-year history, including 'All the Right Moves,' 'Requiem for a Heavyweight' and the concert/biopic 'Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise.'

International News: Distribution company packages films to Japan -- Kadokawa Entertainment has secured a deal with Hong Kong library operation Celestial Pictures to handle a package of Celestial's Shaw Bros. movies in Japan.

One of the more pleasant aspects of 'Nim's Island' is that it doesn't fit any of the known profiles for modern family movies: no hip pop-culture references aimed at mom and dad, no world-weary kids cracking wise, no tie-in soundtrack CD. There's only one fart, and it issues from a sea lion.