James Cameron

The Men Who Stare At Goats . ( 3 STARS) It's gotten starkly contradictory reviews, but Grant Heslov's wild and woolly piece of fact-based fiction about the post-Vietnam Army's attempt to create a new fighting force with New Age attitudes and powers features outlandish and funny vignettes and a couple of happy, expansive performances from Jeff Bridges and George Clooney. And a lot of it really happened - though not in the way it does here. Opening next Friday Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans: (First Look Studios)

"Titanic," James Cameron's $200 million epic about the 1912 sea disaster, tied "Ben-Hur" with the most Oscars in history, winning 11 at last night's 70th annual Academy Awards ceremony.The blockbuster, which just last summer was rumored to be a flop in the making, won the Oscar for best picture as well as awards for: costumes, sound, sound effects editing, visual effects, original dramatic score, film editing, original song, cinematography, art direction and direction."Titanic's" 14 nominations had tied the record set by the 1950 film "All About Eve."

Taste, restraint and a few warm surprises were the order of the day at the 70th Academy Awards last night.The first award announced was also the evening's first upset, when a visibly stunned Kim Basinger took the Oscar for best supporting actress for her performance in "L.A. Confidential." Gloria Stuart, the 87-year-old actress who played a Titanic survivor in James Cameron's "Titanic," was expected by most odds-makers to win.Although "Titanic" had managed to sweep the awards in most technical categories, in artistic categories, the winners were sprinkled throughout the nominees.

Avatar . ( 3 STARS) $68.4 million $352.1 million 3 weeks Rated : PG-13 Running time : 2:40 What it's about : A paraplegic ex-Marine (Sam Worthington, above) controls the body of an "avatar," a body of a creature on another planet, and gets caught up in a struggle between the humans and the natives. Our take : James Cameron has delivered the most-anticipated blend of live-action and motion-capture animation to date, but the story's simplistic.

No sport whose world championship is decided by penalty kicks could keep Americans away from the movies. Although early projections for a record nonholiday-weekend box office proved unsupportable when actual attendance figures came in, World Cup couldn't crimp the nation's interest in world-beating movie heroes.Led by three powerhouse performers -- Arnold Schwarzenegger's action-comedy comeback "True Lies," the phenomenally strong holdover "Forrest Gump" and Disney's continually regal "The Lion King" -- the combined gross of 68 films in release was $101,650,507, according to the industry data clearinghouse Exhibitor Relations.