At the theaters 5/10

Guy Strauss'Changing Lanes'

This is the story of what happens one day in New York when a young lawyer and a businessman share a small automobile accident on F.D.R. Drive that their mutual road rage escalates into a feud. Rated R for language, running time 95 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Clockstoppers'

A scientist invents a mechanism that speeds up any target that it hits to 25 times their normal speed, effectively making it seem to that person like time is standing still. The race is on to find a way to reverse the effects when his son and a friend are zapped. Rated PG for action violence and mild language, running time 95 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Deuces Wild'

It's about a gang war in Brooklyn, 1958, the year the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. In their wake, the local kids have to deal with the influences of guns, drugs, and "wiseguys". Rated R for strong violence, language, some drug content and brief sexuality, running time 100 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'High Crimes'

A San Francisco attorney who teams up with a former military attorney to defend her husband in military court. The military has declared him a deserter, charging him with participating in a mass killing in El Salvador. Rated PG-13 for violence, sexual content and language, running time 115 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Ice Age'

Set during the Ice Age, this is the story of a human infant who is found by a group of animals that includes a woolly mammoth, a sabre-toothed tiger, and a pair of giant sloths. Together, they try to reunite the baby with his parents. Rated PG for mild peril, running time 88 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinemas)

'Life, or ... Like It'

A reporter, Lanie Kerrigan, interviews a psychic homeless man for a fluff piece about a football game's score. Instead, he tells her that her life has no meaning, and is going to end in just a few days, which sparks her to action, trying to change the pattern of her life. Rated PG-13 for sexual content, brief violence and language, running time 105 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Murder by Numbers'

Two gifted high school students commit a series of "perfect murders," engaging in a battle of wits with an police detective who is working with a green partner. Through her investigation, the profiler discovers dark secrets in the teens' past that explain how the two could be capable of such cold, calculated crimes. Rated R for violence, language, a sex scene and brief drug use, running time 105 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'The New Guy'

After a few years of being the "uncool kid", a high school student gets himself expelled, and even ends up in prison. While there, his cellmate, Luther gives him some tips on how to remake his image, so he can start again at a different high school, reinvented as the "cool kid". Rated PG-13 for sexual content, language, crude humor and mild drug references, running time 90 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Panic Room'

This story centers around a divorced woman in her 30's and her daughter, who are caught up in a cat-and-mouse game inside their New York brownstone when three burglars come looking for a hidden cache of cash. Mother and daughter hide in the "panic room," a secret room designed for just such a purpose. Rated R for violence and language, running time 110 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'The Rookie'

Jim Morris, a Texas high school baseball coach makes a deal with his team: If they make the playoffs, he'll try out for a pitcher position with a professional team. The big surprise is that he makes the team, fulfilling his lifelong dream. Rated G, running time 130 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'The Scorpion King'

Set in very early ancient Egypt, this is the story of how a peasant who wreaks revenge on a marauding army who pillaged his village and how he eventually becomes the First Pharoah of Egypt, known as the Scorpion King. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action violence and some sensuality , running time 95 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Showtime'

This spoof of buddy cop movies is about two very different police officers who are forced to work together, as stars of a new reality-based TV show a major city's police department hopes will boost their publicity, morale, and image in general. Rated PG-13 for action violence, language and some drug content, running time 95 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Spider-man'

Spiderman started off as shy high school student Peter Parker, until he was bitten by a genetically- altered spider, giving him amazing abilities. Over time, he learns that with great power, comes great responsibility. Rated PG-13 for stylized violence and action, running time 112 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)

'The Sweetest Thing'

A sexy club-hopper finds that she must educate herself on the correct etiquette of wooing a man when she finally meets her Mr. Right and has no idea what to do about it. Rated R for strong sexual content and language, running time 85 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Unfaithful'

An erotic thriller that centers on a couple living in the New York city suburbs whose marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling. Rated R for sexuality, language and a scene of violence, running time 123 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinemas)

'Van Wilder'

Van Wilder, a college student in his seventh year and still just a senior, learns that his father will not pay for another semester, but Van is so in love with the cushy college life that he will do anything to stay (including making sure he doesn't graduate). Rated R for strong sexual content, gross humor, language and some drug content, running time 95 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

-- From wire reports