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Bob Powell was armed with a slingshot that dark night when he went to do surveillance on a reported moonshine operation.

"BATTLE FOR THE SUN," Placebo (Vagrant)

A guide to movies from a family perspective:

"Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs"

-- Rated: PG.

-- Best for: Preschoolers who can sit attentively through a movie that's roughly an hour and a half (and all the previews and commercials before).

"Exciting -- morbid -- perverse -- ambiguous -- enigmatic -- more fascinating than ever -- Barbara Steele!"

"Big Brother 11" will make high-school socializing look complicated when the new season begins (8 p.m. EDT Thursday on CBS).

"You may have graduated, but the truth is, we never leave high school and this summer we are going to prove it," says executive producer Allison Grodner.

Do your children say they're bored? Try one of these books or craft kits as an antidote:

-- Part graphic novel, part drawing manual, "Adventures in Cartooning" (First Second, $12.95) is total fun. It's a rare kid who won't find something to enjoy in this interactive book, written by James Sturm, Andrew Arnold and Alexis Frederick-Frost. (Ages 6-12.)

They can change the name of the network but evidently not their often-bland programming.

Sci Fi Channel re-brands itself as Syfy this week, a silly name that's appropriate for silly new show "Warehouse 13," which has its two-hour premiere at 9 p.m. EDT Tuesday.

Among late-1990s teen movies, "10 Things I Hate About You" has a better reputation than its peers. Ten years later, that also holds true for a new ABC Family TV series based on the movie.

Here are 10 things to know about the new half-hour show (premiering 8 p.m. EDT Tuesday):

1. "10 Things" is easily the network's best comedy to date.

The news that Warner Home Video was releasing a newly discovered version of Hal Ashby's early-'80s gambling comedy, "Lookin' to Get Out," was reason to get excited.

When the classy publisher NBM has new books, it's always like Christmas around the Comics Cave. One present comes from South Korea, and the other is from our old friend, Rick Geary.