By BETSY PICKLE, Scripps Howard News Service

"Then She Found Me," Helen Hunt's first film as a director, digs into human nature without using any protective gear.Raw and hopeful, funny and dark, "Then She Found Me" is a story of children and parents, lovers and exes, and biological clocks ticking loudly. It's about people who ask too much without knowing how to give.

Imagination slams into reality in "The Fall," a fairy-tale concoction of bandits and betrayal that's far more Grimm than Disney.

"Son of Rambow" is a kids' story but is more of an adult movie.The time frame, setting and pop-culture references are intended to connect with grown-ups. Some of the themes that flow through the tale might resonate with younger viewers, but others could seem too removed or alien.

The title may not roll off one's tongue as easily as those of its predecessors, but "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" revives the sense of heroic adventure of the long-dormant series. It just does so accompanied by a bunch of old-age jokes.

After seeing a performance by the Young(at)Heart Chorus in London, British filmmaker Stephen Walker stayed after the show to talk to Bob Cilman, director of the Northampton, Mass.-based ensemble. Walker proposed making a documentary on the senior citizens' group, whose set list includes songs by James Brown, the Clash and Coldplay.

Children learn a lot from their parents, even from parents who aren't around. "The Year My Parents Went on Vacation" uses some of those absentee lessons in a coming-of-age story that tries to look at the world from a child's point of view.

The first thing you notice about writer-director David Mamet's "Redbelt" is that it doesn't rely on his trademark verbal choreography. Or maybe it does, but this time silence is as crucial as dialogue.

The truth is out: Filmmaker brothers Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski do have a lighter side than what they showed in directing and writing the "Matrix" trilogy and in writing "V for Vendetta."

Comic-book movies tend to attract more males than females, but Leslie Bibb thinks "Iron Man" could bridge the gap."I think this movie is one that's definitely for guys, but ... I was asking people yesterday, and a lot of women were surprised at how much they liked it," says Bibb. "I think they expect not to.

"Iron Man" is like "Star Trek: The Motion Picture."You know the comic-book superhero has to have a set-up before a single film can become a franchise, but there's some tough slogging here on the way to an ending that opens the door to a future "Wrath of Khan."