Now that we're into November, awards season kicks off in earnest with big new releases such as Chicken Little. Wait. Sorry. Our mistake. After what seems like more than a year of trailers, the sky is finally falling for Disney's big animation experiment, but we actually meant Jarhead. Somehow, even arriving with an amazing pedigree that includes Oscar winning American Beauty director Sam Mendes, a best selling memoir as source material, and stars such as Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard and Jamie Foxx, the movie will still have to overcome comparisons to the brilliant, ofen-overlooked and underrated Three Kings. Not that we worry too much for Jarhead; it's still the major must-see this weekend.

So what else is new: As usual, there are also some smaller newbies which excite us, none more so than The Last Mogul: The Life and Times of Lew Wasserman, a documentary opening tomorrow at the IFC Center. Wasserman was arguably the most powerful man in Hollywood for most of the 20th Century. Yet unlike studio heads and fame-hungry agents, Wasserman was notoriously (and deliberately) publicity shy. His company MCA was an agency and a studio, representing the biggest stars while also producing and distributing their films. In fact, MCA was the biggest reason that anti-trust legislation was imposed on the big studios; Wasserman shut down his company's agency operations in order to concentrate on MCA's Universal Studios. He left very little in the way documentation about his life and work, two things which alone provide a pretty good history of the film industry and its development. (The director of The Last Mogul, Barry Avrich, will attend the 7:20 and 9:45 screenings on Friday.)

Midnight Movie Smackdown: Shockwaves blew through our world last week. No, not the Scooter Libby indictment or Sam Alito's Supreme nomination; those were expected. Rather, like us the Landmark Sunshine was obviously stunned by the revelation that George "Mr. Sulu" Takei is gay. Who could have guessed? Kudos to the Sunshine for honoring Takei's bravery by screening the best of all Star Trek films this weekend at midnight. That's right, people; Ricardo Mantolban in a mullet: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Meanwhile, the IFC Center continues its "Midnight Rocks" series with Madonna: Truth or Dare. Now, had this Sulu news not come down the Pike (Trekkers should love that one), I might not have caught it, but now, I think I may see the connection.

But wait, there's more: If you still have never seen In Cold Blood, tonight's 7 PM screening at Film Forum would be a good time to catch it. After the feature, famed documentarian Albert Maysles will be on hand to introduce his short about author Truman Capote, With Love from Truman. This is a one-time only appearance and screening.

On Sunday, Ocularis at Galapagos in Williamsburg features a program called "There Goes the Neighborhood: Gentrification on Film" (scroll down), a series comprised mostly of short documentaries about every New Yorker's favorite neighborhood and real estate subject.

And finally, the Museum of the Moving Image's "Some Like It Wilder: The Complete Billy Wilder" series has only a few weeks left, but this weekend at 4:15 PM (both Sat. & Sun.), you can catch one of the late master's more interesting, and more curious, films, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Wilder takes a different tack with Holmes, focusing more on his psychology than on the mystery at hand, making him less rigid and more vulnerable than we're used to.