First, the news.

Insider baseball: Chicago film critics throw a fit over studios’ manipulative screening practices.

Government scolds: The FTC released its report about marketing “torture porn” to young’uns.

Preemptive propaganda: Iran says it’s making a movie and a book out of the British hostage situation. (Via the IFC blog.)

Hearts aflutter: The Joe Wright adaptation of Atonement has a teaser. (Via the IFC blog.)

And a barrage of openings: In On Screen this week, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (gee, thanks, Borat), Perfect Stranger (Halle Berry annoys Megan Seling, and Bruce Willis scares her), Wild Tigers I Have Known (fashion, not film).

Pop quiz: Which is the gay movie? (Mouse over for answers.)

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Okay, back to On Screen: Black Book (from the director of Showgirls: a Holocaust adventure movie that is “epic, old-fashioned, and genuinely moving”), Pathfinder (there are B-grade Viking epics, and then there are D-grade Viking epics), and the sturdy, sensitive, entirely unpronounceable Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (it’s about Balkan rape babies).

Not yet reviewed, but available for your movie-times searching pleasure: the teenybopper Rear Window takeoff Disturbia, the automobile porn Redline, and the “urban” Usual Suspects ripoff Slow Burn.

In Limited Runs this week, accessible via Get Out: The very, very, actual last weekend of the brilliant locally produced documentary Iraq in Fragments; the loose, gorgeous bumpkin-in-the-big-city tale Entre la mer et l’eau douce; Sean Nelson’s favorite movie EVER, The Third Man; Three Dollar Bill’s very cool ’50s queer cinema series continues with the women’s prison drama Caged; and Pacific Place presents a previously recorded screening of Metropolitan Opera’s Eugene Onegin. And in SIFF Cinema’s lovely Janus series: Roman Polanski’s debut Knife in the Water, the Aussie outback drama Walkabout, Hitchcock’s slightly nutty The Lady Vanishes, and a couple by Kurosawa starting Wednesday and Thursday.