AP - Japanese fishermen herded dolphins into a cove made famous by an Oscar-winning documentary about the hunt but did not kill any Friday, as conservationist groups ramped up scrutiny of the annual slaughter.

AP - A French skyscraper climber nicknamed "Spider-Man" pleaded not guilty Friday to charges related to his bare-handed climb up a 57-story building in downtown Sydney.

Reuters - Sure to excite curiosity thanks to the reputation of director Julian Schnabel ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly") and its controversial topicality, "Miral" dramatically but unevenly explores the lives of four Palestinian women during the years of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

AP - "Brazil on the Rise" (Palgrave Macmillan, $27) by Larry Rohter: When Larry Rohter stepped down as The New York Times' Brazil bureau chief in 2008, he was easily the most reviled foreign correspondent in the country.

AP - The spectacle of a morose Hollywood writer who is down on his luck shouldn't really be funny. But Kenny Solms, himself a successful, longtime Hollywood writer, takes the concept and runs with it in his amusing new comedy, "It Must Be Him."

AP - Twentieth Century Fox's "Machete" is set to slice up the competition as director Robert Rodriguez's star-studded extravaganza will likely dominate the weekend with a Friday through Monday total of around $16 million.

AP - Sara Paretsky's latest installment in her series about feisty, female private detective V.I. Warshawski opens with the heroine outside a Chicago nightclub, the bloody body of a woman who was just shot to death in her arms.