Also: "Tiny Furniture," "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930, Criterion Collection); "Beavis and Butt-Head: Volume Four," "All Things Fall Apart," "The Human Centipede 2," "The Mortician," "Stellaluna" (Scholastic) and "Doctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe."

"Mozart's Sister" (unrated, 120 minutes, in French with English subtitles, Music Box) gives Wolfgang's older sibling, Maria Anna (nicknamed Nannerl), her due. As the film opens, the Mozarts are stuck in the road with a broken axle. This leads to a stop at a nearby abbey, where the residents turn out to be Louis XV's daughters. Nannerl forms a friendship with the youngest girl, Louise. In a Shakespearean twist, Nannerl ends up dressed as a boy and performing in front of Louise's brother. The pair form a kinship based on their love of music, which persists once Nannerl's identity is revealed. Contains sexual situations. DVD Extras: original soundtrack CD with Marie-Jeanne Serero's score.

"The Rum Diary"

(R, 120 minutes, Sony): As a posthumous valentine to his old friend Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp's adaptation of "The Rum Diary" exudes a cheery, beery sense of warmth and affection. Brimming with Thompson's alcohol-drenched antics, observational wit and gift for the acidly apposite phrase, "The Rum Diary" also suffers from a creakily episodic structure and a fatally underwritten, flimsily acted supporting role. There's a sweetness in considering Thompson on the verge of creating his own myth, before it locked him into self- indulgent mannerisms. "I don't know how to write like me," Depp's character, Paul Kemp, meekly admits at one point. Eventually, of course, he did. Contains profanity, brief drug use and sexuality.

Extras: "A Voice Made of Ink and Rage: Inside The Rum Diary" featurette, "The Rum Diary Back-Story" documentary.

"Paranormal Activity" (R, 81 minutes, Paramount): Expanding on the intentionally vague original, the sequels spin a diabolical, if quite silly, mythos around two California sisters who attract poltergeists. We meet the two women in 2005, yet to experience the frights moviegoers have already witnessed. The siblings have just found a box of VHS videotapes from their childhood, and the rest of the movie pretends to be that footage. Back in 1988, Katie (Katie Featherston) and the younger Kristi (Sprague Grayden) live with their divorced mom, Julie, and her boyfriend, Dennis. Strange things start happening, which might be the fault of Kristi's imaginary friend. The underemployed Dennis (Christopher Nicholas Smith) happens to be a wedding videographer, so he has the gear to set up cameras all over the house. With or without video and computers, the gullible are still suckered by charlatans and scared by thumps in the night. "Paranormal Activity 3" just uses new technology to deliver the same old ghosts-and-goblins hokum. Contains violence, profanity, sexuality and pot smoking. Extras: "Lost Tapes."

"Woody Allen: A Documentary" (unrated, Docurama): What comes through most in "Woody Allen: A Documentary," Robert Weide's thorough, two-part PBS profile of the nebbishy auteur, is that Allen, who has made such a career out of neuroses, phobias and other assorted worries, seems nearly unaffected by what anyone has ever said about him or his work. "Woody Allen" does a nice job of surmounting all that has been said before and packaging it into a tidy, informative mini-epic. The film, part of the "American Masters" series, is helped immensely by the fact that Allen cooperated happily, granting the director lots of access to his closest collaborators and his thought processes.

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