Bacon tastes good. Certainly much better than pork chops or ham or anything else made from a pig. Just ask the contestants at the World Bacon Eating Championship, which is part of the International Bacon Day Festival Saturday starting at 3 p.m. at the Blue Ash Recreation Center. Several of America’s most impressive competitive eaters will be on hand for the "pork-slappin' chowdown," including Columbus native Mark 'The Human Vacuum' Lyle. The festival runs 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and includes events (and treats) for your dogs.  

Supposedly a reboot of Joe Dante's 1978 original, Alexandre Aja's 3-D-enhanced version is an unabashedly bloody excursion into B-movie mayhem that features a cast of familiar faces (Elisabeth Shue, Ving Rhames, Christopher Lloyd and Jerry O'Connell, as well as cameos by Eli Roth and Richard Dreyfuss). Grade: C-plus.  

Based on a Jeffrey Eugenides short story and directed by Will Speck and Josh Gordon, this predictable romantic comedy finds Jennifer Aniston playing as single career woman seeking a sperm donor for the child she wants before it's too late, only to have her selected juice accidentally and unknowingly swapped out for that of a longtime friend (Jason Bateman) who has the hots for her. Grade: C.  

Released just in time to (no doubt coincidently) synch with WikiLeaks' recent publication of the U.S. Military's Afghanistan war logs, the DVD released of co-directors Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith’s Oscar-nominated documentary looks at the events that compelled Daniel Ellsberg, a former Marine and defense department staffer, to leak the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times in an effort to stop what he deemed an unjust Vietnam War. Grade: A-  

Based on a novel by French writer Christian Gailly, the French filmmaker Alain Resnais' latest is a madcap, often nonsensical comedy of manners with no comedy and endless mannerisms. The 88-year-old Resnais still has an eye for composition and a nice feel for editing. Grade: C.  

Spoon is the Pete Rose of Indie Rock: consistently strong performers year after year, album after album, show after show. The Austin-based quartet founded by singer/guitarist Britt Daniel has been forcing its will on discerning listeners for more than 15 years now, a slow build that culminated in its last two albums — 2007's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga and this year's Transference — debuting in the Top 10 on the Billboard charts.  

Spoon is the Pete Rose of Indie Rock: Consistently strong performers year after year, album after album, show after show. The Austin-based quartet founded by singer/guitarist Britt Daniel has been forcing its will on discerning listeners for more than 15 years now, a slow build that culminated in its last two albums.  

Tilda Swinton is oddly alluring in some roles ('Orlando') and just plain odd in others ('Michael Clayton'). Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino takes advantage of her unique presence in 'I Am Love,' an elegant, Renoir-esque family drama that touches on everything from issues of globalism and social class to sexuality and the pleasures of good food. Grade: A-.  

The annual 48 Hour Film Project has done exactly what its creators envisioned when they founded it in 2001: empower filmmakers of every stripe and experience level to get off their asses and create something from nothing. Filmmaking teams have 48 hours to make a short film four to seven minutes in length in which each team makes use of the same prop, character name and line of dialogue. The finished films from the local project will be screened Saturday and Sunday at the Cincinnati Art Museum.  

Over the course of its now 10-year existence, Liars has gone from off-the-cuff Art Rock punks to, well, slightly more evolved Art Rock punks. Formed in 2000 by lanky Aussie native Angus Andrew and fellow Los Angeles art-school veteran Aaron Hemphill — the only constants in the band's shifting lineups — the band has transitioned to more "traditional" songwriting on its latest album, 'Sisterworld.'