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“Zack and Miri Make a Porno” goes roughly the direction you’d expect it to go. Zack and Miri make a porno, for example. Then the two late-20s roommates, played by the supernaturally easygoing Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks, discover that having sex on camera in order to pay the rent will change the temperature of whatever room they’re in together. Permanently.

The film, the latest from writer-director Kevin Smith, pushes its R rating pretty hard, though as with most Smith characters this side of Silent Bob, there’s a lot more raunch in the talk — the sheer, voluminous, often hilarious verbosity — than in the action.

Smith will, unfortunately, be going to hell for the inclusion of one outlandishly grotesque sight gag, one the movie (any movie) would’ve been better off without.

Then again, the filmmaker’s entire career has mined the fun, the possibilities and the risks of going too far.

His is an arrested-adolescent sensibility, like that of many who have come along in his wake, notably Judd Apatow and his various guy-centric associates. But Smith can write and, despite his subject and the free-floating, genial skeeziness, “Zack and Miri” has a bright, chipper look to it, thanks to cinematographer Dave Klein, a frequent Smith colleague. Wintertime in Pittsburgh never looked so good.
When Smith wrote the script with Rogen in mind, Rogen wasn’t yet a movie star. Now, coming off “Knocked Up,” “Superbad” and ” Pineapple Express,” the actor is courting overexposure.

Yet I don’t get some folks’ weariness or resistance regarding Rogen. Like Michael Cera, he’s a master of making it look easy. It takes skill to come off like you’re making it up as you go.

Example: At one point in “Zack and Miri,” the longtime pals attend their 10th annual high school reunion, where Zack runs into an old classmate (rumble-voiced Justin Long).

Within a minute or so, Zack learns that his schoolmate is making a fine living in adult entertainments featuring all-male casts. “What, you mean like ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’?” Rogen asks.

The way he handles the two seconds prior to his next line is so deft, you think, ahhh, timing. You can teach a performer a lot, but the correct pause before a deadpan rejoinder is not one of them.

Banks is currently on screens as Laura Bush in “W.,” and while she makes full dramatic sense in that context, she’s on top of her game here.

Her slightly generic good looks are made interesting by her refusal to coast on them, and while I wouldn’t call the role of cheery, foul-mouthed Miri nuanced, Banks and Rogen click together in a way that Rogen and Katherine Heigl in “Knocked Up” did not.

Why do Zack and Miri make the porno? They need the money, and the recent economic belly-flop makes that seem like a plenty viable reason.

They shoot their hard-core version of “Star Wars” at the Starbucksian coffee shop where Zack works with his colleague Delaney, played by Craig Robinson.

Their makeshift porno cast is a mixture of game amateurs and low-budget professionals, one of whom is played by Traci Lords (whose authenticity doesn’t really add to the fun).

Jason Mewes, a Smith alum from way back, plays Lester, and his nude scene in “Zack and Miri” arrives very late in a slightly attenuated comedy.

Between this and ” Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” I wonder: What is it about seeing a guy’s junk in the final minute or so of a movie that seems ill-considered, somehow?

I’ll try to get back to you on that one.

Socialite heiress Paris Hilton has gone dark with black locks, thick gothic make-up and leather bondage gear for her role as a villain in a horror movie.

Hilton is pictured as villain Amber Sweet in Repo! The Genetic Opera that is based on a stage show of the same name, reports dailymail.co.uk.

Set in 2056, the horror movie is about an epidemic of organ failures that threatens the future of mankind.

The film is due for release in the US Nov 7.

This isn’t the first time that Paris has starred in a horror film.

Her first acting role came in the horror movie House of Wax (2005), in which she played a blonde-haired victim.

In a city smothered in crime and injustice, there can only be one hero to protect Gotham from itself.

Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) is Gotham’s white knight. He is strong and fair - the best defense attorney Gotham has ever had. He also happens to be dating the lovely Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal, replacing Katie Holmes) who is billionaire Bruce Wayne’s ex-girlfriend.

No doubt, Wayne (Christian Bale) is jealous, but he has no time for petty emotions in his line of work. Since becoming Batman, he’s been busy fighting crime and corruption in Gotham.

On the opposite end of the spectrum from Dent, there is a terrible villain lurking the dark streets of Gotham. The mob and the crime lords think him to be a joke. But that’s just it - he’s not a joke, he’s the joke.

Joker (Heath Ledger) is his name and making mayhem is his game. Joker makes bizarre jokes, kills, steals and blows things up. He does this not because he’s crazy but because he wants nothing but pure chaos.

As Batman and Joker face off, it’s the ultimate battle between good and evil. The question is: who will win?

And what of Harvey Dent? Will he become a villain like those he sought to put in jail?

“The Dark Knight” is by far the best DC Comics movie ever made. It is much better than “Batman Begins,” although that was good, too. “The Dark Knight” has everything a comic book movie needs: action, danger, comedy and romance.

The new Batman movie, “The Dark Knight,” raked in $66.4 million (33.2 million pounds) in its opening day to set the single-day box office record, according to its distributor Warner Bros.The Friday tally bests the $59.8 million set by “Spider-Man 3″ at its opening last year.

The film will likely break the opening weekend record of $151.1 million set by the Spider-Man movie, said Dan Fellman, head of distribution at Warner Bros.

“I don’t see any reason why we are going to slow down,” he said.

Fellman attributed the success to the unique vision of director Christopher Nolan and the “outstanding” performance of the late Australian actor Heath Ledger in what turned out to be his last completed screen role, as Batman’s arch nemesis, the Joker.

“The Dark Knight,” which cost about $180 million to produce, also picked up a record $18.5 million in sales of tickets for preview screenings ahead of its official opening.

The five previous Batman movies released by Warner Bros, a unit of Time Warner Inc, had an average opening gross of $47 million.

Those films collectively have amassed over $1.6 billion in ticket sales worldwide since 1989, according to box office tracking service Media By Numbers.

The last Batman movie, 2005’s “Batman Begins,” grossed nearly $49 million its first weekend in North America and went on to collect about $372 million worldwide.