Love, passion, betrayal and lies take place in 'The Room'

River Oaks Theatre

2009 W. Gray,landmarktheatres.com

THE ROOM: An electrifying American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies, starring writer/director Tommy Wiseau. Midnight Friday

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW: Strange things have always happened in this small Transylvanian castle. Midnight Saturday

Rice Cinema

6100 Main, film.rice.edu

A THOUSAND AND ONE JOURNEYS: THE ARAB AMERICANS: The film vividly paints a portrait of the Arab-American immigrant experience through the stories of people who immigrated in pursuit of the American Dream, including Sen. George Mitchell, Jamie Farr, Gen. John Abizaid, Anthony Shadid and Helen Thomas. 7 p.m. Friday

THE TREE OF LIFE: Director Terrence Malick puts a colossal history of time in lyrical dialogue with private family strife, the spaces of human life and personal discovery in this film that was shot in Texas. 7 p.m. Saturday

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

1001 Bissonnet; mfah.org

CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT: Unavailable for decades, this film is the culmination of director Orson Welles' lifelong obsession with Shakespeare's rapscallion Sir John Falstaff. Appearing in several plays, Falstaff is a robustly funny and ultimately tragic antihero, played by Welles with towering, lumbering grace. 7 p.m. Thursday

DON'T BLINK - ROBERT FRANK: This feature-length documentary is by Laura Israel, Frank's trusted editor and collaborator. Culling from years of conversations, Israel brilliantly creates a portrait of the life of the Swiss-born man who reinvented himself the American way and is still standing on ground of his own making at the age of 90. 7 p.m. Friday

Houston Museum of Natural Science

5555 Hermann Park; hmns.org

SECRET OCEAN: Jean-Michel Cousteau and marine biologist Holly Lohuis take viewers on a breathtaking underwater journey. Filmed in the Bahamas, Fiji and Bimini.

DINOSAURS ALIVE: 3-D adventure follows paleontologists around the world as they uncover evidence that the descendants of dinosaurs still walk (or fly) among us. Multiple screenings daily.

NATIONAL PARKS ADVENTURE: Join world-class mountaineer Conrad Anker, adventure photographer Max Lowe and artist Rachel Pohl as they bike, hike and climb their way across America's most pristine parks.

Discovery Green

1500 McKinney, discoverygreen.com

INSIDE OUT: Emotions run wild in the mind of a little girl who is uprooted from her peaceful life in the Midwest and forced to move to San Francisco in this Pixar adventure. 8:30 p.m. Saturday