“Mama’s Boy” (H) plays like a “Mr. Woodcock” retread. Jon Heder stars as a 29-year-old boy still living at home with his mother. When Mom decides to have a private life of her own, Sonny Boy feels threatened. A different cast might have made this more of a comedy. As it is, it’s just silly. PG-13

“The Mist” (HHH) is a Stephen King story like we used to see. A small town goes berserk when flesh-eating monsters appear in a fog, forcing the community to crowd themselves into a grocery store to hide. It’s ghoulish, suspenseful and very well acted. It’s also a good date movie. R

“Romance and Cigarettes” (HH1/2) is weird but entertaining, thanks to its showmanship. It’s part-musical, part-romantic comedy and part-middle aged restlessness. In other words, it’s like life itself stretched to its imaginative limits. James Gandolfini is married to Susan Sarandon but playing footsie with Kate Winslet. Why? She cusses more colorfully than Saran-don, and every four-letter word in the book is included in her vocabulary. R