Best Bets / March 28 - April 4

Movies

Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss, above, star in “The Matrix,” a futuristic cyber-thriller set in a universe run by computers where people are merely fuel sources of bio-electric energy. The film, produced by Joel Silver and directed by brothers Andy and Larry Wachowski, opens Wednesday in general release.

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Elodie Bouchez and Natacha Regnier shared the best actress award at last year’s Cannes Film Festival for their roles as two radically different young women in Erick Zonca’s French-language coming-of-age film “The Dreamlife of Angels.” The film, which is rated NC-17, opens Friday at selected theaters.

Pop Music

Detractors predicted a short shelf-life for Sheryl Crow, above right, when she hit with “Tuesday Night Music Club” in 1995, but with a new best rock album Grammy for “The Globe Sessions” to add to her previous five, the singer is having the last laugh. She plays Friday through next Sunday with Eagle-Eye Cherry at the Pantages Theatre.

Music

Including four brand-new computer-animated vignettes and no live action, Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s revised digital opera “Monsters of Grace 4.0,” at right, returns to Royce Hall at UCLA, Tuesday, one year after its original, incomplete premiere in the same venue. The newest version is fully animated, with Glass’ 73-minute score again performed by the live Philip Glass Ensemble.

Theater

Set during the ‘30s Harlem Renaissance, Pearl Cleage’s “Blues for an Alabama Sky” chronicles the struggles and hopes of a singer, a gay costume designer, a social worker, a progressive doctor and a transplant from Alabama. Opens Saturday at the Old Globe’s Cassius Carter Centre Stage in San Diego.

Art

Deceptively simple handcrafted weavings, wall-hangings, stained-glass panels and other works by Santa Monica-based sculptor Jim Isermann will be displayed in “Fifteen,” a major survey of his work opening Thursday at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Jazz

At Catalina’s this Monday, a tribute to Horace Tapscott features Arthur Blythe, Vinny Golia, Michael Session, Bobby Bradford, Roberto Miranda, Gerald Wiggins, Dwight Trible and many others, honoring the recently deceased and legendary pianist-bandleader who made an impact on many people’s lives.

Video

Anyone who ever wore diapers will probably get a kick out of “The Rugrats Movie.” The box-office animated hit comedy is based on the long-running Nickelodeon series. It arrives in video stores Tuesday.