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Elvis and Michael had better watch out. Jimi is making a move.

Forty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix is enjoying the kind of resurgence in the posthumous-rock-star derby that might rival the sales of Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.

Young readers will enjoy this baker's dozen of new picture books:

From the sublime "Breaking Bad" to the ridiculous "Kirstie Alley's Big Life," choosing what to watch Sunday nights at 10 EDT won't be a difficult call for most viewers.

It's challenging, smart TV versus yet another fluffy celebreality show. You choose.

"Big Life," premiering Sunday with back-to-back half-hour episodes, follows Alley as she tries to lose weight. Again.

No other television show makes as judicious use of silence as "Breaking Bad."

These quiet moments -- of brown, baked New Mexico vistas or characters in repose, shot from a distance -- could be pretentious, but in "Breaking Bad" (10 p.m. EDT Sunday, AMC) they are portentous, adding to the program's innate, nerve-shattering tension.

Do you have to be 1) a believer in vampires, 2) a believer in werewolves and 3) a teenage girl to enjoy "The Twilight Saga: New Moon"?

Is it a requirement in crime fiction that everybody is kind of unlikable?

That's the situation in Vertigo Crime's latest graphic novel, "The Executor" ($19.99). Virtually every character is tainted in some way, and it's only because some characters are so vile that some others emerge as more or less sympathetic.

On paper, FX's "Justified" might seem a little ho-hum: Soft-spoken but deadly U.S. marshal with baggage -- most recently a "justified" shooting of a murderer in Miami -- returns to work in his Kentucky hometown.

"KOKUHAKU," Chatmonchy (SIN/Sony)

Sony Music Independent Network is releasing to America the first three full-length albums from Japan's all-woman Chatmonchy and sending the trio to make its U.S. debut March 19 at the SXSW Music Conference in Austin, Texas.

New on DVD:

"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire"

Rating (four possible): 4

That montage of horror clips shown at the Academy Awards ceremony last Sunday might have included yet another monster: the mother from hell played by deserving Oscar-winner Mo'Nique (Best Supporting Actress).

A guide to movies from a family perspective:

"Remember Me"

-- Rated: PG-13.

-- Suitable for: Mature high-school students and older.

-- What you should know: Robert Pattinson from "Twilight" is a lost 21-year-old New Yorker who starts to date a woman on a dare but falls in love. Both of them, however, live in the shadow of family tragedies.