Become a digitalPLUS subscriber. $12 for 12 weeks.  'The Host':
Alien neighbors drop in, and time seems to stop ★  "The Host" is
for people who couldn't handle the whirlwind pace of events in
the "Twilight" trilogy and who prefer a love triangle unafraid
to redefine, for a new generation, the word "lollygag."  It
features several shots of Diane Kruger (as a capital-S Seeker
alien, middle-managing the takeover of Earth) standing around in
the desert, next to her shiny alien sports car of the near
future, waiting around for a stray human to show up and make her
day. The film may as well be titled "Stephenie Meyer's Waiting
Around."  When not idling above ground, "The Host" confines
itself to an underground series of caves that look like
soundstage sets (and not enough of them). There's a river, too,
resembling one of those lazy rivers at a Wisconsin Dells water
park. William Hurt, who portrays the bearded patriarch Uncle
Jeb, confides to his fellow survivors and wheat farmers in
hiding: "I always liked science-