FitSugar wants to know: What are your thoughts on these billboards promoting Forgetting Sarah Marshall? Popwatch asks about the shows you meant to watch, but never got to see before they were yanked (like the recently canned Jezebel James). Speaking of which, TV Filter wonders: What killed Jezebel James — the time slot, the concept, something else? Vulture has the — good? bad? baffling? — Read more

While on the topic of Children of Men, which comes out on DVD today, I thought I'd pay homage to an actor I love: Chiwetel Ejiofor, who plays Luke. Though his character is technically a bad guy, Ejiofor's speech toward the end — delivered between rounds of bullets he aimlessly sprays out a window — makes me soften toward Luke, thinking maybe he's just trying to survive like everyone else. Read more

All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. This week brings us an exciting list of big titles, many of which got Oscar attention this year. In addition to these recommendations, check out Heath Ledger in the gritty drama Candy, as well as the Read more

Nominated for an Academy Award for cinematography Children of Men features some of my favorite things: Clive Owen, Sci-Fi and awesome gadgets. The movie takes place in 2027, as humankind faces extinction and a government agent agrees to help transport and protect a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary of scientists. My Buzzsugar spy tells me that in this scene a tech wiz teenager is zoned Read more

Every week up until the Oscars, I'll be featuring the nominees in the various visual categories, starting this week with cinematography. Yesterday, I had a gallery of stills from Pan's Labyrinth, and today's nominee is Children of Men. In this movie, director Alfonso Cuaron strove to capture a grim futuristic world in which the continuation of the human race is threatened. The filmmakers were Read more

Yesterday Children of Men received a number of Oscar nominations, including Achievements in Cinematography and Film Editing, both of which I think are fully deserved. Director Alfonso Cuaron has been lauded for the complicated, highly-choreographed scenes in the film that were shot without interruption — particularly a battle scene in which Clive Owen and four others are riding in a car and an Read more

Children of Men is a well-formed, visceral experience of a depressing futuristic world. As a work of science fiction, the film is impressive, because the genre often gives filmmakers license to create storylines and characters that are far-fetched to the point of eye-rolling ridiculousness. The creators of Children of Men, however, seem to understand that to make an engrossing film about Read more

Children of Men is getting rave reviews from critics, but it's not getting much love from its studio, Universal, which initially released the movie in just 16 theaters on Christmas Day. Now, one devoted fan has made a video promoting the movie, interspersing footage of the film with quotes from critics set to a soundtrack from Jarvis Cocker. I'm already dying to see this movie, but the video Read more

I am deeply intrigued by the trailer for this new movie Children of Men, which stars Clive Owen and Julianne Moore. I'm not usually the biggest science-fiction fan, but the premise is interesting: In a not-too-distant future (20 years from now), women are infertile and the human race looks doomed... until one miraculously pregnant woman is discovered. Disillusioned government agent Theodore Read more