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On the menu for this week's DVD releases? Comedy, comedy, and more comedy. Check out the titles below and start planning your next movie night! Date Night In this action romantic comedy, Tina Fey and Steve Carell play a bored married couple who get caught in a mix-up and end up on the run from a couple of thugs in New York City. The two stars are as perfect together as you'd think, and I was Read more
Despite its lack of superheroes and weapons, Dreamworks's How to Train Your Dragon managed to regain the top spot at the box office with $20 million. It's been a few weeks since it came in at number one, but it looks like the family fave was a bigger draw than my pick, Kick-Ass, which came in closely behind it at No. 2, earning $19.8 million. Last week's winner, Date Night, came in third with Read more
We have a definite premiere date for the fifth season of Lost! The craziness begins again on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009. — Variety Chris Rock is set to star and co-write a re-imagining of the 2007 British comedy Death at a Funeral. — Variety Fox has ordered a full season of The Cleveland Show to premiere in Fall 2009. — Zap2it Coldplay has been named the world's biggest band of 2008. — 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. In addition to the titles below, 30 Days of Night is available if you have the need to get the bejesus scared out of you, and you can finally catch the emotional Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale on Read more
February is a big month here in entertainment-land, with both the Grammy Awards and the Oscars on the docket and this weekend's Super Bowl unleashing a new crop of commercials (not to mention a new Paula Abdul song) on the world. But I have my eye on plenty of other things, too. Want to see what I've got to have (and do, and see, and rent) this month? Just hit "Start." Read more
If teen comedy Superbad isn't your cup of tea, but you're still looking for a movie that will make you laugh this weekend, Death at a Funeral might be worth a try. Directed by Frank Oz, the movie centers on a dysfunctional English family whose supposedly staid and classy funeral for the patriarch of the clan is interrupted by one disaster after another, ranging from the delivery of the wrong body Read more
8:00 Spider-Man 3 8:00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (repeat) 9:00 Criminal Minds (repeat) 10:00 48 Hours Mystery (new) 11:30 Saturday Night Live (new, season finale, with guests Mick Jagger, Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, and Jeff Beck) 7:00 Major League Baseball 8:00 Harry's Law (repeat) 9:00 The Firm (new) 10:00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (repeat) More TV to watch when you Read more
The Vampire Diaries is back from its hiatus, and while we get a little fun flashback time with turn-of-the-century Damon and Stefan, this episode is a little boring for my taste (I think it's because Klaus is absent). That is, until we get to the end of the episode and get a shock that I didn't see coming at all. We also get a sweet confession from Elena, but all the excitement is really about Read more
After last week's epic kiss, this week's episode of The Vampire Diaries is almost a little disappointing, except that so many other crazy non-Elena/Damon things happen. It's Caroline's birthday, but it's not all cake and tequila shots with her friends, and Stefan tries his hardest to be a baddie but just ends up looking like a jerk. On the Damon and Elena front, she's still feeling bad for Read more
Brad Pitt joined his Moneyball costar Jonah Hill in LA last night for a special screening of their film. It was a rare domestic viewing for Brad, who in recent weeks has taken the movie around the world, from the Tokyo International Film Festival to a short South Korean tour. Brad and Angelina are currently on the West Coast with their six kids, and he took the oldest four out for a special Read more
