If you need a little break from award season's serious dramas, then today's new DVD releases should do the trick. There are three comedies in the mix here — one romantic, one screwball, and indie — so take your pick! Life As We Know It Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel star opposite each other as Holly and Messer, acquaintances who are thrown together when they have to raise the baby their Read more

In It's Kind of a Funny Story, Emma Roberts plays Noelle, a teen in psychiatric care. It seems like heavy stuff, but the young actress will tell you that the film is funnier than it sounds (of course, having Zach Galifianakis as your costar helps!). I recently spoke to Roberts about her dark comedy, along with her much-hyped upcoming project Scream 4. Even though she's the franchise's newest Read more

Whether you like your comedies romantic or dark, you're bound to get at least a few laughs at the theater this weekend with new releases Life as We Know It and It's Kind of a Funny Story. To find out if you should put your money on Katherine Heigl or Zach Galifianakis, just watch! Read more

The Hangover put Zach Galifiankis on the map, thanks to his oddball character and hilarious one-liners, but It's Kind of a Funny Story lets him break out of that stereotype to show us something we haven't really witnessed before: his serious side. Galifianakis stars as Bobby, a patient at a hospital's psychiatric ward who heads up a group of mental misfits. Bobby is the floor's unofficial host Read more

When the trailer for It's Kind of a Funny Story landed, I was taken in by more than just Zach Galifianakis as a mental patient. The song that comes in for the second half of the clip grabbed me: the first lyrics of "find a cure, find a cure . . ." dovetails with the indie comedy's hospital setting. By the time the more impassioned breakdown of the song breaks into "Ohhh my God," we've hit the Read more