Eddie Murphy is out and Marlon Wayans is in for the Richard Pryor biopic — Cinematical Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to The Phantom of the Opera gets a premiere date! — Playbill 5 TV shows that deserve the big-screen treatment — TV.com Modest Mouse has a brand new video, and it's trippy — Stereogum The Good Wife and NCIS: Los Angeles get picked up for full seasons — HitFix Check out Read more

Tuesdays are big in entertainmentville: not only do all the new DVD releases hit Netflix, but new music also pours into stores. So I take a spin through each week's music releases and pick out some albums and tracks worthy of a download. Modest, Modest Mouse: Indie darlings Modest Mouse have been around since 1993, but made their mainstream break in 2004 with the success of the song "Float On" Read more

The text at the end of this video reads: "This began with our friend, a great defender of life, and was completed in his spirit." And though the video for Modest Mouse's "King Rat" seems cutesy at first, it soon becomes clear why the words "defender of life" are included in this note about the video's director, the late Heath Ledger. The animated video starts out seemingly sweet and innocent, Read more

Tuesdays are big in entertainmentville: not only do all the new DVD releases hit Netflix, but new music also pours into stores. So I take a spin through each week's music releases and pick out some albums and tracks worthy of a download. Pop idol: Jordin Sparks, American Idol's sixth winner, is back today with her second album, and it sounds like a solid collection of the pop/R&B tunes we've Read more