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The Green Hornet — Seth Rogen slims down to play a newspaper-owning playboy who becomes masked vigilante, with Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou as his

South Park: Season 14 – While other long-running animated satires such as The Simpsons have long been in decline, South Park rolls along with every bit as much

The King’s Speech – The best picture Oscar winner gets a deserved royal treatment on Blu-ray, with a making-of documentary, archival footage of the true story

Country Strong – Gwyneth Paltrow re-introduces herself as a cowgirl crooner in this music-heavy melodrama, which can be described as a low-rent Walk the Line.

Tangled – You have to hand it to Disney for attempting to compete against DreamWorks and Pixar in the realm of computer animation, even though the studio

One of the ways Call of Duty is superior to life is its respawn feature. When you die, you’re just right back at it a few seconds later. A little wiser and more

Black Swan – Darren Aronofsky’s shattering ballet drama combines high art and cheesy exploitation into an overpowering dynamo. Natalie Portman turns in a

How Do You Know — After a lengthy layoff, Reese Witherspoon jumps back into the romantic comedy game as a pro softball player forced into retirement who takes

The Fighter – Mark Wahlberg stars in this Rocky-like true story as struggling boxer Micky Ward, who battles through nonstop adversity to reach a title shot.

Morning Glory – Rachel McAdams plays a stressed-out network TV morning show producer who tries to make her dysfunctional program work. Her crusty, disgruntled

You wouldn’t know it because your life is unimportant and you lack tiger blood and Adonis DNA, but a gang of business suit-wearing agents with magic fedoras

Bambi Diamond Edition Blu-ray – The 1942 classic trots onto Blu-ray, continuing Disney’s excellent track record of creating stunning versions of its animated

There’s this new documentary out, called Drive Angry 3D. No doubt recorded with a system of hidden cameras, surveillance film and superbly drawn animation by

Due Date – Director Todd Phillips (The Hangover) spins another wildly funny sophomoric tale, this one a rip-off of Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Robert Downey

Unstoppable – Denzel Washington and Chris Pine star as a pair of mismatched train operators who find themselves who race to save a small town from a runaway

Being a fan of Adam Sandler movies is a lot like being a fan of the Baltimore Orioles. They let you down every year without fail, yet you retain your fandom and

Life as We Know It – Romantic comedy machine Katherine Heigl juggles relationships with Josh Duhamel and Josh Lucas in this head-scratchingly bizarre tale.

Let Me In – A superb remake of Let the Right One in features rising star Chloe Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) as a sullen, withdrawn young vampire who develops a

I don’t have much solid proof, but I’m pretty sure Jason Statham is Batman. No, not the Batman in the movies, but a genuine Batman who has yet to be discovered

Red – Bruce Willis reignites his career by actually making an effort for once, playing a retired CIA agent who is forced back into the spy games fold to save

Buried – Ryan Reynolds pulls off an impressive one-man show as an American contractor stuck in an undisclosed location in the Middle East, buried alive in a

Dear Fat Seth Rogen, I miss you. Your slimmer, clean-shaven doppelganger just isn’t the same. Sure, he’s still got the John Goodmanlike growl as the version of

The Social Network – The prohibitive favorite to take home the best picture Oscar is an endlessly rewatchable keepsake on home video. Director David Fincher’s

The American – George Clooney continues to prove he can do it all, effortlessly slipping into the role of a secret agent assassin who does this and that while

The Coen Brothers are so good at Westerns that anyone else who wants permission to make one should have to get their written permission. Their characters don’t

Salt – Angelina Jolie smolders as a sleeper secret double agent who becomes a pawn in a game of one-upsmanship between the Americans and Russians. Jolie proves

How do you know when you’re watching a bad romantic comedy? When the male lead has to resort to tumbling down the stairs during a phone call to get a laugh,

Inception – Just about every film by director Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Dark Knight) is an unqualified masterpiece, and Inception is no different – one of

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse – It took three tries, but someone has finally managed to crank out a decent Twilight flick. Director David Slade does away with many

Deep inside every great artist, there is a lesbian ballerina stalker who wants to drug you and take your job. To attain greatness, you’ve got to stab her in the

Deadwood: The Complete Series Blu-ray – David Milch’s gritty, hilariously foul-mouthed masterwork shimmers in HD. Like a famous gunslinger in the Old West, the

Burlesque writer/director Steve Antin was watching the movie Showgirls one night and thought, “Man, this is a great flick, but it would even better if I added

The Kids Are All Right – Lisa Cholodenko’s heartstring-tugging Oscar contender rounds up a strong cast for a tale of a lesbian couple’s (Annette Bening,

Californication: Season 3 – Each season of this David Duchovny-led sex romp is better than the last, making this the most enjoyable season yet. Duchovny plays a

The Pacific – HBO’s stunning 10-part World War II miniseries recaptures the grisly majesty of Band of Brothers, following a regiment through a series of bloody,

Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy Bl-ray – It’s tough to find an example of more exuberant, imagination-expanding filmmaking than this stunning

If you’ve ever brought together two good friends from different spheres of your life together, only to be stunned at how bored and tedious things got when you

How to Train Your Dragon – My 3-year-old’s favorite movie soars to a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, which breathes potent special-features fire in the form of

The Exorcist Extended Director’s Cut Blu-ray – The 1973 horror icon seemingly gets a rerelease every other year or so, but no previous edition can touch this

Life as We Know It isn’t so much a movie as it is a social experiment. It proves, through extensive mixture of film formulas, that you can make two people who

Beauty and the Beast Blu-ray – Disney is taking its sweet time releasing its animated masterpieces on Blu-ray, but at least it’s giving the films the elaborate

If The Social Network is to be believed, Mark Zuckerberg is a truly remarkable individual. Not because he invented Facebook – or at least managed to swindle

Iron Man 2 – Many moviegoers seemed to have viewed the sequel as a letdown, but I appreciated its quieter, nuanced approach to the iron-suited superhero played

Shot on location inside the part of Zack Snyder’s brain that’s addled by owl opium, The Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole certainly has its share of

Robin Hood: The Director’s Cut – Russell Crowe stars as the title hero in this Ridley Scott-directed opus, which bothered some audiences because it neglects the

The Office: Season 6 – Kathy Bates adds some Southern-fried charm to one of TV’s funniest series, playing the boss of a corporation that absorbs the paper

Justin Long’s character in Going the Distance is a Mac and Drew Barrymore’s is a PC. He lives in New York, she’s a NorCal girl. He takes two steps forward and

Lost: The Complete Collection – Jammed to the gills with extras, including more than 30 hours of bonus material and a number of physical mementos from the show

Oh, to be Nanny McPhee. To travel early-20th century England, using your magical powers to torture bratty kids into behaving at will. To be able to command your

Cougar Town: Season 1 – Courteney Cox proves that the 2010s are the new 1990s. She’s the life of the party as an uproarious single mother in her 40s, a female