Mamma Mia! ** Mediocre reviews weren't enough to keep audiences away from this big-screen adaptation of the stage sensation, loosely based on the ABBA songbook and set on a Greek island. Meryl Streep headlines as a laid-back innkeeper whose daughter (Amanda Seyfried) invites three men to her upcoming nuptials, hoping to discover which one is her father. ...more

December 18, 2008

OK, dancing queens, put on the white spandex and sing your heart out in the safety of your own home. "Mamma Mia!" hits DVD shelves today. You can also expand your Academy Award knowledge with an Oscar history book and share the madness with the newest CD from Fall Out Boy. ...more

December 16, 2008

It's a total goof, of course. A lark, a one-off. "Burn After Reading," the latest offering in the eclectic filmography of Joel and Ethan Coen, is not to be taken seriously - one look at Brad Pitt's blond-streaked pouf of hair tells you that - and it's certainly not to be compared to their starkly violent Academy Award winner from last year, "No Country for Old Men." ...more

September 12, 2008

GOSSIP GIRL: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON Josh Schwarz of "The O.C." fame turns his attentions to the attractive, privileged youth of the East Coast in this CW series, an adaptation of the popular novels that immediately launched the careers of young stars Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford and Penn Badgley. Parents were scandalized by the heady brew of sex, drugs and money. ...more

August 22, 2008