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New on DVD: Oscar nominees 'Les Misérables,' 'Lincoln' hit stores

Mar 21

Two Oscar nominees for this year's Best Picture hit stores this week.

"Les Misérables," Grade B+: This big-screen version of the musical based on Victor Hugo's book stars Hugh Jackman. Read more →

For Leslie Mann, 'This is 40' a family affair

Mar 21

For "This is 40," available on DVD today, actress Leslie Mann spent a lot of time with her family. The film was written and directed by her husband, Judd Apatow, and it features the couple's real daughters.

"It was fun being around my family," Mann says. She laughs and adds, "We did learn that it's not fun every day and we need breaks from each other." Read more →

Movie review: Halle Berry in 'The Call'

Mar 14

If the celluloid service for "The Call" had run out after 60 minutes, the new film from director Brad Anderson would have been an edge-of-your seat thriller about a 911 operator's valiant efforts to save a kidnapped young girl.

Sadly, "The Call" continues, and the last third of the movie is where it turns into a complete wrong number. Read more →

Movie review: Steve Carell, Jim Carrey in 'The Incredible Burt Wonderstone'

Mar 14

Comedy -- like magic -- has to be performed quickly, cleanly and with enough intelligence that it makes the improbable entertaining. Fail to do this, and the comedic illusions lead to disillusions.

"The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" fails on all three counts. There are a few funny moments in this story of a Las Vegas magician who loses his magical touch, but the pacing is too slow, the performances too uneven and the writing too juvenile to make this a bewitching comedy. Read more →

New on DVD: 'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Rust and Bone'

Mar 14

This week's new DVDs include an Oscar-nominated effort, a film with performances that should have been nominated and a new release that sounds as if it was up for an Oscar.

"Zero Dark Thirty," Grade B-: Most of the efforts to track down and kill Osama bin Laden remain classified information. The only details readily made public have been about his death at the hands of Navy SEALs in 2011, which ended one of the greatest manhunts in history. Read more →

New on DVD: Oscar nominees 'Les Misérables,' 'Lincoln' hit stores

Mar 21

Two Oscar nominees for this year's Best Picture hit stores this week.

"Les Misérables," Grade B+: This big-screen version of the musical based on Victor Hugo's book stars Hugh Jackman. Read more →

For Leslie Mann, 'This is 40' a family affair

Mar 21

"It was fun being around my family," Mann says. She laughs and adds, "We did learn that it's not fun every day and we need breaks from each other." Read more →

TV briefs: David Letterman book

Mar 19

A real man of letters: David Letterman is the subject of a new comic book about his life: "FAME: David Letterman." The book, released March 13, is written by CW Cooke and art by Noumier Tawilah.

"Letterman's story is a pretty amazing one, and yes we do address the late-night wars in this comic book, I think they were an important part of television history," publisher Darren G. Davis said. Read more →

Former Olympic diver guides celebs on reality show 'Splash'

Mar 18

PASADENA -- The 10 celebrities looking to belly-flop their way to a win on the new ABC reality competition show "Splash" bring little or no diving experience to the pool.

They won't have to take a long walk off a 10-meter stand on their own. They get to pick the brain of one of the most notable divers in American swim history: multiple Olympic medal winner Greg Louganis is their mentor. Read more →

'Bates Motel' explores how Norman became 'Psycho'

Mar 18

PASADENA -- In the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock horror film "Psycho," it was made clear how things turned out for cinema's best-known mama's boy. What the new A&E series "The Bates Motel" wants to do is provide some insight into just what would make a loving son keep his mummified mom sitting around the house while he killed motel guests.

"The Bates Motel," from producers Kerry Ehrin and Carlton Cuse, stars Vera Farmiga ("Up In the Air") as Norma Bates and Freddie Highmore ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") as the 17-year-old Norman Bates. Read more →

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TV Beat: KMJ's ag expert cultivates radio skills

KMJ (AM 580) program director Skip Essick is facing an entirely different situation with his new agriculture reporter, Don York, than he faced with previous ag guy, Sean Michael Lisle. Read more →

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