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On DVD: Catching Up With the Kuchars

Beginning with an apt, hand-drawn homage to the credits of Tim Burton’s Ed Wood , Jennifer Kroot’s documentary It Came from Kuchar launches you into a movie-movie realm you might not have had a chance to experience before: the eccentric, dimestore film universe of the Brothers Kuchar.

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What’s On: One Dayton at a Time

Like you, I’m psyched for Betty White’s return to the small screen on Hot in Cleveland , a sitcom about three cosmopolitan women who move to Ohio and live with an elderly caretaker, but I’m just as torqued for the two of the other primetime veterans in this TVL and Series: Valerie Bertinelli and Wendie Malick. The former kept One Day at a Time vivacious for its nine-year run, and the latter gave Just Shoot Me some brassy edge. Tonight’s programming also includes the return of a beloved Bravo series and So You Think You Can Dance ‘s competitive weeks.

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J.Lo & Matt’s ‘Wedding Planner’ Reunion

Filed under: Jennifer Lopez , Matthew McConaughey , Reunion , Movies Nearly a decade after teaming up on their 2001 hit ” The Wedding Planner ” ( left ), Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey joined forces again at an event in NYC last night ( right ). The on-screen duo are both 40 and definitely don’t look like an old… Read more

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Screenwriter Teases PG-13, Vampire-Babyless Breaking Dawn

Beyond the recruitment of Bill Condon to direct it in two easy installments, the only thing the casual moviegoer really needs to know about The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn is that its source novel features some, er, significant childbirth complications by young mother Bella Swan. The franchise’s fans, who’ve pumped the franchise into the billion-dollar monolith it is, wanted the scene — plus the vampire sex that begets it — preserved from the start, PG-13 be damned. Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg would officially like to start deflating those hopes. [Mild spoilers follow.]

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7 Lessons Learned from Toy Story 3

Photo via Neuro Software If you thought the Toy Story movies were about overcoming differences to become friends, then you missed some of the more subtle lessons: That stocking your kid’s toy room can be an exercise in sustainable, eco-friendly choices that the junior set won’t even notice. Follow these tips, inspired by the trailer for Toy Story 3 (which comes out in theaters this Friday) to choose toys that will keep your kids happy and healthy to infinity and … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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First Image of The Smurfs Shows Smurfs

What is it with USA Today getting all this first glimpses lately? On Tuesday, it was the ridiculous Hugh Jackman robot boxing movie Real Steel and now here comes the equally ridiculous big screen adaptation of The Smurfs . Hey, remember when everyone in Hollywood said audiences wanted originality and not reboots of popular ’80s brand names? Just kidding! After the jump, check out your first look at The Smurfs (shouldn’t this be subtitled “Take Manhattan”?) and find out why all the purists will be flaming message boards with hatred over a change in the Smurf mythology.

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Did Al Gore Have a Two-Year Affair With Larry David’s Ex-Wife?

Say whaaaaaaaat? According to new reports, a third person contributed to the dissolution of Al and Tipper Gore’s marriage…and that person is Larry David’s ex-wife. Laurie David divorced the Curb Your Enthusiasm creator in 2007 amid rumors that she was stepping out with the caretaker of their Martha’s Vineyard summer home, but now she’s been linked to Gore in a way that goes beyond co-producing his Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth .

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Marisa Tomei: ‘A Lot of People are Scared of Actors!’

In the new comedy Cyrus , Jonah Hill and John C. Reilly may have the showiest roles, but Marisa Tomei has the trickiest. While Hill (as her son) and Reilly (as her suitor) spar for her affections, Tomei has to make her Molly attractive but attainable, naive but not stupid, and loving but fundamentally misguided. Those are a whole lot of contradictions to play for any actor, but as Tomei explains it, it was all part of the process of working with directors Jay and Mark Duplass. The pair encourage the actors to make not just the characters but the dialogue and blocking their own, and Academy Award winner Tomei had plenty of ideas on how to do exactly that. The actress talked to Movieline this week about some of the challenges inherent in that process, how she reconceived the character counter to what the Duplasses had originally intended, and how Hollywood has a problem with allowing women be funny.

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True Blood’s Ratings Don’t Suck

True Blood came back to HBO with its biggest season premiere yet , although its 5.1 million viewer tally — up 38% from last year’s opener — isn’t the show’s highest-rated episode ever. Still, if True Blood can continue its unlikely trend of growing from episode to episode, as it did last season, this is a great place to start. How soon until they add some (literal) bloodsuckers to Tilda ? [ EW ]

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EXCLUSIVE: Nicolas Winding Refn Explains His Wonder Woman Movie

Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn created something of a fanboy stir last month when he dropped hints about wanting to adapt Wonder Woman for the screen. Some thought Refn was joking; after all, his best known films ( The Pusher Trilogy , Bronson ) are foreign-made indies rendered with unflinching brutality and pitch-black humor. But Refn — one of the more thoughtful, articulate, visionary and prolific filmmakers working today at any level, like Werner Herzog with a bludgeon — wasn’t kidding at all. Hell, if Sam Raimi can do it, why can’t he?

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