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DVD Review: Margot at the Wedding (Blogcritics.org) - A feel bad family comedy. Noah Baumbach's characters have always been slightly maladjusted, but they never felt unreal. Margot at the Wedding changes that. In his latest film, he transplants characters from a Todd Solondz film into a movie that is too dramatic, tonally, when compared to its characters. One of those characters is Margot (Nicole Kidman), a writer from...

DVD Review: Margot At The Wedding (Blogcritics.org) - An adult character study of family dynamics and relationships. Writer/director Noah Baumbach seems to enjoy exploring the dark underbelly of family dynamics and relationships. Baumbach wrote the 2005 film The Squid and the Whale, in which the father (Jeff Daniels) of an intellectual, if slightly eccentric, Brooklyn family claims to have been a great novelist but has settled into a teaching job. ...

After Their Wedding, The Spending Hit Home (Washington Post) - Age: George is 52; Kim is 43.

Music DVD Review - Iron Maiden: Live After Death (Blogcritics.org) - Concert footage, backstage action, and retrospective musings from the spandexed metal masters. Iron Maiden: Live After Death is five hours of Maiden madness, from 1980s show footage, to candid tour bus antics, to present-day interviews with the band and crew. The main concert footage represents a four-day stint at Long Beach Arena in Los Angeles, part of the World Slavery Tour. The shows were ...

People week in review (Contra Costa Times) - This week our celebrities are all about words. The wrong words. Wrong words that get you in trouble. One of our celebrities is possibly too young to know you just don't dis royalty, but the other one .

Photoshop Elements 6: A Good Friend for iPhoto to Have (TechNewsWorld.com) - The arrival last month of Adobe's Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac, list price $90, poses a question: Why would a Mac user want this software, particularly since Apple's $80 iLife offers its own photo program, iPhoto? There are several potential answers. There are people, including those who have switched from PCs to the Mac platform, who would find Photoshop Elements more comfortable.

'Wedding Singer': A love song to Gen-X (Memphis Commercial Appeal) - If a school kid ever needed to write a paper on what defined pop culture of the 1980s, he or she would only need to watch "The Wedding Singer" and take notes.

The Face of My Life: My Unsentimental Timex (Washington Post) - For someone who has trouble being on time, my attachment to my watch is a bit curious. It's not an expensive timepiece or treasured heirloom. It doesn't evoke visions of a romantic gift-giver or a special birthday. It bears no diamond encrustations, automatic movement or Cartier cachet. The...

Fisher bares her soul with humor (Contra Costa Times) - Carrie Fisher has a gift for laughing at herself. In her solo show "Wishful Drinking" she invites us to crash her own, personal celebrity roast as she crosses over to the dark side to give us the dish on: being a Hollywood legacy (the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher); her wedding to

Oscar contenders took a while to emerge (Stuff) - One evening last November, a handful of journalists and industry insiders eased into the plush armchairs of a Hollywood screening room to watch The Golden Compass, the Nicole Kidman fantasy based on the first novel in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.