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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. ...

CAROLYN HAX (Washington Post) - Adapted from a recent online discussion: Dear Carolyn: I was married a month ago. Before we got married, we had some serious issues with his mother. She made it very clear she didn't like me and refused to support our wedding. He was convinced she would come around, and she made an attempt as the...

Stocks: The Knot will recover (Crain's New York Business) - The wedding business is relatively recession-proof, and this company's revenues are rising steeply.

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 ...

New DVD releases include 'Michael Clayton' (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) - "Michael Clayton" is a provocative thriller that clenches the viewer's attention for almost two hours.

Slick Picks Chick Flicks (Stuttgart Daily Leader) - Earlier this week, while I was searching for my favorite DVD movie “Mars Attacks”, I stumbled upon my wife and daughter’s hidden stash of chick flicks. I noticed that all the movie cases were empty. As I remember it, all of these movies met with some kind of horrible freak accident.

Out and About: Feb. 15-21 (The Morning News) - The Thing to Do "Play Ball!" A Bentonville baseball team, circa 1912, is among the images on show in "Play Ball!" The new exhibit about the history of baseball in Northwest Arkansas is on show through July 26 at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale. "Baseball's popularity found its way to Northwest Arkansas before the end of the 1800s," says Allyn Lord, museum director. "A new era ...

11:26 a.m. FOP decides it will not pay for Geoff Jones to appeal dismissal (The Joplin Globe) - Gilbert said the FOP has reviewed the city’s case and also heard from Jones and concluded it would not pay for the appeal to the personnel board if Jones went through with that.