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REVIEW: Wedding satire is just so much mocking about (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) - Twenty years after "This is Spinal Tap," the mockumentary format seems easy to emulate but hard to master.

How bridal shows can save you money on your wedding (Market Watch) - NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Tying the knot does not come cheap. A wedding in the U.S. will cost an average $26,800 this year, according to estimates from The Wedding Report, a market-research organization. And with a dizzying array of choices to make --photographers, venues, caterers, florists, DJs -- planning a wedding can clobber both your sanity and your wallet.

Movie review: 'Confetti' proves to be enjoyable fluff (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - While it doesn't attain the dizzying hilarity of Christopher Guest's mockumentaries "A Mighty Wind" or "Best in Show," there's an affectionate tone to "Confetti" that makes it a serviceable time-waster. The British import is a cinéma vérité-style satire of England's wedding industry, following three couples in a contest sponsored by the nation's leading bridal magazine. The pair that mounts the

In theaters (The Times of Northwest Indiana) - ALL THE KING'S MEN (Rated PG-13) Full review, D1. Grade C- FLYBOYS (Rated PG-13) Full review, D3. Grade B-

SCATTERSHOTGUN WEDDING (Lexington Herald-Leader) - It's not stupid. The performers give it their all (in at least two cases, their altogether, too). It doesn't get too cutesy like so many British comedies. And heaven knows, the subject is worthy of satire.

DVD Review: Sin By Murder (Blogcritics.org) - On the evening of their tenth wedding anniversary, lawyer Michael Barnes’ (Tim Ross) wife, Michelle (Rachelle Williams) is brutally murdered in the shower. Detectives Jack Burns (Mark Baranowski) and Amy Cobb (Ryli Morgan) think it’s a matter of open and shut with Michael as the main suspect in the slaying. Especially since he left his wife to go bed his mistress, Sharon Sloane (Jyllyan Dixon).

Movie Review: 'Confetti' (San Antonio Express News) - Ever since Rob Reiner's gloriously silly mock documentary "This Is Spinal Tap" profiled a fictional rock group in 1984, the genre has blossomed.

Janet Street-Porter tells Lynn Barber that she has no intention of mellowing with age (Guardian Unlimited) - As she turns 60, Janet Street-Porter tells Lynn Barber that she has no intention of mellowing with age.

Movie review: 'The Groomsmen' (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - Edward Burns knows that an intimate knowledge of the old neighborhood can't be acquired from a crash course in local customs; you have to have grown up there. In this comedy, his latest of several trips back to an Irish-American enclave on the outskirts of New York City, he paints a scathing portrait of raucous high school buddies clutching at their rock 'n' roll glory days as they push 35. The

Dumbing Up (New York Times) - The ?Dummies? books follow strict rules: no passive voice, no future tense and a laugh track of sitcom-ish humor.