There is no love in "From Paris With Love." There is, though, a great deal of noise, and there are some very funny scenes of John Travolta's stunt men running about trying to make him look like a combination of Jackie Chan and the pre-governorship Arnold Schwarz-enegger.
The Rock and today's other stern-faced action guys need not fear for their jobs.

Not all "Dear John" letters are kiss-offs.

“ZOMBIELAND”

Blu-ray widescreen and DVD widescreen, 2009, R for horror violence/gore and language

Best extra: "Beyond the Grave" is a comprehensive Blu-ray exclusive Picture-in-Picture track.

The race for show biz’s fabled gold is off and running.

There’s something comforting about this tradition, now in its 82nd year. The world changes, but the movies are still with us.

The obvious new development as the Oscars were announced Tuesday morning was the increase in best-picture nominations from five films to 10.

 The director and two stars of the Oscar-nominated "Avatar" flew to the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower last week for a visit and a special screening of the movie in the ship's hangar bay.

By DAVID GERMAIN

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. The science-fiction sensation "Avatar" and the war-on-terror thriller "The Hurt Locker" lead the Academy Awards with nine nominations each, including best picture and director for former spouses James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow.

For the first time since 1943 the Oscars feature 10 best-picture contenders instead of the usual five.

If you toss a coin into this fountain of slapstick, you deserve change. In fact, you deserve a full refund. Not content to try for a romantic comedy, the makers of "When in Rome" ambitiously shoot for a romantic fantasy - a more difficult genre to pull off because fantasy, in order to be believed, must be grounded in some kind of reality.

Is it true that bad boys deserve another chance - even if they're movie stars? The question gets put to the test this weekend when Mel Gibson returns to the big screen after a eight-year absence.

There is something refreshing about simplicity when it comes to seeing complex, troublesome world events. In the case of “The Little Traitor,” we are talking about the time shortly before the United Nations voted to allow the creation of Israel in 1947, as seen through the eyes of a child.

Jews and Arabs were living together in the region under the mandate of the British.

His name is Bad. Bad Blake. When we first meet him, he's driving his beat-up station wagon, Bessie, into the parking lot of a seedy bowling alley. He forthrightly tells us he has hemorrhoids (more information than we need). He has a bottle in his hand, but it's not whisky. It's a gallon jug of pee generated on the long drive from one lousy gig to another.