Four Christmases News

ANGELS & DEMONS 2.5 stars $28.96. 139 mins. The pope has died and Professor Robert Langdon is summoned once more to Rome, where he teams up with a physicist to locate four cardinals kidnapped by the Illuminati.

THEY SAY a true movie star is defined by an ability to bring people to mediocre movies, so it's time to declare Vince Vaughn a star.

DVD Tuesday: 'Angels & Demons' & 'Four Christmases' Tom Hanks stars in Angels & Demons Coming out this week, Dan Brown 's Angels & Demons has Tom Hanks solving riddles, all in the name of saving the Vatican from the Illuminati; Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn co-star in the holiday comedy, Four Christmases ; plus a look at Shorts , and Disney's ...

Maybe not all roads lead to Rome this week, but two of the better ones do. For starters, Rome is where Ron Howard and Tom Hanks spent much of 2008, filming their long-awaited sequel to "The DaVinci Code" that now comes to video as "Angels & Demons," . Author Dan Brown has a weird love-hate thing going with the Catholic Church.

Out today is the thriller, "The Road." Based upon the popular book by Cormac McCarthy, Viggo Mortensen stars as a father who, along with his young son, struggles to survive after a strange cataclysm has destroyed the Earth.

HERE'S A LOOK at some of this week's most notable releases. "Angels & Demons" : Praying for another $750 million absolution at the global box office, the fairly unholy trinity of Tom Hanks, director Ron Howard and "The Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown reteam on Brown's earlier novel and manage to be more obscure than a Latin Mass.

Paula Vogel's latest play, A Civil War Christmas, imagines the holiday season at the end of the Civil War in the nation's capital.

Directed by Matteo Garrone off of Roberto Saviano's 2006 nonfiction book of the same name, "Gomorrah" is unlike any other mob movie ever made.

It wouldn't be the holidays without at least one disposable Christmas movie. Last year, that movie was Four Christmases , starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon as a couple who tries to dodge their familial holiday responsibilities in favor of a vacation in Fiji.

Writer-director Judd Apatow might have tested his core audience a little too much with his story of a self-hating comedian who is diagnosed with cancer and asks for help from a fawning young stand-up . But Apatow and company don't spare the dirty jokes either, and there's something admirably uncompromising about their willingness to push for truth ...

Reviewed by: Scott Chitwood Movie Rating: 7.5 out of 10 Extras Rating: N/A out of 10 Movie Details: View here Buy this DVD at Amazon.com Rating: PG-13 Starring: Vince Vaughn as Brad Reese Witherspoon as Kate Robert Duvall as Howard Sissy Spacek as Paula Jon Voight as Creighton Jon Favreau as Denver Mary Steenburgen as Marilyn Dwight Yoakam as ...

Professor Tom Hanks is back on the trail again, racing through Rome against a ticking time bomb to save four kidnapped cardinals and reach a vial of anti-matter that could vaporize the Vatican.

Brad Vince Vaughn Kate Reese Witherspoon Howard Robert Duvall Paula Sissy Spacek Creighton Jon Voight Denver Jon Favreau Marilyn Mary Steenburgen Pastor Phil Dwight Yoakam Dallas Tim McGraw Courtney Kristin Chenoweth New Line Cinema presents a film directed by Seth Gordon.

The Tuohys adopted Oher, who went on to graduate from college and is playing in the National Football League.

These koi fish swimming in one of the several ponds at the meditation garden on the grounds of the Self Realization Fellowship Temple and Retreat in Encinitas look like they're right out of one of Monet's impressionist paintings.

Vaughn's latest comedy is as painful as its premise suggests a drawn out, unfunny and completely predictable festive movie that offers very little in the way of seasonal cheer.

When Cameron Diaz signed on to lend her voice to Princess Fiona in 2001's animated fairy tale "Shrek," she earned a modest six figures for the work.

Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon lead an all-star cast in a comedy brimming with good cheer and great laughsa 'as well as the answer to the question: Can Brad and Katea TMs relationship survive Four Christmases? Buy it on Blu-rayTM, DVD, Digital Download and On Demand 11/24/09! For more information on the Four Christmases DVD, click here .

For those of you who only watch good movies, Reese Witherspoon has been MIA from theaters since 2007.

Tickets go on sale Friday for Tim McGraw, playing live in concert Sunday, March 28 at Credit Union Centre.