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Tom Hanks plays adventurous symbologist Robert Langdon in "Angels and Demons". Photo from Columbia Pictures This Thanksgiving promises to be cold and gloomy, so it seems like the perfect time to gather the family around the television and watch a movie.

Tom Hanks and Ayelet Zurer track down a murderous zealot in Ron Howard's 'Angels & Demons.' Courtesy Columbia Pictures Rarely before has wordy exposition been employed more excessively and to lesser effect than in Angels & Demons , Ron Howard's middling follow-up to The Da Vinci Code.

This week's DVD releases cover a lot of territory. They include a family film from the director of 'Spy Kids,' a holiday comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, an Adam Sandler feature helmed by writer-director Judd Apatow and a big-budget thriller starring Tom Hanks.

Professor Robert Langdon returns to interpret dark signs and obscure symbols in Ron Howard's latest adaptation of a Dan Brown conspiracy tale.

Going Rogue a go-go ... fans wait to have their books signed at the Woodland Mall in Kentwood, Michigan on 18 November.

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 ...

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.

The Da Vinci Code was a hugely successful book and movie, so it was pretty much inevitable that author Dan Brown's prequel, Angels & Demons , would find its way to the screen.

Hanks returns as symbologist Robert Langdon in this exciting sequel to "The Da Vinci Code." He must decipher ancient clues to find an anti-matter bomb before it blows up the Vatican.

Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon is back on a thrilling journey through Rome trying to find four Cardinals kidnapped by the Illuminati, an ancient secret brotherhood that will stop at nothing to destroy its eternal enemy, the Catholic Church.

PLOT 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.

Dan Brown has been selling books like hotcakes for a few years now, so it comes as no surprise that Hollywood has swooped in to cash in on the author's recent successes.

Langdon Tom Hanks Camerlengo Ewan McGregor Vittoria Ayelet Zurer Richter Stellan Skarsgard Olivetti Pierfrancesco Favino Assassin Nikolaj Lie Kaas Cardinal Strauss Armin Mueller-Stahl Columbia Pictures presents a film directed by Ron Howard .

Home / Articles / Movies & TV / DVD Reviews / Angels & Demons, Funny People, Robodoc, Terrorist Next Door, Witches Hammer By Bill Frost Angels & Demons Tom Hanks loses the mullet just in time to save the Catholic Church from another imaginary force, the Illuminati.

Thanks to Twitter, came across these two interviews with Umberto Eco that I would probably otherwise have missed.

How might a kid - OK, a teenager - protect himself from that dreaded fate described in legions of sci-fi movies , the anal probe? If you weren't thinking "champagne cork," you were way off according to the sci-fi kids cartoon "Planet 51." A genial but generic riff on sci-fi movie history, "Planet" has barely enough slapstick to keep the kids ...

Dan Brown book to be discussed "The Hunt for the Lost Symbol," a documentary that explores how much of Dan Brown's new novel "The Lost Symbol" is truth and how much is fiction, will be screened at the University of Nebraska at Omaha on Thursday evening, and its director and editor will lead a discussion about the film.

A Hollywood rule of thumb always seems to be that tossing everything but the kitchen sink into the mix, will be guaranteed to please everyone.

The director of a Discovery Channel documentary exploring Dan Brown's latest book, "The Lost Symbol," will speak at the University of Nebraska at Omaha about creating the program.

Freemason Dick Curtis tours the group's National Heritage Museum in Lexington. Freemasons have frequently sparked conspiracy theories and drawn the ire of groups ranging from religious organizations to the Nazis.