If Bryan Singer's Valkyrie depicts the true story of an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler, then Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is its irreverent brother.

A lot of the early reviews have criticized the latest film for being the same collection of bad acting and non-existent characterizations.

The Final Destination and Halloween II battled for box office supremacy this weekend, but only one could emerge on top.

Back at the Top Chef penthouse, we're still in that awkward "who are you and should I even bother getting to know you or will you be packing your knives in a few days time?" stage.

Oh how the waters have calmed now that Jessie, Chima and Lydia have exited the premises.

Despite being a full two months prior to Halloween, we get a violent, fright-filled weekend at the box office, as two openers go after the same horror market this weekend.

Horror Movie Thunderdome has a clear winner on Friday.

The June bow of Showtime's Nurse Jackie turned into the pay cabler's most successful premiere ever, with more than one million viewers tuning in. Almost immediately, Showtime picked up the show, about a ER nurse who struggles to balance her pain meds addiction and multiple lover situation, for another season. How well do you know Nurse Jackie?

Like two 17- year- olds showing up to the prom wearing the same dress, this weekend's slate of films features two movies that really should have talked to each other ahead of time..

What is it about Quentin Tarantino? He is one of the most recognizable directing brands in all of Hollywood, yet you barely need two hands to count the films he's made.

This week: Superhero news, Miss Universe news, sex tape news, and naked gardening news. Plus: Beware the Most Dangerous Celebrity! The all-seeing eye of This Is So Last Week gathers together all the week's pop culture news and condenses it into a pleasing quiz format. We hope you were paying attention.

Watching both ABT and ABTII back to back recently proved two things to me: First, that there is a lot to be gained, from an emotional standpoint, from seeing both in close proximity.

The Station Agent is a low budget film from first time writer/director Tom McCarthy, which has a dwarf as the lead character. It's a miracle it was made at all.

It's funny to consider that, for all the clamoring people do for sequels to popular movies, those follow-ups are usually disappointing, if not completely terrible.

By the time the new millennium dawned, it seemed every way you could possibly find to make a slasher film seem shiny and new had been explored. After Jason and Michael Myers got the genre started, the films became formulaic with frightening speed. But the people behind Final Destination burnished the sub-genre by making their killer Death itself, as relentless as any Jason and twice as inventive. You may know the slasher-flick don’ts, but how well do you know Final Destination?

It's an overloaded week for comics. Get your wallet ready.

This week: Michael C. Hall toys with Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart gets cute with Jennifer Aniston and Michael Cera goes French.

One of the fascinating aspects of film is to compare two movies that are analogous in tone or genre, but not equivalent in their entertainment value.

I finally had a chance to see the famous lost 13th episode of Dollhouse the other day. I know that, of Joss Whedon's creations, Dollhouse is the one that fans haven't really embraced.

2002 gave us what is arguably the most unexpected box office performance of the entire decade.

His films have earned more than $8.5 billion. Time Magazine named him the most influential man of his generation. Technically innovative and creatively ambitious, perhaps no director has changed the course of film to the degree that Steven Spielberg has. You may know A.I. from E.T., but how well do you know Steven Spielberg?

Inglourious Basterds takes the weekend.

District 9 is full of dazzling and promising ideas, but the filmmakers only allow them to partially break through an otherwise action-movie exterior.

This week: Kristen Stewart dates humans again, Scrubs says farewell to loyal viewers (only to welcome itself back) and Amy Adams cleans up blood.

From the passing of Kitty to the lift that Provenza got from having a girlfriend, The Closer's fifth season proved as gripping and entertaining as usual. These episodes didn't focus as much on the interrogation room, but rather gave Brenda Leigh's Major Crimes Division a greater range of policework. You may know all too well what it's like to be inadvertently drugged by your niece, but how well do you know The Closer: Season 5?

The historical epic was brought back into fashion in 1995 by Braveheart, which despite moments of unintentional hilarity, scored five Academy awards including Best Picture and Best Director, influenced the Scottish nationalism movement and gave early warning of Gibson’s torture fetish and martyr complex. Alba gu bra and How Well Do You Know... Braveheart?

From the obscure to the obscurest to the merely overlooked or underappreciated; they all have a home in the TiVoPlex!

Though the 1945 British film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp wasn't the very first film to shoot in Technicolor, it is a notable progression in cinema history.

No more Masters, no more critics...like going back to high school at the end of August, we are comfortably back at home with the aspiring Top Chef contestants and our beloved judges, Tom, Gail and Padma.

Bolt is fast, Favre is back, a hoops star is high, and Calipari is corrupt. Need a way to feel good about yourself? Ace our sports week in review quiz, and we guarantee your self esteem will soar by 35%.

On Thursday's live eviction episode, host Julie Chen commented that week 6 has "been one of the craziest weeks in Big Brother history."

Like the crack of a baseball bat finding the sweet spot, the box office was electrified this weekend as Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds opened strongly.

The third season of Showtime's Dexter has the serial killer butting heads with the fantastic Jimmy Smits, who nails his role as Miami's ADA. At the same time, Dexter must prepare for, of all things, a wedding with Rita. The season may very well be the series' best, but how well do you know it?

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds gives him his best opening day of box office ever, earning $14.4 million.

Watching Season 1 of Top Chef Masters is a bit like volunteering at a kids camp for two weeks during the summer.

Pulp Fiction is, to date, Quentin Tarantino's only $100 million film.

Jaws is the granddaddy of the blockbuster, and one of the most significant movies in history from a box office perspective.

It's a rare end-of-summer treat, as one...no, wait, two of genre filmmaking's masters return to the big screen this weekend.

A slow week in pop culture news was salvaged by a trio of bikini items and a bizarre reality show crime story. Also: which actor's bank account is nearly $20 million lighter this week? Find out in our weekly pop culture quiz.

If there's a perfect word to describe A Perfect Getaway, it is amateurish.

With a no-name director and star, D9 scored $37 million in its opening frame to enter itself in the break-out hit of the summer contest, just when The Hangover was starting to cork champagne.

Supernatural tales of the unpredictable and the unexplained can chill us to our bones, and have been staples of the science fiction and horror genres throughout cinema's history.

Even though he's only made six films (including the new World War II epic Inglourious Basterds), Quentin Tarantino has made a major dent on popular culture as we know it today.

It’s been almost 30 years, but the classic comedy Airplane! still remains one of the funniest and most influential American spoofs ever made. Was today the wrong day for you to quit amphetamines or will you be able to stay off the drugs? Surely you can be serious and focus...and not call anyone around you Shirley. How well do you know Airplane?

There's not much with regard to Blackest Night, but the comics world still has plenty to offer on new release day.

Ponyo is a children's film with a message and a heart, deploring our society's disregard for the environment.

There are almost as many differences as there are similarities between Gremlins 2: The New Batch and Gremlins.

This week: Rupert Everett goes girl, Milla Jovovich gets abducted by aliens and one special granny does some insane stunts.

His films have earned more than $8.5 billion (unadjusted). Time Magazine named him the most influential man of his generation. Technically innovative and creatively ambitious, perhaps no director has changed the course of film to the degree that Steven Spielberg has. You may know A.I. from E.T., but how well do you know Steven Spielberg?

Bottle Shock is a wry and amusing look at California wine culture in the early '70s.

A few years back, Chicago-based writer Audrey Niffenegger wrote a science fiction book that was published and marketed as non-genre fiction. It was her first novel and it became a best-seller.

This week: Dexter pals around with Jimmy Smits, The Simpsons turns 12 and Wes Craven remakes himself.

Fast zombies? Hell yeah! Zack Snyder's update of the cinematic undead added velocity to the brain-munchers, and in so doing touched off one of the great debates in film history. You may be pretty sure that there's still a twitcher or two left in the sporting goods store, but how well do you know Dawn of the Dead?

Errol Flynn made his name in Hollywood in swashbuckling roles, beginning with this film, in which he was cast as the romantic lead because the original actor, Robert Donat, was unable to play the part.

From the obscure to the obscurest to the merely overlooked or underappreciated; they all have a home in the TiVoPlex!

The bloody smiley faces started to surface in 2008. For decades, the ironic image was a symbol known only to those well versed in the world of graphic novels.

If G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra had taken any smidgen of itself seriously, it might have been unbearable.

A little movie known as District 9 opened this weekend, and crowds flocked to it to see its secrets revealed.

This week: a golf shocker, a Cyborg victorious, an extortion scandal and a case of censorship. Plus: the exquisitely painful ballad of Adrian Beltre. All this and more in our sports week in review quiz.

Over the past 15 years, the period from the middle of August until Labor Day has become a dumping ground for Hollywood's less favored film projects.

Sunday's nomination episode had the HouseGuests splitting in two for a chance to watch The Goods before the rest of America.

Sci-fi flick District 9 opened to a solid $14.2 million on Friday.

Jay and Mark Duplass followed up their cult-hit The Puffy Chair with Baghead, a thriller-comedy (thromedy?) about a group of four friends who spend the weekend in a cabin to craft an idea for a movie -- only to find themselves trapped in a deadly scenario. The flick played well on the festival circuit, and was eventually picked up by Sony Pictures Classics. How well do you know it?

This week on Top Chef Masters Recap: Shorty get lo, lo, lo, lo, lo...

Prepare the torches and pitchforks. Star Wars is the topic this week.

It's the shotgun approach to the movies this weekend as no fewer than five new movies hit wide release, along with a couple of high-profile limited release films.

This week: teens made their choice, a rapper got sentenced, the Beatles crossed a milestone, a funny lady got married and there were three cases of baby news. We hope you were paying attention.

David Twohy's sunny summer thriller, A Perfect Getaway, wants to be a horror/mystery in the vein of The Sixth Sense.

In July: slim pickings, Bigelow goes to war, and Vardalos' long goodbye.

A-List looks at documentaries and mockumentaries.

Set in 1960s New York, Mad Men focuses on the team behind the hugely successful ad agency, Sterling Cooper -- both their professional and personal affairs. Airing on AMC, the series is in bed with the people that matter, having won the Emmy and Golden Globe for Best Drama in its freshman frame. How well do you know it?

Sure, you might be into Blackest Night, but there's other stuff, too.

This week: Renee Zellweger goes back in time, Kate Beckinsale puts on snow pants and Alec Baldwin battles Steve Martin.

Sofia Coppola, daughter of legendary director Francis Ford Coppola, didn't really wish to pursue an acting career, which might explain The Godfather: Part III.

The number one film of 1992, with over 500 million dollars in worldwide box-office, was Aladdin. At the time, it was the biggest gross ever for an animated film. You may have seen it in theaters, or you may not have been born yet, but how well do you know Aladdin?

This week: Paul Rudd and Jason Segel hug it out, Matthew Perry gets significantly hotter and kids say the darndest things (in French).

I broke the cardinal rule last night. I drunk dialed my ex.

Up until 2007, the children of the '80s were a criminally under-serviced box office demographic.

Uma Thurman's pledge to Kill Bill was finally fulfilled in April 2004, bringing along with it a monumental piece of genre filmmaking and a movie that's even better than Volume 1. Now that the Bride's wrapped up her unfinished business, how well do you know Kill Bill: Volume 2?

Judd Apatow is a storyteller who firmly sticks to the old adage, "Write about what you know."

The biggest craze in Hollywood over the last few years has been to adapt comic books into hopeful mega-profit franchises.

It was a boring week in the Big Brother house.

G.I. Joe shocks the world, baby! Despite some pretty rotten reviews, it manages a solid opening weekend.

Every year, dozens of films claim to have a breakout star.

Surprising coaching news, varying degrees of stupidity and the tumultuous Boston sports scene. Plus: the sporting world gets a little poorer, while many, many players get quite a bit richer. Here comes another edition of our sports week in review quiz.

The answer to the trivia question may have to wait another week

Audience manipulation is something movie studios do in such a sublime way that no one usually notices.

Sunshine Cleaning is a surprisingly sweet dramedy about... crime scene cleanup. Even with a delightful cast (Emily Blunt, Steve Zahn and Alan Arkin) and a fantastic lead performance by Amy Adams, the movie quietly exited theaters after a limited March release. How well do you know it?

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra opens to an explosive $22.3 million on Friday. Unscreened for critics, this was going to be pretty bulletproof anyway, at least on opening night.

What stands out with Laura, produced and directed by Otto Preminger, is that it's relatively bereft of big-name stars, or at least people who we consider big-name stars from the 1940s, or from film noir in general.

I think if we've learned anything this week, it's that you ought to see The Cove if you have the opportunity.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a bit of a sneaky film.

August reaffirms its status as a dumping ground for action films with this weekend's big tentpole, as Hollywood ruins yet another piece of our childhood. Welcome to the suck.

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This week: A singer supposedly says something stupid and another one actually says something stupid, one Heroes star has an incidental brush with the law and another one has a brush with the altar, a reality baby is born and an Oscar-pedigreed baby is on the way, and a pair of game shows are returning. Oh yeah, someone quit American Idol. We hope you were paying attention.

Prior to 1996, the Coen Brothers were a writing and directing duo that courted critics' favor, but whose films remained relegated to the art house circuit.

After 15 Academy Award nominations and two wins, you might think that an actress as prolific as Meryl Streep would slow down for a few years.

The first 15 minutes of Temple of Doom and the opening musical number in particular are some of Spielberg's finest work.

1965's The Sound of Music, based on the Rodgers and Hammerstein play of the same name, is a critical and fan favorite over 40 years after its release. The movie earned approximately $158 million; adjusted for inflation, it is third on the list of all-time box office hits. Not only does it frequent numerous AFI lists, it was also selected for the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 2001. In addition, the Sound of Music sing-alongs remain incredibly popular with loyal fans. How well do you know The Sound of Music?

What's new in the world of comics this week? Some pretty darned good stuff, actually.

Little did I know that one film contains all the answers to the mysteries of where the future will take us.

This week: The Coen boys are back, Wes Anderson outsmarts some farmers and Sandra Bullock goes blonde.

When I got the chance join a handful of other critics at a round table interview with the men behind The Cove, director Louie Psihoyos and producer Fisher Stevens, I saw it as a wonderfully unique opportunity.

At the heart of the show is a love story between a sensitive vampire and a girl with a superpower. It takes place in Louisiana, and revels in languid violence and sexuality.

Courtney Love did not star in Driving Miss Daisy. That wasn't Lindsay Lohan winning an Oscar for Million Dollar Baby. Instead of focusing on which movies they were in, let's see if you can identify the picture in which they didn't appear. We'll give you four titles, and you need to select the film that's not on the actress's resume.

(500) Days of Summer makes it clear from the beginning: "This is a story of boy meets girl, but it is not a love story."

This week: Beyonce puts up her dukes, Bobby Boucher gets crisper and Delgo is released on DVD (OMFG finally!!!).

In He Said/She Said, we have some legitimate disagreement from our reviewers on the quality of this film. You know you want to read it.

Part 1 of Quentin Tarantino's deliriously entertaining action saga was released in 2003, almost immediately redefining the genre, ingraining itself in pop culture, and establishing Uma Thurman as a Goddess among men. But how well do you remember it?

From the obscure to the obscurest to the merely overlooked or underappreciated; they all have a home in the TiVoPlex!

Ronnie beat the odds this week by sidestepping his inevitable eviction – and even avoiding a mere Chopping Block nomination.

Funny People proves that people won't just see Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen in anything.

It's not hard to see why a documentary featuring dolphins is hitting theaters.

Judd Apatow's Funny People hit movie screens with a thud this weekend, leaving Universal with its fifth consecutive under-performer this summer.

The previous six episodes have proven that the remaining finalists are the chefs most adept at bending their years of experience.

Major League Baseball hits its trade deadline, while yet more players are announced to have positive PED tests from the past. Also, Brett Favre! Michael Vick! Tiger Woods! And other guys you never, ever hear about! How well do you know the last seven days in sports?

The Judd Apatow directed film starring Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen earned $8.6 million on Friday.