U.S. and Iraqi Army forces captured a "high-value" suspect and killed about 30 insurgents who damaged a tank during an arrest operation, the U.S. military said.

Today’s LAT details the budgetary problems affecting Bruce Almighty sequel Evan Almighty, which threaten to saddle the movie with the unwanted distinction of becoming the most expensive comedy in…

The latest episode in a nutshell

Merrick again…


Here’s Itchyballs (a condition I had all weekend) with a look at DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE. He says the film is a “guilty pleasure”.

In his e-mails to me, Itchyballs, who has reviewed for AICN before, swears he’s not a “plant” – but is instead a movie lover who sometimes becomes overzealous when championing a title. Is that the case this time around? We’ll see…

DOA looks a little too Bollian for my tastes. There’s schlock, shameless, exploitative crap (the kind Vern relishes…I like it, too!) – and then there’s…well…charmless insipidness, which is what this FEELS like to me. Maybe this is because we’ve been so roundly pummeled by video game-to-screen adaptations that it’s hard to find any hope. Or, maybe this will simply blow like all the others.

Contrary to some reports, Internet Explorer 7 will probably not roll out automatically to Windows users in tomorrow’s Patch Tuesday update; it will come out some time after Thursday according to indications from the IE 7 team blog. One way or the other now seems like a good time to give it a […]

Reuters - ABC won Sunday night in
both key measures, with “Desperate Housewives” leading the pack
and “Brothers & Sisters” settling in as one of the season’s new
hit shows.

Reuters - Nielsen Media Research said
Monday that its people meters would begin to count college
students who live away from home.

Reuters - G4, a Comcast-owned
cable channel specializing in video games, Monday announced its
first original reality series, “The Block,” which is set in the
hotel chain of the same name that caters to snowboarders.

Game Releases for the Week of 10/8-10/14

Hey everybody, Dan here with this week’s gaming releases! As the weather turns nippily, publishers are beginning to gear up for the big holiday releases. But before we get there are weeks like this, filled with one or two standouts, but overall a bunch of crap (don’t miss the GBA crud being shoveled out this week at the bottom of this article). Next week looks far better though, with the next installment of Sam Fisher’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent as well as the next-gen version of Tiger Woods.

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10/11 Avatar: The Last Airbender - Based on an apparently very popular Nickelodeon animated series which I have never heard of, THQ is launching versions of the video game conversion on pretty much every console this week (one for Nintendo’s Wii is also planned for that systems launch). Pretty much all the versions look the same; the game appears to be your standard top-down actioner, with bad graphics and your standard top-down gameplay.. collect items, take on enemies, rinse, repeat. Anyway, all I know is this THQ license for Nickelodeon cartoons lasts through 2010, so expect a game based on every single Nick series.

DX came out for their match against Cade & Murdoch, but first went into a bit where they played off of the fact that the University of South Carolina mascot is a cock, based on thier Gamecocks nickname, and the fact that Hunter calls himself The Game. They did a bunch of puns on cocks, such as Hunter saying, “All we were doing was trying to give the cock some exposure.” He said, “It’s frustrating because first he was in, then he was out, in, out, in, out”…

Reuters - TBS has given a
cast-contingent pilot order to a workplace comedy from former
“Will & Grace” star Eric McCormack’s production company.

If this past Saturday you happened to pass a crowd of merciless, lumbering dead with the brains of their recently consumed victims still smeared across their faces, you were either driving along the…