Angelina Jolie

5 days ago - Brittany Murphy's family says words can't express the devastation they felt as they laid the 32-year-old actress to rest at a private Christmas Eve funeral.

8 days ago - Was it only a decade ago that a blackberry was a mere summer fruit? That green was, well, a color, and reality TV was that one show sandwiched between music videos on MTV?

14 days ago - Little Falcon Heene of "Balloon Boy" fame surely had no idea he was encapsulating an entire year of popular culture when he told his parents on national TV: "You guys said that we did this for the show."

15 days ago - The hunt for Tiger Woods is on, or at least the first photographs of the golf superstar since his late-night car crash and damaging news of his marital problems.

19 days ago - The A-list dinner party drew top performers and singing legends.

29 days ago - Michael Jackson's stunning death made him the Internet's biggest star this year.

29 days ago - Michael Jackson's stunning death made him Yahoo's biggest star this year.

572 days ago - “Kung Fu Panda” panders to the kid audience. Their elder chaperones may not flip for it, but they can still get a kick out of the playful martial artistry and meticulous, computer-generated animation of this conventionally plotted yet occasionally worthwhile family film.

600 days ago - Time magazine has published another one of those silly and meaningless lists some in the media occasionally and irritatingly compile to validate their self-importance. It is the 100 “most influential people in the world.” I didn’t make it, but then I don’t make other lists like People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive,” which must be an oversight.

673 days ago - At first, Charlotte Evans would starve herself or throw up after the occasional meal.

676 days ago - Forget about anything you have ever read or seen before that has the label “Beowulf.” This modern, animated version is by far the best of the dozens of films based on the classic poem. Using the movements and facial expressions of Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, Robin Wright Penn, then supplemented by CGI, the creative animation is among the best ever seen on film — so life-like, it almost makes you wonder why the movie wasn’t done live action. There are great extras on the DVD’s single disc. The best is an awesomely detailed 23-minute featurette showing the actors working in the virtual reality studio that converted their movements and facial features into digital for the animation. We also see how the stunts worked, the ins and outs of the food scenes and how horses were incorporated. Also, another interesting featurette has a short on how the monsters evolved from the original sketches, while another quickie is focused on the origins of “Beowulf” — from the poem to the tweaks made to this incarnation and everything in between. There’s information about the art direction and a handful of unfinished deleted scenes. It’s a nice set of extras that go along with an entertaining, brilliantly animated film. Price: $29.98 to $39.98. Buy or Rent: Buy.

678 days ago - Many details of Carrie Fisher’s life already have been exposed, but not as gleefully as in “Wishful Drinking.”