Only eight days left, and it will be here: Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze's visionary, big-budget adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book. Now, we really don't know what to expect -- we love the book, and we love Jonze's previous films Adaptation and Being John Malkovich, but can you really make a full-length movie out of 20 pages of illustrations, a barely-there story and the voice of Tony Soprano? We certainly hope so, since the commercials practically have us in tears already, but we're keeping our hearts locked up just in case -- after all, this wouldn't be the first time they were broken by a lame film adaptation of a favorite childhood read. Check out our guide to the Best and Worst Children's Book Adaptations and see which ones made us Mr. Happy, and which were simply terrible, horrible no-good, very bad movies.

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How do we know that Couples Retreat is going to be good? Two words. Actually, four words. Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau. Okay, that was five words. But still, those two are hilarious by themselves, and they're even more funny when they're together. Yes, Jason Bateman and Faizon Love and Kristen Bell and Jean Reno are all funny, too, but those two are like comedy peanut butter and hilarity jelly. Of course, if it was just one of them in the movie, we wouldn't be so excited, because while the two of them are great together, when left to their own devices they tend to make bad decisions. Also, their personality types balance each other out. Who wants a sandwich that's just jelly? Or just peanut butter. Nobody, that's who. Well, sometimes you do, but it's rare. Check out our guide to their best team-ups and worst solo projects, with a few good solitary ones sprinkled in. And let us know if we're off-base below.

The question isn't "What DVDs are you going to buy?" The question is, "What DVDs aren't you going to buy?" We have a few suggestions.

Another movie about the end of the world from the makers of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow? This time based on the Mayan calendar, which predicts said event will happen in three years' time? We call bullshit. Our resident movie vloggers, Omar and Pablo Gallaga, have asked their family members -- all of whom are descended from Mayans -- and none of them seem to know anything about this. See what the brothers have to say about Roland Emmerich's fear-mongering, John Cusack's taste in scripts and the repeated destruction of the White House in the latest installment of Trailers Without Pity, embedded below for your safety.

When you go see a Coen Brothers film, you know what you're going to get, inasmuch you can always expect at least a few of their recurring themes to rear their heads. A man constantly burdened by setback after setback. An unfaithful woman. Shady financial dealings. The bullying of the weak by the strong. Murder. With each successive movie incorporating some or all of these elements, you have to wonder what happened in the Coens' lives to continually draw them back to these staples... aside from the fact that they're the stuff of great movies, of course. You also have to wonder why the Coens hate their own characters so much, that they would heap such troubles upon them until they break. All of the above tropes (even murder, kind of) are present in A Serious Man, which is about a Jewish family living in the Midwest in the 1960s, and was actually filmed in locations near where Joel and Ethan Coen grew up. While not autobiographical, it does draw heavily from their childhood and upbringing, so it's as much of an insight into the team's origins as we're likely to get.

Zombieland is a fast-paced, funny action flick that will have you on the edge of your seat and possibly doubled over with laughter. In under 90 minutes, it manages to completely satisfy and entertain and leave you with some lasting images you probably aren't likely to forget anytime soon. Not to mention it features Bill Murray in one of the best cameos (he's playing a version of himself) since Neil Patrick Harris dropped in to Harold and Kumar's car. The cast is at the top of their game, Woody Harrelson in particular is fantastic, the script is tight and entertaining and the film's director (Ruben Fleischer) did a great job with pacing and with giving the film a different and distinct look.