Depending on how you feel about security guards, Lyme disease, Matthew McConaughey, claymation, Avatar and the French, this is either a very good week for DVDs or the worst week ever.

Tags: I Want My DVD, Jennifer Garner, Matthew McConaughey, Seth Rogen, Wallace & Gromit

As someone who likes Matthew McConaughey as an actor but despises cheesy romantic comedies, I was thrilled to see him making another legal drama, his first since 1997. Not a Kate Hudson in sight! Of course, there aren't any surprises in sight, either, as this is possibly the least twisty, most straightforward legal thriller ever made. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, if all you want are the basics: a lawyer with a crisis of conscience, a client with a dark secret, and William H. Macy with a mustache. Hmm. Macy had a beard when he was in Sahara with McConaughey, and now the mustache. Does McConaughey have a "co-stars must have facial hair" clause in his contract?

Tags: Matthew McConaughey, review, Ryan Phillippe, The Lincoln Lawyer, William H. Macy

Effing haaaaa!!!!!!!!!!! Finally, someone's seen fit to end the reign of terror that Elizabeth Gilbert's psycho-babble best-seller Eat, Pray, Love has wrought. Think, if you will, of the distinctly female quest for peace and sanity after a heart-rending breakup Gilbert explores in her tome, and then imagine its opposite: a cuckolded dude licking his wounds by going on an international sex and booze bender, only to come out the other side changed in no way whatsoever (ok that last part was just my own assumption based on previous dealings with dudes). That pretty much sums up the parody Drink, Play, F@#K, a comedy based on the forthcoming satire of the same name by writer Andrew Gottlieb (whose credits include work on the soon-to-air IFC series Z Rock). I sooooo see McConaughey or, like Seann William Scott in the starring role, don't you?

Incidentally, the big-screen version of EPL is being developed and rumor has it Julia Roberts is attached. In spite of my pesky X chromosomes, that's one movie you couldn't pay my ass to see. Well, alright you could pay me. But it'd have to be a lot. Like at least fifty bucks and a sixer of Zima. I know, I drive a hard bargain.

Tags: Drink, Eat, Elizabeth Gilbert, F@#k, Julia Roberts, Love, Matthew McConaughey, Play, Pray, Seann William Scott

Comic book movie casting news changes faster than Clark Kent in a phone booth. Just a few days ago, Michael Caine (better known as Alfred to some, and as Alfie to others) was telling MTV News that he'd heard it from a Warner Bros. executive that the studio wanted Johnny Depp as the Riddler and Philip Seymour Hoffman as the Penguin. It seemed all but confirmed that Hoffman would waddle onto the big screen as the Bat's next nemesis. When asked about it the next day, though, Hoffman himself denied the long-standing rumor, saying: "No one has talked to me about it, ever -- never." He added that he's "such a fan of those [comic book] movies," but explained that he'd rather watch them than be in them.

Tags: Captain America, Dark Knight, Edward Norton, Fool's Gold, Hulk, Incredible Hulk, Johnny Depp, Marvel, Matthew McConaughey, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Surfer Dude

Wasn't Lionsgate supposed to be revamping their image to be more Universal Pictures and less Dimension Films? Isn't that why they risked a visit from the Cenobites by mutilating the release of Clive Barker's Midnight Meat Train? If so, then Lionsgate has a warped idea of what constitutes classy movies. They are currently in the process of dropping $100 million on a remake of Ah-nuld's gory 1982 showdown with a Darth Vader voice, Conan the Barbarian. The John Milius and Sandahl Bergman epic, written by Ollie Stone, was originally rewritten by the folks who did Sahara. That script was tossed, presumably because nobody would believe Matthew McConaughey was barbaric. At least not the way Conan is.

Tags: Andy Serkis, Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Conan the Barbarian, Grace Jones, Lionsgate, Matthew McConaughey, Sahara, Wilt Chamberlin