Top Ten Comedies of Summer 2008

Wall-E in Disney's presentation of Pixar's "Wall-E"
Disney/Pixar

Editor's Note: If you want even more summer content look no further than our summer movies page!

With so many summer movies come a slew of comedies. Some will make us bust a gut and some will just bust. I've weighed and measured the contenders and selected the ten I'm most anticipating. I really had 12 but that would have been anarchy. Enjoy!

1.) Wall-E
I read an interview recently in (Ain't It Cool News, actually) where the primary difference between Pixar's work and the other animation houses was perfectly summed up: for the… Continued

Sex And The City Preview Review: Season Three

Kristin Davis in HBO's 'Sex and the City'
HBO

Editor's Note: Missed a Sex and the City season? Catch up with season one here and season two here.

"I'm getting married this year!" Charlotte York yelled to Manhattan from the deck of the Staten Island Ferry in the third season premiere of Sex and the City. It didn't matter that she wasn't even dating anyone at the moment. Charlotte had decided to get married. The rest of the details, like the husband, would surely fall into place. And thus kicked off the show's best (and most marriage-obsessed) season yet.

Charlotte… Continued

The Best of the Summer Merchandise: Dark Knight, Indy Jones, Sex and the City, Iron Man, and More!

Sarah Jessica Parker in New Line Cinema's 'Sex and the City'
New Line Cinema

These days, there are movies and there are movies -- blockbusters, tent poles, whatever you want to call them, films that come with collector cups and product tie-ins, cereal boxes and bobbleheads and Happy Meals. They're market events, not just moving pictures up on a screen.

Not that this is new; the old singin' cowboy Roy Rogers had sheets and Daisy rifles when George Lucas was just an Ewok twinkling in his father's eye. And even… Continued

The Best Movie You've Never Heard Of: Mongol

Tadanobu Asano in Picturehouse's 'Mongol'
Picturehouse

What if I told you that one of the greatest historical epics ever made will be released this summer and won't break any box-office records? It won't be talked about on all the morning shows or spawn memes or YouTube parodies. It might not even crack into the top 5. No, it's a Russian-made film, one of their most ambitious yet -- three-part trilogy on the history of one of the greatest conquerors to ever live. Genghis Khan. Now before you click away, mumbling a little ho-hum, let me tell you this. I've seen part one, titled MContinued