
Oct 22 - By Courtney Hazlett, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
The fall television season is only a little more than a month old, but the breakout hits are becoming painfully obvious. And with sweeps just around the corner, shouldn’t you know what those shows are? Or at least some of them?
Aug 12 - By Alonso Duralde, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Audrey Niffenegger’s best-selling love story is rendered creepy, confusing and clunky on the big screen.
Mar 17 - By Alonso Duralde, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
The idea that two retired spies could get an erotic charge from each other’s facility with lying and double-crossing harkens back to Ernst Lubitsch’s classic romance “Trouble in Paradise,” in which two con artists literally pick each other’s pockets as foreplay.

Feb 27 - By Michael Ventre, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
If the Dodgers and Manny Ramirez indeed have reached across the great negotiating chasm that divided them as recent reports suggest, it would be an ideal time for the club to say, “O.K., Manny, start paying for yourself.”