
Coming out this week is another romantic comedy featuring 'Grey's Anatomy' star Katherine Heigl and '300' star Gerard Butler.
The battle of the sexes heats up in Columbia Pictures' comedy 'The Ugly Truth.' Abby Richter (Heigl) is a romantically challenged morning-show producer whose search for Mr. Perfect has left her hopelessly single. She's in for a rude awakening when her bosses team her up with Mike Chadway (Butler), a hard-core TV personality who promises to spill the ugly truth on what makes men and women tick.
The film also stars Eric Winter, John Michael Higgins, Nick Searcy, Kevin Connolly and Cheryl Hines.
Out on DVD and Blu-ray is the director's cut of 'Watchmen,' featuring an additional 20 minutes of scenes never seen in the theaters.
Starring Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Carla Gugino, Stephen McHattie and Matt Frewer, the comic book film may find an audience suited to watch the lengthy film at home after underperforming box office numbers.
A complex, multilayered mystery adventure, 'Watchmen' is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the Doomsday Clock -- which charts the United State's tension with the Soviet Union -- is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion -- a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers -- Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity...but who is watching the watchmen?
'Darkon' is a feature documentary that follows the real-life adventures of an unusual group of weekend "warrior knights" -- fantasy role-playing gamers whose live-action "battleground" is modern-day Baltimore re-imagined as a make-believe medieval world named Darkon. These gamers combine the physical drama of historical re-enactments with character-driven story lines, inspired in part by perennial favorite fantasy epics like the legends of King Arthur, 'Lord of the Rings,' and the saga of 'Conan the Barbarian.' As role players, they create alter egos with rich emotional, psychological and social lives. They costume themselves and physically act out their characters exploits, both in intimate court intrigue and campouts in panoramic battle scenarios involving competitive strategies, convincingly real props and full-contact "combat." Because real life so often gets in the way, its easy to understand these players' motivations: Everybody wants to be a hero.

