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Taken -- the latest hit from French thrillmeisters Luc Besson and Pierre Morel -- casts Liam Neeson as an ex-CIA hand who springs into hell-hath-no-fury mode when slave traders kidnap his vacationing teen daughter.... (more)

The titular young heroine walks through a secret door to discover a parallel reality that is eerily similar to the life she already knows -- yet deeply unsettling in a number of ways -- in this animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's international bestseller by director Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas).... (more)

This deftly written and acted "bromantic" comedy features Paul Rudd as a man engaged to the woman of his dreams, yet without a single suitable candidate to serve as his best man. A series of "man dates" leads to an odd-coupling of sorts with the wonderfully cast Jason Segel .... (more)

The latest TV gem from Alan Ball (Six Feet Under), True Blood finds its source in bayou backwoods of Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse novels, where vampires -- their hunger newly sated by synthetic blood -- have begun an uneasy integration.... (more)

The dazzling retro drama Mad Men returns for its sophomore season in fine fettle, with mysteriously conflicted advertising genius Don Draper (Jon Hamm) at a crossroads with his wife Betty (January Jones) and copywriter Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss) on the rise, to her male coworkers' collective chagrin....(more)