Writers: Tom Kapinos, Gina Fattore, Daisy Gardner, Jay Dyer, and Gabriel Roth

Directors: David Duchovny, David Von Ancken, John Dahl, Ken Whittingham, Michael Lehmann, Daniel Duchovny, Adam Bernstein, and Bart Freundlich

Cast: David Duchovny, Natasha McElhone, Madeleine Martin, Evan Handler, Pamela Adlon, Madeline Zima and Callum Keith Rennie

Anyone who is reading this and/or who knows me knows that I have an obvious man crush on David Duchovny. I grew up watching The X-Files and Fox Mulder will always be my childhood hero. The point being that (a) I’ve followed Duchovny’s work for a long time and (b) when I heard two years ago that he was returning to television with Californication on Showtime, I was ecstatic. The first season of the show was golden. It set up the basic premise of a writer with writers block named Hank Moody (Duchovny) trying to put his life back together but failing miserably. He had a daughter with his beautiful girlfriend Karen (McElhone) and wrote a book that won him so much acclaim it was being made into a movie. When the movie tanked, so did the rest of his life. In fact throughout the hilarious and heartfelt first season, there was rarely a moment where Mr. Moody wasn’t drunk, high, having sex or some combination of the three. At the same time, he was trying to convince Karen not to get married. The season ended with Karen deciding that she wants to be with Hank and they drove off into the night.

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Written by Bruce Joel Rubin

Directed by Robert Schwentke

The Time Traveler’s Wife is a wonderfully original story about a man who simply can’t always be there for the woman he loves because he jumps through periods of time uncontrollably. The film stars Eric Bana and my favorite, Rachel McAdams, who do a terrific job with their roles. Bana plays Henry, a man who since he was six has been traveling to different points in time because of a genetic defect in his brain. Sounds ridiculous, but many films are out there with their plots. However, the ones that establish the rules early on (which this one does) and never violate them make the world they create believable. McAdams in a truly terrific performance plays Clare, the woman of Henry’s dreams and the one who has to deal with the craziness of being with a time traveler.

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Written by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber

Directed by Marc Webb

(500) Days of Summer is a wonderfully heartbreaking film that really makes anyone watching it think back to a love they once had. What happens when you look back on past events? What happens when our expectations do not align with reality?  Why is something that should be seen as fate never meant to be? As the poster says, (500) Days of Summer is a story about love, and not a love story.

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Entourage seems to inspire a kind of fanatical devotion that I simply do not understand. I started watching it mainly because there wasn’t anything else to watch and, largely, that is the reason I have continued to watch. If the show was to be can canceled tomorrow, I wouldn’t bat an eye.

For those who are unfamiliar Entourage follows the lives of Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) , the next “hot” star, his brother Johnny “Drama” Chase (Kevin Dillon), a mediocre actor struggling to make it, Eric Murphy (Kevin Connolly), Vince’s business manager and best friend, and their other friend Turtle (Jerry Ferrera), who appears to do almost nothing. The other main character is Ari Gold, Vince’s hard selling agent played by Jeremy Piven. Usually each season focuses on Vincent trying to get a movie deal, with the season ending with him going off to make the movie. Various side plots involving Eric’s romantic life, Johny’s career, Turtle doing nothing and Ari’s life are also explored.

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