The film follows their relationship over the course of a summer, until it succumbs to the expected difficulties (Michael is, after all, about half his girlfriends age). It then fast-forwards several years, when Michael is in law school and has long moved past his spring awakening.

It won't be an easy journey, or a short one. Benjamin will leave home on a tugboat bound for Russia, fight briefly in World War II and go through an affair or two, while Daisy pursues her dreams of becoming a ballerina in New York City. All of this is entertaining enough in the film's first 90 minutes.

But 2008, you made a believer out of me again. A triumphant Batman movie was only one part of what proved to be a pretty excellent year in American cinema. I havent yet seen everything I wanted to see (Synecdoche, will you ever make it to Greensboro?), but there was a lot to love in 2008 regardless.

Soon after these two set up shop in Oskar's neighborhood, news gets out of a string of brutal, unsolved attacks and murders in the area. Oskar's mother forbids him from leaving the apartment complex courtyard after nightfall, drastically restricting his already-limited social opportunities.

Suffice it to say that Kym believes everyone still hates her, and to an extent she’s right. Her clumsy attempts to make amends for her many, many mistakes only pick at the scabs

My reasons are legion, but here's the short list: the labored hipness, the pointless anachronism, the frantic editing and the in-your-face overacting.

Coogan is stunning in his commitment to the character of Dana Marschz (pronounced, he insists, “MAR-ss-shh-zuh”). This man is many things: struggling actor, idiotic playwright, terrible husband and appalling educator.

The answer: Occasional hilarity. Very occasional. Rainn Wilson stars as Robert “Fish” Fishman, who in 1986 was kicked out of Vesuvius, a Cleveland hair-metal powerhouse on the verge of world domination. He never recovered from the indignity.

It’s been a long summer. Who’s ready for a non-franchise, non-superhero inspired movie that will tug at your heartstrings, make you laugh and restore (or reaffirm) your faith in the nation’s youth? If your hand is in the air, report directly to American Teen,.

Our monthly viewing from the Judd Apatow collection is another late-summer romp from writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who scored a left-field hit this time last year with Superbad.

First, let me emphasize that I understand writing a political comedy, especially for the United States in 2008, must be difficult. Good comedy is hard on its own; toss in thorny political and social issues and you’ve got a near-impossible balancing act. So Swing Vote’s horrible failure is at least understandable.

Along the way, they'll contend with relationship difficulties between Hellboy and his girlfriend, Liz (Selma Blair); a new love interest for egghead fish-man Abe Sapien (Doug Jones); and the introduction of a brilliantly-conceived, entirely gaseous team leader voiced by Family Guy Seth McFarlane.