Walter Salles' "On the Road" was made with noble intentions, finely-crafted filmmaking and handsome casting, but, alas, it does not burn, burn, burn.

Andy Dick has spent well over 10 years trying to get his life together.

Wynonna Judd rose to fame in the 1980s as half of the country music duo The Judds, with her mother, Naomi. She is known for her deep voice, fiery red hair and rock star attitude.

One of the most gratifying aspects of watching “This Is 40,” the new film from comedy mogul Judd Apatow, is seeing this sort of “Apatowian universe” that he’s created coalesce before our eyes.

"This Is 40" is every inch a Judd Apatow movie, from the pop culture references and potty mouths to the blunt body humor and escapist drug use. Like all the movies he's directed — and it's amazing to think there have only been three previous ones, given his name-brand value — it's a good 20 minutes too long.

While “Knocked Up” established Seth Rogan and Katherine Heigl as major movie stars, it was Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd that stole the entire show. Rogan and Heigl’s characters are nowhere to be found in the sort-of sequel to “Knocked Up.” Rather, “This is 40” passes the torch over to Mann’s Debbie and Rudd’s Pete as they both reach the dreaded middle-aged milestone.

A TV show DVD set represents more than a holiday gift that’s easy to wrap. It also demonstrates respect: you know the recipient is mentally fit and couch-ready for a viewing marathon of “Dr. Who” or “House.”

A TV show DVD set represents more than a holiday gift that's easy to wrap. It also demonstrates respect: you know the recipient is mentally fit and couch-ready for a viewing marathon of "Dr. Who" or "House."

December will soon be descending upon us. For a lot of people this month will entail building snowmen, sledding down hills of snow, making snow angles and getting tongues stuck to icy poles. Of course those stuck in Ahwatukee won’t be able to appreciate any of these traditional winter activities. But who needs snow when you can spend your Christmas break in a cozy movie theater. Here are several films to look out for this holiday season.

The heralded holiday movie season is marked by big-budget extravaganzas, Oscar hopefuls and family films suitable for post-Thanksgiving or early Christmas viewing and for filling that luxuriously open week (for some lucky workers and students) before New Year’s Day.

The whole point of calling a phone-sex line is that you know what you're getting, right? You pick up the phone, pay your money and partake in some, um, self-satisfaction. It's a sure thing. Everyone hangs up happy.

The B-list rules Hollywood’s fall and holiday movie season: Bond, Bella and Bilbo.

I was watching the Republican Convention as it opened with the Color Guard. I couldn’t help but cry as I watched the men who had lost limbs serving our country while they presented and honored our American Flag. Then I remembered the picture of people in Phoenix walking and spitting on our flag. If we stay the course we are currently on, I fear that our future generations will not have the freedoms to honor our flag, the symbol of our great nation and of the freedoms for which many sacrificed their lives.

When summer grows long and our ideas for amusement short, we love options like Chandler Center for the Arts’ free summer concert series.

NAPA, Calif. (AP) — Do you crave a little red-blooded adventure along with your red wine? The Napa Valley may have just what you seek.

NAPA, Calif. (AP) — Do you crave a little red-blooded adventure along with your red wine? The Napa Valley may have just what you seek.

NAPA, Calif. (AP) — Do you crave a little red-blooded adventure along with your red wine? The Napa Valley may have just what you seek.

The problem that plagues so many Judd Apatow productions — the one that keeps good comedies from being great ones — unfortunately exists in "The Five-Year Engagement," too. It's a matter of knowing when to say when, of knowing which bits should be trimmed and which should have been cut altogether.

Arizona may be in line to be the seventh state in the nation to ban abortions at 20 weeks.

In 1978, National Lampoon’s “Animal House” revolutionized the hard R comedy and is still considered the “Citizen Kane” of the genre. The ’80s followed with numerous other college/teen-aged/sex comedies like “Porky’s,” “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” and “Revenge of the Nerds.” With some of these ’80s flicks like “Screwballs” and “Joysticks,” you could tell just how raunchy they were based on the title. The 1990s, however, was a rather tamed decade. A majority of ’90s comedies rarely embraced nudity and kept the major swear words to a limit. There were two movies that strived to be as vulgar and gleefully crude as the comedies of the ’80s though. One was “There’s Something About Mary.” The other was “American Pie.”

In 1978, National Lampoon’s “Animal House” revolutionized the hard R comedy and is still considered the “Citizen Kane” of the genre. The ’80s followed with numerous other college/teen-aged/sex comedies like “Porky’s,” “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” and “Revenge of the Nerds.” With some of these ’80s flicks like “Screwballs” and “Joysticks,” you could tell just how raunchy they were based on the title. The 1990s, however, was a rather tamed decade. A majority of ’90s comedies rarely embraced nudity and kept the major swear words to a limit. There were two movies that strived to be as vulgar and gleefully crude as the comedies of the ’80s though. One was “There’s Something About Mary.” The other was “American Pie.”

Verbally battered by local officials, a southern Arizona lawmaker is abandoning her proposal to warn area residents and visitors about dangers from illegal immigrants.