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Three armed men in ski masks stole four paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet worth $163.2 million from in one of Europe's largest ever art heists.

Martin Lawrence plays Roscoe Jenkins, a talk-show star who returns from Los Angeles to the Deep South for a family reunion, flashy fiancée in tow. Broad comedy? Certainly, and a frenetic one, too.

A new Washington, D.C., play tells the stories of the black inventors and entrepreneurs who created many everyday items still in use today, including hair products and the potato chip.

Topography counts in a treasure hunt — which this desperately unfunny shlock-fest is, at least theoretically — but even that can't explain Andy Tennant's fascination with Matthew McConaughey's chest.

Twenty-five years after its debut, the dystopian-future classic Blade Runner has been released on DVD in a re-edited version called Blade Runner: The Final Cut. Director Ridley Scott talks about that release, as well as about his most recent film, American Gangster.

Blood flows freely and imaginatively in this splendid adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical — about a vengeful barber and his pie-baking landlady, who doesn't want the victims to go to waste. Happily, so do melody and feeling. (Recommended)

Children in Afghanistan are at the center of The Kite Runner, the film adapted from the bestselling book by Khalid Hosseni. Like the novel, the film breaks into two parts: childhood friendship and betrayal in pre-war Afghanistan, then how that relationship changes in adulthood.

The film Atonement, based on the novel by Ian McEwan, is a rich, old-fashioned love story and a potent meditation on the power of fiction to destroy and create.

It's the familiar, but sometimes unintelligible voice standing out among all the rest: that fast-talking, number-crunching auctioneer. Denise Shearin shares tips and divulges insider info on the world of auction blocks. Shearin was recently named the International Auction Champion.

Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl returns with another set of titles you should be reading but haven't (yet). The latest batch features the story of three royal cousins, tales of wild animal adventures and a pun-filled picture book for younger readers.