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Easygoing dialogue, a relaxed message: Wave-riding penguin mockumentary Surf's Up is PG-gentle, sweet, and laid-back like no kid flick you'll remember.

On TV's Rescue Me, the comic, actor and writer Denis Leary plays a highly strung, highly macho fireman Tommy Gavin, who deals with raging fires and his own raging male ego. Season 4 starts next week on the FX network.

Judd Apatow worked on the cult-favorite TV comedy Freaks and Geeks, but you'll know him as writer-director of The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Now he's back with Knocked Up; we talk to Apatow and to Knocked Up star Seth Rogen.

A rising-star TV reporter has a one-night stand with a guy who won't grow up; Judd Apatow's comedy is a kind of Peter-and-Wendy-get- preggers story for the 21st century.

Shrek the Third isn't a great hand-hold movie (action for the kiddies, pop-culture cleverness for the folks), but it's a flat-out triumph of comedy writing, and its slob-happy world view still has appeal.

Popular magazines for people of color are gaining ground in mainstream publishing. Editors of three top magazines for women of color — Essence, East West and Latina — talk about the mission of their publications.

Adrienne Shelly's comic fable, about a pie-baking genius discovering her inner strength, is by turns amusing, implausible and optimistic.

The film version of Susan Minot's novel about two women who hear their mom's deathbed murmurs about a long-lost love — and how she killed a man in her youth. Vanessa Redgrave and Meryl Streep (plus their daughters Natasha Richardson and Mamie Gummer) combat a melodramatic script.

In this installment of Summary Judgment, a roundup of movie critics' verdicts from the online magazine Slate, we'll hear about Hostel: Part II Ocean's Thirteen and Surf's Up.

The premise of Knocked Up is as blunt — as basic — as its title: An attractive and newly successful TV correspondent becomes pregnant after a drunken one-night stand with Ben, who's not just unsuitable but an unholy monument to self-indulgence. Judd Apatow's film is conventional, even conservative, but somehow it plays like one of the hippest movies ever made.