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WHAT: HDNet will provide exclusive live coverage of the Quarterfinal Round of the 2010 College Basketball Invitational. On Monday, March 22, the Virginia Commonwealth Rams will host the College of Charleston Cougars at 7:00 p.m. ET. Then, at 9:00 p.m. ET, the St. Louis University Billikens play host to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Phoenix.  

Julianna Margulies wants you to know that she's capable of being funny. We know what you must be thinking: The woman who currently stars in the hit CBS drama 'The Good Wife' ? The same actress who has won an Emmy and multiple Screen Actor Guild awards for her dramatic work on shows like 'ER'?  

There used to be two independent movie rental places in my neighborhood, with one just a few blocks further away offering a seemingly endless array of movies - blockbusters, esoteric indies, extreme horror, sexploitation and grindhouse, triple X features, and even dubiously dubbed impossible to get films like the infamous Skidoo , Preminger's LSD freakout featuring a stoned Groucho Marx as God. Since rents have skyrocketed and Netflix has appeared on the scene, these brick and mortar stores have ...  

And the early favourites for Best Film, according to the website, are Danny Boyle's new movie 127 Hours , The Kids Are Alright , Brad Pitt and Sean Penn's The Tree of Life , Inception , western remake True Grit , Clint Eastwood's The Hereafter and Johnny Depp's movie adaptation of his late pal Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary .  

Meanwhile, Slashfilm reports Warner Bros' top man Alan Horn announced all major releases -- including superhero films -- will be released in 3D. According to Collider , the DC Superhero stable will replace "Harry Potter" in the studio's franchise apparatus now that the series has reached its conclusion. Starring Ryan Reynolds, release date:  

In an interview with Jon Favreau in the latest issue of Total Film (May 2010) he talks more about Iron Man 2 and it's place in the universe that Marvel are building as well as sharing his thoughts on the rest of the upcoming movies that will lead into 2012's The Avengers . For more from the director, the magazine is on sale now. On Iron Man 2 and it's effect on the Marvel movie universe: Honestly, I'm the guy who's running, holding the torch, trying to get this story done.  

Television in 3-D is the next big thing, and just around the corner. The only thing is, it's been just around the corner for the last decade, if not more. But with an astounding amount of buzz in the electronics world, and the movie "Avatar" in 3-D breaking box office records, a lot of TV companies and some cable companies are pushing hard for you to buy into 3-D in your living room.  

Film critics have largely earned a reputation among mainstream movie audiences as snooty, stuffed-shirt elitists by panning what's popular – and dismissing the will of mass audiences who make box office giants of popcorn action and low-brow humor. It's why many moviegoers connect more with the MTV Movie Awards than the Academy Awards. Oscar typically shuns the "Transformers" and "Twilight" movies, and comedy rarely breaks into the Best Picture race.  

Whether you're strumming a guitar inCrazy Heartand riding a light-cycle, it's all the same. So says newly-minted Oscar winner Jeff Bridges, who will next be seen inTron: Legacy,Disney's expensive gamble at transforming its 1982 flop into a 21st century franchise. "The challenge was kind of the story. That was the big special effect, as far as I was concerned -- getting that story right," he told journalists at last summer's Comic-Con. "We worked on it and I think we came up with it."  

It's where foreign-film buffs, independent-movie lovers, college-football fans, news seekers and those wishing to honor a late entertainment icon have gathered to laugh, cheer, shed a tear or be shockingly intrigued. But no matter what generation Harkins Valley Art theater has seen walk through its doors, the 72-year-old brick building at Fifth Street and Mill Avenue has kept its historical charm while remaining relevant in the heart of a college town. A $1 million renovation completed in 2000 ...