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Patricia Clarkson Born: Dec. 29, 1959, in New Orleans. This year was a busy year for Patricia Clarkson, and 2010 promises to produce a lot of work as well, a reflection of her position as one of Hollywood's top character actresses.

DVD Tuesday: 'Ice Age 3' & 'Adoration' Devon Bostick in 'Adoration' Available this week on DVD and Blu-ray: Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs has our furry friends on a whole new animated adventure; Atom Egoyan 's Adoration follows one young boy looking for answers about his dead parents; Larry David stars in the Woody Allen comedy, Whatever Works ; ...

I've always been leery when I see a movie based on a video game. There's no reset button if the movie turns bad, and you don't have a controller to take over if you see the character's screwing things up.

It's wise to carry low expectations for horror movies these days. This anticipation certainly will result in a win-win situation, especially with the state of the genre.

Isabelle Fuhrmann is shown in a scene from "Orphan." "Orphan," Warner Home Video, 123 minutes, Rated R for disturbing violent content, some sexuality and language - With their marriage faltering a bit after their third child, Jessica, was stillborn, Kate and John Coleman decide to adopt Esther .

ORPHAN 3 stars $28.98. 123 mins. After their third child is stillborn, a married couple adopts a 9-year-old Russian girl, who is nothing that she appears to be.

WHO WOULD NAME their son "Odd"? Apparently parents in Norway, where this sparse film about a 67-year-old train engineer forced to retire takes place.

Woody Allen's latest, "Whatever Works," was originally written in the 1970s and covers many of the themes the actor-comedian-writer had on his mind in those days a ' women , old movies and music, the charms of hometown Manhattan and the impermanent and ephemeral nature of love.

This Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Frya TMs.

If you like kids movies get ready, because Ice Age 3 is thawing its way onto disc and Tinkerbell now has her own movie as part of the worst three DVDs of the week.

New DVDs being released Tuesday, Oct. 27, include "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs' and 'Orphan.' Family, friends and one scary "Orphan" gather on DVD today.

This week's DVD crop has something for everyone. There are two animated films for kids, a new Woody Allen effort for their parents and a first-rate horror film for anyone looking for a Halloween scare.

Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins and Naomi Watts will star in Woody Allen's new film, "You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger," its Spanish producer said Monday.

Writer-director Allen finds a fitting stand-in to espouse his trademark sour intellectual world-view. Cranky Larry David plays a loner retiree and self-proclaimed genius who improbably takes in a pretty teen runaway .

Larry David, John Gallagher Jr. and Evan Rachel Wood co-star in Woody Allen's 'Whatever Works.' We don't expect many kids will be sitting at home watching movies next weekend, but if all that candy leaves them crashed on the couch, you may want to have one of tomorrow's releases on hand.

Here are the DVDs releasing this week, Tuesday October 27, 2009. DVDS OF THE WEEK - Volume 2 releases of the Warner Brother collection of animated cartoons.

PLOT This is the third and barely more than middling-funny installment in the series of animated features about the prehistoric adventures of Manny , Diego and Sid , a woolly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger and a ground sloth stuck in a snowbound world.

Evan Rachel Wood has been cast in the Robert Redford-directed film "The Conspirator," which begins shooting this month in Georgia.

Patricia Clarkson, Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster and Emmy Rossum will be among the honorees at the 12th annual Savannah Film Festival, kicking off Oct.

Margaret and David review Woody Allen's Whatever Works; British films The Damned United and An Education, starring Carey Mulligan; In Search of Beethoven; and Departures, this year's Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Film.