Hot mama Angelina Jolie and hot dad Brad Pitt had been named Couple of the Year by American magazine Us Weekly.

And the pair proved themselves worthy winners when they gushed about each other recently: “I think Angelina is the greatest gift I can give my kids. They have such a fantastic mother,” Brad said.

Angelina added: “Brad is just so natural playing with the kids. His eyes light up whenever he teaches Mad or Pax something new and sees them laugh or scream with joy. I could spend hours just watching Brad enjoy his time with the kids.”

Brangelina narrowly beat Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes to the title of (Most Sickly) Couple of the Year.

Do you remember Jessica Simpson film called Blonde Ambition (2008) that was supposed to be going straight to DVD after everyone involved pretty much agreed that it sucked, and wasn’t worth a theatrical release?

Well, Jessica Simpson – Blonde Ambition (2008) is going to be released on 22 January 2008. Pre-Order now.

The City That Never Sleeps is about to meet the girl that doesn’t quit. Jessica Simpson stars as Katie Gregerstitch, a small-town Oklahoma beauty who’s come to New York to visit her long-time boyfriend.

But after finding him in the arms of another woman, Katie decides to lose her cheating man and to find herself. With the help of two scheming co-workers (Andy Dick and Penelope Ann Miller), she lands a job at a top construction firm where she meets and falls for a great guy (Luke Wilson) with an even greater secret.

Now, nothing is going to stop this go-getter from getting exactly what her heart desires in the romantic comedy that proves you can’t keep a bright, beautiful down-home girl down. Also starring Willie Nelson.

Leah Remini – King Of Queens – The Complete Ninth Season (1998) is the most underrated show of the last decade. Everybody Loves Raymond was great, but King of Queens was a much funnier show.

The chemistry between the three main characters–Doug, Carrie and Arthur — makes for countless laughs, even when no dialog is spoken.

Leah Remini – King Of Queens – The Complete Ninth Season strikes a special chord if you grew up middle class in the New York area.

A funny and touching goodbye to one of the last good, clean sitcoms with actually likable characters. The ninth season was as good as the first, which is unusual in sitcoms.

The show will be missed, but thank goodness for cheap DVDs of Leah Remini – King Of Queens – The Complete Ninth Season — Doug, Carrie, and Arthur forever!

If you’re willing to read subtitles, Cheap DVD: Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) (DVD 2002) is an excellent foreign film. This movie is set in Taiwan, about the importance of and the tight connection between a person’s individual identity and his/her family life in Chinese society and culture.

The work lives, interpersonal lives, and spiritual lives of four main characters are explored and interwoven, with the Sunday dinner table being the terminus at which they all meet and from which we switch characters and depart on the continuing exploration of each person’s life.

Each of the main character’s lives would be interesting enough for its own full-length movie; so together they keep you thinking and interested from opening to closing credits.

In this masterful cultural portrait of the balanced interplay between life and death, work and love, family and self, food and deprivation, Ang Lee allows us to see and experience the intimate details of a major world culture, which is vastly different from our own in the western world.

The popular theme of traditional Chinese culture being impacted by modern life is addressed in a more realistic, less overdone, manner than in many movies, and the multi-generational presentation of interwoven lives makes it more easily understandable and complete.

Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) (DVD 2002) will leave you with a warm smile of satisfaction and deeper understanding of what it is to be a person on this planet.

Warning: Do not watch Cheap DVD: Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) (DVD 2002) if you are hungry! If you do, within the first 10 minutes, you will pause it, and have to run out for Chinese food instantly and not the quick take out junk either, but the honest to god traditional Chinese cuisine that the father makes.

Ang Lee gives us insight into this family from the perspective of how love and life and humanity can be compared to eating and drinking. The soundtrack is amazing, the scenery is magnificent and the realness of it all transport you in, so that you can almost smell the food cooking. I would have killed to be on that set to just sample all those dishes!

Ratatouille (2007). It’s always a pleasure to watch a new movie from Pixar, those kinetic wizards of shiny sculpted animation who gave us the Toy Story films, Finding Nemo, and Cars, because it’s a safe bet that you’re in for a sparkly good time — or, just maybe, a great one.

In the case of the antic kiddie gourmet comedy Ratatouille, which might be described as Anatole the mouse meets Emeril Live, the expectations are high: The writer-director is Brad Bird, who made The Incredibles (2004), and it would be hard to name an animated film, from Pixar or anyone else, that was ever more incredible. So… Enjoy!!!

Read the plot synopsis before you buy the cheap the cheap DVD Ratatouille (2007). A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family’s wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau.

Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely – and certainly unwanted – visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy’s passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down.

The Sixth Sense (Two-Disc Vista Series) (1999). Every now and then, a movie comes along with a whole new twist and makes you feel happy that you have actually gone to see it.

This happened when I watched Cheap DVDs: The Sixth Sense (Two-Disc Vista Series) (1999). I didn’t think much of it in the beginning because I thought it was going to be another one of paranormal flicks that sometimes flood the market.

The Sixth Sense was a success at the box office in 1999 mainly because of Haley Joel Osment. When he acted in this movie, he was just 11 years old. Actually, he looked much younger than 11.

Anyway, Haley has got that kind of look that projects bewilderment, innocence and vulnerability.

Everybody it seems were taken by surprise by the ending. It gave us all the unknowing a good kick in the seat of our pants.

When a movie like The Sixth Sense has the ability to achieve that kind of effect, it gives the cash register a consistent and persistent ring at the box office.

The famous line that came out of that movie was “I see dead people”. Since then, many people have used that line on numerous occasions in their private lives to achieve all kinds of humorous effects.

Shymalan was credited with having the genius of taking everybody by surprise by his superb handling of the dying minutes of the entire plot. I suppose everybody needs to look at things from a new perspective as far as Shymalan was concerned.

The Sixth Sense won six Oscar nominations. They were for Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Film, Best Editing, Best Director and Best Screenplay Writing. Surprisingly it left the hall empty handed on Academy night. A crying shame, no doubt.

Before all concerned could dry their tears, the other awards came pouring in. All in all, The Sixth Sense picked up 30 other accolades. I suppose it more than made up for the Oscar loss.

It also made Haley Joel Osment famous and Night Shymalan one of the most-sought-after directors in the following years after the release of the movie.

This film cannot be put into the Scary category because it is not really so. My guess is that its major appeal is that seeing dead people isn’t all that bad because it is supposed to have some beneficial effects on those who are still living.

People in general want to know that after their loved ones have passed away, they are still around to care for them and the love that existed when they were alive had not disappeared even when the spirit was on the other dimension.

Normally, I wouldn’t watch ghost movies or horror flicks because they are too predictable or too gruesome.

Who wants to watch a movie with human entrails hanging out or hands chopped off in slow motion. We really don’t need to be reminded that such things do occur or can happen to some of us.

It is not as if our lives are not boring but The Sixth Sense ups the ante as far as paranormal movies are concerned. Kudos to Shymalan for springing a surprise on many of us. He deserves the success that he has achieved with this movie. Buy Cheap DVDs: The Sixth Sense (Two-Disc Vista Series) (1999).

Once in a while, a movie goer comes across a film that generates so much excitement that it becomes the conversation topic of most household and office gatherings.

In 1991, this phenomenon took place and  The Silence Of The Lambs. For once, a movie has emerged to challenge the imagination of worldwide cinema audiences. It is scary, thought-provoking and downright gross in an almost non-violent way.

Anthony Hopkins is the main protagnist in the tale. He’s Dr Hannibal Lecter, an evil genius who has a predilection for human flesh. When the movie was screened around the world, Hannibal the cannibal became the catch-phrase.

A lot of people thought it was “cute”.Not me. I thought it was gross. What made this movie so thrilling was the tale of courting a killer to find another killer. Jodie Foster in one of her most engrossing roles played a rookie FBI officer, Clarice Starling, who has been assigned to track down a murderer who skins his victims.

The trail of clues leads to Dr Hannibal Lecter, who himself is a deranged killer of immense intelligence. Thus, the scene was set for one of the most mind-blowing visual sequences that ever caught the imagination of cinema viewers as well as producers of Hollywood.

Projecting an image of vulnerability as well as deceptive maturity, Clarice manages to piece together some of the vital clues that eventually lead her to “Buffalo Bill”, the name of the serial killer.

Director Jonathan Demme all the credit given to him for giving this film the edge-of-your-seat tension that keeps audiences transfixed in their seats.

It is at once brilliant and at the same time excruciating suspenseful. The two characters who gave this Cheap DVD: The Silence Of The Lambs (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition) (1991) the drama of investigation and exciting and unpredictable machinations of the human mind that won it five Oscars were Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins.

In the end, it would not be too presumptuous to say that Hopkins almost ran away with the show, with Foster as a close second.

Truly, The Silence Of The Lambs deserves its haul of five Oscars: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Picture and Best Screenplay.

The success of this film would later spawn two more sequels: Hannibal and Red Dragon, but the latter two would not be able to match the original movie for its shocking climax and the thrill of the chase.

It has been a long 16 years since this movie hit the screens. I have not come across movie that has been able to match its level of excitement.

Cheap DVDs: The Silence Of The Lambs (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition) (1991) must be watched at least twice to be appreciated to its maximum effect. Simply brilliant.

Lust, Caution (Widescreen NC-17 Edition) (2007). I saw this movie twice in the theater – very unusual for someone as critical of movies as I am.

The first time I went by myself, and the second time I took my husband, who was not initially interested in the story line (espionage and all). He was profoundly moved by it as well.

I’m not exaggerating – I was like in a zone for a few days after I saw the movie. It really shook me to the core in a sense.

A very powerful movie in and of itself, it moves me particularly because I am originally from China and Eileen Chang was one of my favorite writers when I was a teenager book worm.

Having grown up surrounded by the communist propaganda, I found it refreshing to watch a movie so artfully done to create a theme about love, sexuality and loyalty. It shows how innocent and ignorant the young revolutionaries could be (something that was obviously omitted in our history lessons).

This Lust, Caution is a movie about powerful human emotions, like all the other movies directed by Ang Lee. I’m also happy to see Ang Lee sticking to making movies based on good, solid stories, instead of falling into the ‘glitz overriding story’ trap like so many other talented Chinese directors, Zhang Yimou and Cheng Kaige specifically.

My husband and I went on an Ang Lee mini marathon after watching this movie, and saw The Ice Storm, and Eat, Drink, Man, Woman. We really think Ang Lee is a genius film-maker.

Ang Lee breaks through again with a masterful adaptation of Eileen Chang’s short story, Lust/Caution (like what he did with Annie Prolux’s similarly brief story, Brokeback Mountain). While the hype seems to be mostly misplaced on the controversial acrobatics displayed by Tony Leung and Tang Wei in bed, Lee’s storytelling leaves one breathless.

Buy Cheap DVDs: Lust, Caution (Widescreen NC-17 Edition) (2007). The love story unfolds against the backdrop of 1930′s Japanese-invaded Shanghai where tyranny and suffering were synonymous.

Nubile Wang Jia Zhi played by Tang Wei joins the resistance movement and gets herself drawn into the role of a spy to crumble the traitor, Mr Yee. In between the espionage and wild climatic trysts, both of them unknowingly embroil themselves in love and deceit, much deeper than they would have liked themselves to.

Tang Wei, as a newcomer to cinema, is impeccable. Her evolution from a wide-eyed country girl to a seductive temptress is enough to make the hardest of most men, in this case, the distrusting Mr. Yee fall for her.

Wei acts pretty much on instincts and her body language does wonders at seducing the somewhat vulnerable Mr. Yee played by multiple-award winner Tony Leung. Wei breaks down in the memorable scene where she’s talking to the resistance leader on her unyieldingly sacrificial role that is both a torment and insidious attack to her emotions.

As usual, Tony has the penchant for playing dark brooding men and in this instance, an evil Chinese traitor. He does not act. His presence already commands attention as the cynical no-nonsense minister.

The pivotal sex scenes, split into three parts, are not just there for visual enhancement. They actually convey the shift in roles between the two throughout their complex relationship. The raw emotions displayed on their faces were enough to convince anyone hard-hearted to think twice about the essence of love. I must say these are some of the best bed scenes you’ll ever witness on film.

Of course, the supporting cast of Joan Chen as Mrs Yee and Wong Lee-Hom as Tang Wei’s resistance compatriot, Kuang Yu Min, is every bit just as spectacular.

In the end, the story about love is bittersweet. You’ll also see how fervent the resistance movement, which puts the enemy above self and others, was through Wang Jia Zhi’s eyes.

Cheap DVD Lust Caution is 157 minutes’ of rewarding watch that will linger on in your minds well after the credits roll.