Film Review
Inherent Vice
Trippy mystery gets lost (albeit pleasantly) in a fog of drugs and weirdness
Paul Thomas Anderson tackles Thomas Pynchon with drug-addled mystery Inherent Vice.

Reel World
Basement Films welcomes experimental filmmaker, Zero Point hosts stunt workshop, KiMo Theatre screens Tim Burton’s films.

Idiot Box
TV News
Educational tidbits from around the dial
The CW adds more DC heroes, “Minority Report” gets a weekly spinoff, Guillermo Del Toro does TV.

Week in Sloth
Canines hit the “World Dog Awards,” Whitney Houston gets the Lifetime biopic treatment and Syfy turns “12 Monkeys” into a series.