This week's video review takes on Adam Sandler's You Don't Mess with the Zohan, in which the comedian stars as an Israeli commando hoping to succeed as a hairdresser in New York. Will Sandler's collaboration with SNL's Robert Smigel and Knocked Up mastermind Judd Apatow succeed? Watch and find out.

• Review: You Don't Mess With the Zohan (2 stars)

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[Video: Jennifer Hsu]

I know what you’re thinking: Does the Dirty Harry Collection released today on standard DVD and newfangled Blu-Ray include all five "Harry" movies or only four, thus sparing us The Dead Pool, the final chapter released in 1988? Well, to tell you the truth, in all the excitement, I’ve kind of lost track. But being as this is the "Ultimate Collection," remastered with a quality in image and sound that will blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?” My answer is:

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In one of the few shocks in no-surprises-please Hollywood, Sex and the City unmanned Indiana Jones into the shame of second place. That's $55.7 million for Sex at 3,285 theaters and $46 million for Indy 4 at 4,264 theaters. Sex enjoyed the biggest weekend debut ever for a romantic comedy, doubling the $27.5 million debut of The Devil Wears Prada, and scoring the fifth best debut of all time for an R-rated film. Sex easily topped other R-rated comedies, such as The Wedding Crashers and Knocked Up. Which means Dr. Jones was thoroughly pussywhipped. Instead of giving the ladies their due—what's wrong with a victory for females in a male-dominated summer?—the beancounters keep putting up a biased macho defense:

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