Contributor: Bob Waliszewski

The football-proud town of Athens, Georgia, hasn’t been the same since Coach Buster Schuler walked off the field 12 years ago.

The morning after his bachelor party and a week before his wedding with Karen, Paul wakes up with a naked Tiki dancer in his bed.

On the day after Christmas 1953 in Dublin, Ireland, the wife of unemployed painter and decorator Desmond Doyle runs off with another man.

The elf-reared Buddy has a heart as big as the arctic north. Does his movie match it?

Lose the R-rated content and you can think of “ExtremeDays” as a mixture of “Road Rules” and “Road Trip”.

Michael Apted continues his series of documentary movies revisiting an average group of Joes and Janes every seven years. He started when they were 7. Now they’re 56.

A diamond heist! In a church, no less! Somehow we don’t think robbers Nick and Dylan will ever be the same after trying to steal from God in this faith-based video release.

Jules Verne’s 19th century tale of adventure and invention gets a 21st century facelift, à la Jackie Chan.

NBC’s Walmart and P&G-backed family adventure story arrived on DVD the day after it aired on TV.

Girl gets lost. Girl gets horse. Girl bonds with horse. Girl races horse. All in 45 minutes! This IMAX prequel is rich in cinematography, but woefully short on plot.

Calvin finds a pair of used basketball shoes (in a pile of donated clothes) inscribed with the initials MJ.

This made-for-TV movie from the woman who brought us Touched by an Angel gets all warm and touchy-feely about delivering a special Christmas letter … to God?

17th century painter Johannes Vermeer gets a modern-art makeover on the modern big screen.

When a hard-rocking ‘substitute teacher’ winds up filling in at a prestigious elementary school, the three R’s get changed to rock ‘n’ roll, rebellion and, on the bright side, respect for self.

A near-docudrama in which the camera watches two seventh graders go bad. Really bad.