I must admit I do carry a soft spot for a good romantic comedy. Casting the charming Isla Fisher only increases its odds for mass appeal. Shopaholic however, is terrible.

Isla Fisher plays Becky Bloomwood, the not-at-all qualified journalist for a financial magazine who writes an anonymous column about managing your money. Of course, Bloomberg is thousands of dollars in debt due to her shopping habit. The villain in the story is a debt collector named Derek Smeath. Becky Bloomwood is Smeath’s Moby Dick and stops at nothing to try to collect her debt.

On top of this, Becky juggles falling for her boss, secretly trying to weasel into her dream job at a fashion magazine and trying to cover up her shopaholic-ism… Needless to say, Bloomwood’s web of lies falls apart in the most improbable way possible.

This movie has no redeeming qualities. Poor Isla Fisher couldn’t save this sinking ship. It’s fine to push the realm of reality in a romantic comedy but this one seems to go where most cartoons wouldn’t ever dare.

The DVD comes with a bonus digital copy for you to throw on your lap top or iPhone, but, lets be honest – it would be a waste of valuable hard drive space.

• Drea de Matteo is joining the cast of “Desperate Housewives” as the head of a new Italian family moving into Wysteria Lane.
• Evan Rachel Wood (Mary Jane Watson) and Alan Cummings (Green Goblin) have been added to the Spider-Man musical.
• HBO viewers seem to be hung up on “Hung.” The new drama was the most-watched series debut in two years.
• Vampire Weekend’s second album will have a California feel. “These songs would be perfect for driving up the Pacific coast,” guitar-keyboardist Rostam Batmangli told Rolling Stone.
• Julia Stiles will make her Broadway debut in the revival of David Mamet’s “Oleanna,” opening Oct. 11 at the Golden Theater.
• Finally. “Ally McBeal” is coming out on DVD.

Fans know that Max Weinberg left the Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien last week for a four week European tour with Bruce Springsteen, but Weinberg’s cryptic Facebook status is now raising some eyebrows.

Sinking ship…..?

U2 kicked off its 360° Tour in Barcelona on Tuesday night. The 90,000 fans also got the first look at the band’s massive new stage set-up — dubbed the Claw — anchored in the middle of the field and featuring a giant 360 video screen. (Take the interactive tour at U2’s official Website)

How’s this for a tribute: Michael Jackson in butter. Iowa State Fair organizers have announced that in addition to their annual butter cow statute, there would be one of the pop music icon who died last week. Both the butter sculptures will be on display in a 40-degree cooler throughout the fair from Aug. 13 to 23 in Des Moines. Organizers say Jackson has been to the Iowa State Fair. He performed there twice with the Jackson Five in 1971.

I will see this movie because it seems witty and a chubby Matt Damon makes me feel better about myself.
Summer TIme, and the living is eaaaaaaasy

This movie used to be called z’This Side of the Truth’ but apparently “The Invention of Lying” is more poster friendly…
watch it