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Although most moviegoers would know John Fusco as the writer of such movies as Young Guns, Young Guns II, Thunderheart, and Hidalgo, some might not know that he's schooled in the art of Shaolin Kung Fu. It was Fusco's experience with the martial arts that helped him pen The Forbidden Kingdom, which became the first project that featured Jet Li and Jackie Chan together in the same film. Fusco has had an interesting career as a writer since many of his stories tap into a certain sense of spirituality, be it the days of the American Western to the Native American culture to Asian martial arts.

After becoming the TV vampire of every girl's dream in the early part of the decade as the lead character on the popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossover hit Angel, actor David Boreanaz made the leap to Fox's crime drama Bones in 2005 to take on the role of special agent Seeley Booth. As Bones returns to the Fox airwaves for a fourth season on September 3 with a two-hour premiere, the new season punctuates the fact that since Angel closed up shop in 2004, David Boreanaz has been on television for almost a decade straight.

Here's the skinny on the premiere of the new 90210 - some older fans of the original won't be able to relate to it (after all, it's not their generation anymore), some will get into the new 90210 world, some younger fans will love it, some will hate it, and there's no doubt that bitter journalists will pan the show and continue to whine because they didn't receive an advance screener prior to the premiere. Sounds a lot like high school, right?

I hate to say it, but Michael Bay was right. The controversial and critically derided director made headlines when he commented that he thought Transformers would look better on Blu-Ray. The comment was controversial because the studio that made the film, DreamWorks/Paramount was backing HD-DVD in the next-gen format war at the time. There were even crazy rumors that Bay would hold off making Transformers 2 until his movie was released on Blu-Ray.

Haven't heard of Azazel Jacobs? Trust us, in the years to come, you will. Although Azazel Jacobs has filmmaking in his blood thanks to his father Ken Jacobs, one of the most respected and pioneering avant garde filmmakers of our time, his road to becoming a director wasn't simply a chip-off-the-block journey. In fact, Azazel Jacobs' minimalistic style at this stage in his career embodies the true spirit of independent cinema, as seen in his latest film, Momma's Man.

For the past six seasons, The Shield's Walton Goggins has been a part of one of the most popular and explosive cable shows of the past decade. Now, with the The Shield about to come to an end after the seventh season, dubbed "The Final Act", Goggins is looking ahead to a future beyond TV. Leading up the Season 7 premiere of The Shield on September 2 on FX, we found Goggins at the other end of a conference call where we picked his brain on the fate of his character, what it's like to be directed by Michael Chiklis, and what he has planned for the future.

Protest is one of the things that makes me proud to be an American. Our government's often-violent response to protest provokes the opposite response. In other words, Brett Morgen's excellent documentary Chicago 10 was a rollercoaster. This is no ordinary documentary. Not only is the subject matter more prescient than Abbie Hoffman could have ever imagined, as it's hitting DVD during the convention season of a wartime election, but you really have never seen a doc quite like Chicago 10.

The Big Bang Theory on Monday nights and newly released on DVD, a show that went through a rollercoaster of quality in just one strike-shortened season. When Big Bang works, it's very, very funny. And if the comic timing could be tightened and the writing could be more consistent from week to week, it could be the answer that CBS has been looking for the last few years in their attempts to find a young audience looking for a good laugh on a Monday night. Catch up with the first season on DVD this week and decide for yourself.

In the midst of all of the success, J.J. Abrams also found time to create the upcoming and amazingly cool looking alt-sci-fi series Fringe, which makes its debut on Fox this Tuesday, September 9 at 8pm. For those fans out there who have been in mourning since The X-Files went off the air, Fringe looks like it will raise the bar even higher and give you everything and more that you've been missing for the past decade. With Fringe about to hit the airwaves, we checked into a conference call with J.J. Abrams to goods on the series straight from the man himself - from casting Joshua Jackson and how he feels about corporate conspiracies to comparing Fringe to Lost and Alias and whether he feels we're now living in the Golden Age of sci-fi.

In an age when remakes are being churned out like assembly line cookies, the fact that writer/director Diane English got a modern retelling of the 1939 comedy classic The Women off the ground and into production is a huge accomplishment. In fact, English has been trying to put the film together for the past 14 years, with a lot of starts, stops and hurdles along the way plus with several different top name actress attached. English's journey to remake the 1939 film of the same name, starring Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, and Paulette Goddard, finally ended when The Women went into production with a cast that includes Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Candice Bergen, Jada Pinkett Smith, Carrie Fisher, and Bette Midler.

First, some backstory on this week's episode of Psych called "Talk Derby to Me", which features WWE Diva Mickie James as a rollergirl and was written by Tim Meltreger, who also penned last season's episode "Dis-Lodged" and is the author of some pretty hilarious blog posts on the official Psych website over at USA Network. Back in June The Deadbolt was invited to the Vancouver set of Psych where we spent the entire day hanging with show stars James Roday and Dule Hill, Maggie Lawson, Tim Omundson, and Corbin Bernsen as they filmed "Talk Derby to Me", about a string of robberies connected to a roller derby team that sees Maggie (Juliet) go undercover as a rollergirl.

After three seasons of contestants coming close to selecting the million dollar case, Jessica Robinson became the first person in the show's history to win the top prize. If you're a fan of the show, you have to respect a girl like Jessica who has the guts to put it all on the line for the money. When put to the test, not many people can do it. What's it like to win a cool million on Dead or No Deal? The Deadbolt's Troy Rogers got the chance to find out when he talked to Robinson on a recent conference call to celebrate her win.

Play All is just as excited as you are to watch the Giants try and defend their Super Bowl title (they won't) and 90210 become a hit again (it looks like it might). Wait, what year is it? Seriously, the deja vu of early September 2008 is a little overwhelming. A classic rivalry opens the NFL season (Giants & Redskins), 90210 is back, and here we are preparing to write about Jet Li, Sam Malone, and Charlie Brown! What the hell? Everything old is new again. Strap in to the way back machine and hit Play All.

After so many fanboy friendly movies have been hailed as nearly guaranteed box-office windfalls only to either flop, break even, or become moderate successes, it's perfectly legit to explore the box office potential of Watchmen. Will fans set the bar so high that Watchmen can't possibly be as big or as successful as its fan base wants it be? I don't mean whether Watchmen will be a good film. For now I'll take Kevin Smith at his positive word since he' already checked it out and the trailer does look absolutely amazing. Instead I'm referring to the unpredictable gray area that exists between excitement from a fan base, the limitations of the film, and grounded reality that often makes it hard to gauge true box office potential.

Was Helen Hunt cursed by Woody Allen's The Curse of the Jade Scorpion? Her three films before Curse were major flicks with co-stars like Kevin Spacey, Tom Hanks, and Mel Gibson. Since that 2001 disaster, Hunt has appeared in A Good Woman, Bobby, and Then She Found Me. That's it. The sad thing is that she's still a good actress. I hope she finds a comeback role. I think she's stuck between the age that most casting agents would hire her as a love interest and the one where she could convincingly play a mother. So, what did Helen Hunt do to break out of her career doldrums?

With a great cast like the Oscar-winning Chris Cooper and Oscar-nominated Patricia Clarkson and the beautiful Rachel McAdams and stunning Pierce Brosnan, it's surprising how slow-moving Married Life ended up. Ira Sachs' film is one that I always wanted to like - I love Hitchcockian dramas and pieces about stuffed-up people coming apart - but this thing is shot and written with all the pacing of a slow-moving iceberg. And it's filmed and structured so statically that it becomes almost numbing.