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While This Is Spinal Tap, perhaps the greatest film satire of the past two decades, gets a limited re-release this fall, one of the evil geniuses behind that mockumentary presents Best in Show. Christopher Guest, whose last effort was the underrated Waiting for Guffman, takes on the competitive world of dog shows in this comedy starring Jim Piddock and featuring cameos from Michael McKean, Eugene Levy, and Parker Posey... Writer/director Neil LaBute's In the Company of Men and Your Friends & Neighbors achieved new levels in corrosive comedy, so it may surprise you to hear that his latest film, Nurse Betty, is ... sweet? Well, as sweet as any film that involves death by scalping. The plot, dark though it is, goes thusly: Renee Zellweger is dim and lovable Betty, a waitress who packs up for L.A. to meet her favorite soap star (Greg Kinnear) after two hit men (Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock) murder her husband (LaBute regular Aaron Eckhart)... Gwyneth Paltrow stars in Duets, a karaoke-inspired road-trip comedy directed by the Oscar winner's pop, Bruce, and also starring Huey Lewis and Andre Braugher... Tim Meadows spent nine seasons on Saturday Night Live before scoring his own feature with The Ladies Man, based on his smoove operator character and co-starring SNLers Will Ferrell and Jimmy Fallon and the original mac daddy Billy Dee Williams... Adam Sandler is the spawn of Satan (really) in Little Nicky, which casts Harvey Keitel as Lucifer and promises to do for death metal what The Wedding Singer did for Eighties pop.