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Easygoing dialogue, a relaxed message: Wave-riding penguin mockumentary Surf's Up is PG-gentle, sweet, and laid-back like no kid flick you'll remember.

Larry Wilmore, jokingly billed as "Senior Black Correspondent" on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, worked as a writer on In Living Color and The PJ's before getting his fake-news-show gig. He also created The Bernie Mac Show.

Michael Hearst, a founder of the band One Ring Zero, put out his Songs for Ice Cream Trucks CD mostly for fun. But he's been getting calls from ice-cream truck drivers who want to use them. Some of the instruments you'll hear on the collection include glockenspiel, electronic chord organ, melodica and theremin.

Shrek the Third isn't a great hand-hold movie (action for the kiddies, pop-culture cleverness for the folks), but it's a flat-out triumph of comedy writing, and its slob-happy world view still has appeal.

Popular magazines for people of color are gaining ground in mainstream publishing. Editors of three top magazines for women of color — Essence, East West and Latina — talk about the mission of their publications.

Adrienne Shelly's comic fable, about a pie-baking genius discovering her inner strength, is by turns amusing, implausible and optimistic.

A rising-star TV reporter has a one-night stand with a guy who won't grow up; Judd Apatow's comedy is a kind of Peter-and-Wendy-get- preggers story for the 21st century.

The film version of Susan Minot's novel about two women who hear their mom's deathbed murmurs about a long-lost love — and how she killed a man in her youth. Vanessa Redgrave and Meryl Streep (plus their daughters Natasha Richardson and Mamie Gummer) combat a melodramatic script.

In our weekly lifestyle and trends segment, Newsweek entertainment reporter Allison Samuels weighs in about Angelina Jolie's controversial role as Mariane Pearl, Essence and Ebony's tabloid transition and Robin Givens' new book.

In this installment of Summary Judgment, a roundup of movie critics' verdicts from the online magazine Slate, we'll hear about Hostel: Part II Ocean's Thirteen and Surf's Up.