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On TV:
I also watch "2.5 Men" C3D, not regularly, but often, it is amusing.

I've been watching the latest season of Smallville and only getting even more disappointed and impatient with it. The writing seems lazier every episode, the ongoing story getting less and less defined and more and more delayed in getting somewhere... it never was a great show, but it's getting worse.

I'm gonna start watching Season 2 of Heroes this Friday (that's how delayed we get to see it in Latin America).
And whenever the channel executives decide to start showing the new seasons of The Office (USA, not original UK) and My Name Is Earl I will watch those.

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First movie I watched on DVD this year is 25 years old and it is much better now than it was then...

Blade Runner: The Final Cut

The definitive edition of a great movie.



The Ultimate Collector's Edition has 5 DVDs, including all the previously released versions, as well as some memorabilia.

Of course less fanatic fans of the film can get the 2-disc edition (or four disc if you can live without having the Workprint version). I still have to watch the documentary on The Making of Blade Runner (and later on all the other versions and extras!).
The visuals, remastered and enhanced, are great, the story has been edited to be what Director Ridley Scott really wanted to tell.
If you saw The Director's Cut of 1993 (I haven't... yet) this new edition might not be too different in the story, but visually it is much better according to all reviews of this DVD set I've read.

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On the silver screen:

Walt Disney's Enchanted
Family film, so I watched it with my family, over the holiday break (but the youngest was a 15 year old niece).
Entertaining, a fairy-tale princess is cast into the real world, "where there are no happy endings", but of course it has a Disney-Happy ending.

Across The Universe
Another I went to see with family. A love story set to the songs of The Beatles. If you are an orthodox worshiper of The Beatles the arrangements might seem heresy at times. As noted elsewhere I don't worship at The Beatles altar, but I can enjoy their songs occasionally. It was OK, but at times too artsy-fartsy for its own good. Musicals with original music have the advantage that script and song writing go hand in hand. For this one is obvious that some scenes had to be fit to the songs. The appearance of Bono, BTW seemed a bit superfluous.
Coincidentally, the very day after watching the movie I went to a department store and their ambient music for the day was the soundtrack to Across The Universe. That made me realize how the arrangements of the songs were tied to the images, without that context many of the songs sounded too odd.