Ryan Reynolds For The Ladies, Mayim Bialik For The Fellows

Everyone ends up somewhere. Whether it’s on bad family shows or stuck in a coffin underneath the desert or sitting through 25 more butt-numbing minutes of a movie you didn’t like the first time. Everything has its place.

Even though she’s all grown up now, Mayim Bialik just can’t get away from the teen stuff. The Blossom star has nabbed a recurring role on Brenda Hampton’s dreadful ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager. She’ll play a guidance counselor. Just like Jennie Garth does on the new, dreadful 90210. Can we say two’s a trend? [Variety]

Guys, wasn’t the problem with Watchmen that it was just too darn short? Didn’t you want even more turgid, churning blitzkrieg 80s superhero angst? Well, you’re in luck. A special 25-minutes-longer director’s cut of the film will be screened in New York, Dallas, Minneapolis, and LA a week before Comic-Con in San Diego starts. Those extra 25 minutes really ought to make the movie sing. Hopefully it’s just 25 extra minutes of hideously awkward owl-mobile sex. [THR]

Snide Canadian of the hour Ryan Reynolds is taking a slight detour from his successful career as young romantic whippersnapper and dual weapon holder to star in something dark. He’ll play the lead in Buried, about a private contractor who is kidnapped in Iraqistan and wakes up buried in a coffin with only a candle, a mobile phone, a knife, and his chiseled-like-the-glaciers-of-Baffin Bay physique to help him escape. So, two hours of Ryan Reynolds squirming around in a box. Quite a literal interpretation of what the ladies have been asking for. [Variety]

This (500) Days of Summer movie is apparently pretty good. [THR]