BIG SCREEN

The Hangover (R): May is too early to proclaim any movie the funniest of the year, but for sheer lowbrow, R-rated antics, filmmakers will have a hard time topping director Todd (Old School) Phillips' raucous comedy. It's about four friends (including Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms) who must retrace their steps the morning after a long night of hard partying in Las Vegas and figure out, for example, why there's a tiger in their bathroom.

Land of the Lost (PG-13): Will Ferrell, Anna Friel and Danny McBride co-star in this big-screen reimagining of the 1970s TV series about a family that travels back in time to the dinosaur era. Because there are just too many damn original ideas floating around Hollywood.

Easy Virtue (PG-13): Jessica Biel woos a younger man (Ben Barnes) and shocks his British parents (Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas) in this adaptation of an Oscar Wilde play.

My Life in Ruins (PG-13): A history instructor (Nia Vardalos of My Big Fat Greek Wedding) who can't land a teaching job works as a travel agent and leads a group of stereotypes, I mean tourists, through the ancient wonders of Greece.

-- RENE RODRIGUEZ

Burn Notice (9 p.m. Thursday, USA) -- I don't like to throw around superlatives, but without hesitation I will say that Burn Notice, USA's action comedy about a blacklisted spy, is absolutely the best TV show ever made in Coconut Grove this century. As it returns for a third season, the CIA is no longer mad at out-in-the-cold spy Michael Weston . . . but the Miami cops are. And if you've seen Dexter, you know that's much, much worse.

Stagecoach (10 p.m. Monday, AMC) -- John Ford's classic 1939 Western about a group of troubled passengers on a dangerous cross-country trip provided the template for everything from Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat to Joss Whedon's Firefly. And it's got John Wayne, too.

The Listener (9 p.m. Thursday, NBC) -- Finally, a doctor who tells you where it hurts. In this Canadian import, Craig Olejnik (The Timekeeper) plays a paramedic with telepathic abilities, apparently one of the little-understood benefits of socialized health care.

Royal Pains (10 p.m. Thursday, USA) -- USA Network may be getting a little carried away with this whole blacklisting thing. In this new comedy drama, Mark Feuerstein (Good Morning, Miami) plays a doctor blacklisted in New York City who's forced to move to the Hamptons and treat rich hot chicks: Grapes of Wrath for the millennial generation. Paulo Costanzo (Joey) plays his sidekick brother.

-- GLENN GARVIN

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