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In Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' the little guy is the one to keep your eye on

The world of childhood, according to many movies and TV shows, is full of preternaturally cheery moppets who sing and dance and make calculated wisecracks. That's not the world inhabited by sixth-grader Greg Heffley, the hero of the bestselling "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" books.

Movies for Grownups

Awards season is over, and now that the tuxes and Dior dresses have been put back in mothballs, the big Oscar winners are all rushing onto DVD to cash in on the publicity: "The Blind Side," "The Young Victoria" and "Precious" are just a few of the Academy Award Contenders turning up on home video. But you'll also find some superbly grownup woulda-coulda-shoulda films that were inexcusably passed over by Oscar:

The Green Zone' debacle: Why it really hurts Universal

It's no secret that Universal is going to take a bath on "Green Zone," which cost upwards of $100 million to make - Time's Richard Corliss has it at $130 million - and only did $14.3 million in its opening weekend. That's epic flop territory.

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