“Numb3rs: The Final Season”
Davis Krumholtz changes the nerd image of a math wizard with his portrayal of Charlie Eppes on the canceled CBS series. The show proves smart can be cool.

Not only does his character have fashion sense, he has a hot girlfriend and she’s as smart — or smarter — than anyone on the show. The couple use their supersize brains to help the FBI fight crime.

The show is a clever blend of police drama with mathematics. Krumholtz made the math work while Rob Morrow was equally as convincing as his FBI brother.

The sum of their work makes “Numb3rs” a real viewing positive.
“Date Night”

Steve Carell and Tina Fey are an average suburban couple whose “date night” on the town in New York City goes horribly awry.

Director Shawn Levy shows an inability to handle comic timing, creating a movie that is uneven in tempo. It’s a perfect storm of bad moviemaking: weak actors, vacuous script and unskilled direction.

Josh Klausner’s regurgitation of words, which passes as the script, depends entirely on the idea everyone on the planet is a total moron. Viewers have to give some ground with logic when it comes to light comedies. But having a couple make such an endless string of inane decisions is sloppy and lazy writing.

It’s so awful even the bloopers at the end aren’t funny.

Also new on DVD
“Death at a Funeral”
Family secrets are revealed at a funeral. Chris Rock stars.
“La Mission”
Benjamin Bratt plays a man who has survived by his fists but now must trust his heart.
“Letters to God”
While battling cancer a boy begins to write to God.
“Trauma: Season 1”
Derek Luke stars in this short-lived TV series about emergency responders.
“Multiple Sarcasms”
A man (Timothy Hutton) faces a series of mid-life miscues.
“The Joneses”
David Duchovny and Demi Moore head a trend-setting family involved in a marketing scheme.
“Adam-12: Season Five”
Martin Milner and Kent McCord star in this police drama from the 1972-73 season.
— McClatchy Newspapers