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And now, a look at a few of the latest movie trailers to hit the web:

It's fashionable to lament the state of the TV theme song. Gone are the days when a show's whole premise was summed up in musical verse before every episode. Now we have Lost and it's single chord. And though I actually like Lost's simple spooky chime and have recently highlighted the 12 Best TV Theme Songs From Current Shows, there's no denying we're past the golden age of the TV show theme song. Take a look at the following list, and let me know where I'm wrong. I've included music without words, but I skipped over shows that used already popularized tunes like "The William Tell Overture" from The Lone Ranger and "Stand" from Get a Life.

40. The Rockford Files - Mike Post and Peter Carpeneter
You might not know the names of Post and Carpenter, but between them they composed theme music for a mind-boggling number of shows including CHiPs, Magnum P.I., The A-Team, Hunter, Hill Street Blues, The Greatest American Hero, Doogie Howser M.D., Quantum Leap and Remington Steele. If you're in your 30s, you can claim all you want that Prince provided the soundtrack to your childhood—but it was really Mike Post.

Filmed in two weeks on a tight budget in 2006, the third and final segment of  Star Trek: Of Gods and Men slid under most non-Trekkie radars to make its online debut this month. Although the special effects are a little bit PC game circa 2000, some fans have found this independently-made Starship Enterprise adventure most enduring. At the very least, it's a free spectacle to tie them over until the studio-backed J. J. Abrams blockbuster next year.