Demi Moore

Chain of Command

A Few Good Men at the Alley delivers strong performances while showing the perils of unsupervised power.

A Few Good Men

10 Movie Songs We Can't Hear Without Thinking Of Sex

While we at Rocks Off boast many obsessions and vices (we'll call them "hobbies"), a few choice ones unashamedly top our list. If you perverted pop-culture junkies agree that sex, music, and movies are among life's simplest and most necessary pleasures, then keep reading. If you still blush during s ... More >>

Ain't Nobody Better: The LL Cool J Valentine's Day Playlist

​ Once upon a time, LL Cool J was merely a Kangol wearing rapper who aimed for the ladies long before urban radio knew of such things from rappers. Now, he's on CBS Tuesdays on an NCIS spinoff and is hosting The Grammys this year. Not bad for someone I thought would shrink into musical obscurity a ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian -- Can the Celebrity Marriage Be Saved?

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. Russell Brand stands to land $20 million or more from his divorce from wife Katy Perry, reports said Monday. The British actor and comedian told New York magazine last year that he and Perry did not sign a prenuptial agreement. And since the two were marr ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Is No Celebrity Marriage Sacred?

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. Russell Brand stands to land $20 million or more from his divorce from wife Katy Perry, reports said Monday. The British actor and comedian told New York magazine last year that he and Perry did not sign a prenuptial agreement. And since the two were marr ... More >>

Pop Rocks: A Brief Cinematic History of Lachrymatory Agents

By now you've seen the photographs and videos from UC Davis last Friday, where brave campus police officers defended themselves from a group of seated and docile OWS protestors the only way their extended law enforcement training would allow: by dousing them in pepper spray. The chancellor of the ... More >>

Pop Rocks: A Cinematic History of Pepper Spray

By now you've seen the photographs and videos from UC Davis last Friday, where brave campus police officers defended themselves from a group of seated and docile OWS protestors the only way their extended law enforcement training would allow: by dousing them in pepper spray. The chancellor of the ... More >>

Is J Lo the Calmest Driver Ever?: Five Questions About Current TV Ads

We got some questions.​Given the confluence of football season and the World Series, we're watching a lot of TV these days. Unfortunately, there's often not something to switch to during commercial breaks, so we're seeing more ads than usual. They've left us with a few questions we hope the w ... More >>

Too Late to Succeed

Dramatizing the financial crisis, tone-deaf to the times, in Margin Call.

Pop Rocks: We Must Avenge Patrick Swayze

​Assholes: Surf thriller "Point Break" will get a modern update by Alcon and Warner Bros., much to fans' chagrin. According to Deadline.com, the new version will be set in the world of extreme sports. Kurt Wimmer ("Salt," the upcoming "Total Recall" remake) has written the script for the ne ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Basic Cable Blues -- The 10 Movies You Will Always Watch When They Come On

​You know the feeling: it's 11 p.m., you're lying half-conscious on your couch and thinking tonight -- tonight -- is the night you're finally going to go to bed before midnight and get a decent night's sleep. Maybe this will be start of a new chapter in your life, one in which you no longer cl ... More >>

14 Things You Didn't Know About Rick Springfield

2. Rick Springfield is a stone cold sex fiend... ​In recent years, many musicians have put down their instruments (at least temporarily) and picked up the computer keyboard to produce some pretty revelatory memoirs. And in one case, perhaps too revelatory - Billy Joel recently pulled the plug ... More >>

Ten '90s Movies That Spurred Our Sexual Awakenings

THE SANDLOT??? Oh yeah: Read on​A few weeks back, Jeff Balke chronicled the five `80's movie scenes that spurred his age group's sexual awakenings. The movies that "caused a stirring in my loins" as he said, at that precocious young age where the world is an awfully confusing and sexy place. ... More >>

The Twitterverse

More than just cyberspace, the tweet life inspires people to make friends and adopt causes in person. It has a few problems, too.

43rd WorldFest International Independent Film Festival

Enjoy ten days of cinematic bliss

A Preview Of The 2010 WorldFest, And A Chance To Win Big And See Stuff For Free

The 43rd annual WorldFest kicks off this Friday. The "fiercely independent" film festival is one of the oldest international fests in the country, and the oldest independent festival in the world. Many directors you may have heard of received their first awards here, including Steven Spielberg, Joh ... More >>

For National Boss Day: The Five Most Misundrestoor Bosses In The Movies

It's National Boss Day, because apparently getting more weeks of vacation, a higher salary, and an actual office with privacy isn't enough. You can be forgiven if it slipped your mind. After all, you were probably busy using the phone in your cramped, depressing cubicle to argue semi-publicly with ... More >>

Coco Puff

Chanel hagiography is so last season.

Halloween Countdown Part 1: The Seven Most Cliched Costumes

Halloween is coming, and that means many, many costuming mistakes will be made by normally sane adults. To help stop this scourge, each Thursday we will be offering tips and analysis of what to avoid, or possibly what to do. It seems that every year Halloween becomes less and less about scaring othe ... More >>

Five Best Strip-Club Movies

In concluding our tribute to the recently departed Penthouse Club, and as a service to future generations who may never know the joys of spending $9.50 for a Miller Lite or learn what a "bottle charge" is, here are some of the more memorable movies where strip joints serve as the main setting.5. Va ... More >>

Exclusive! Uncovered Vanity Fair Memo to Annie Leibovitz

Directors Series: Stanley Kubrick, American Gangster, Mr. Brooks, Days of Heaven

Drenched In Blog: The Humpty Blog

Get Inside. It's Summertime!

Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

Mr. Brooks

Lame psych thriller another low point for Mr. Costner

Heart Attack

Attempting romantic comedy, Sir Ridley Scott conquers neither.

That Sinking Feeling

Coast Guard epic succumbs to watery clichés

Beyond Salad Bowls

Welcome to Hooters

Jimmy Buffett inexplicably leads a kid movie to the big screen

Rocky Waters

Annapolis salutes all the classic boxing clichés

Oh, the Horror!

Kick off the fall season with a frightful film festival and some freaky props

Style Council

Macy's Impulse party is all about chic shopping

If That Ain't Country

Stampeding horses and twangy riffs at the HMNS

Saves the Day/ Taking Back Sunday, with Moneen

Saturday, November 1

Back Door to History

Thank J.R. Quinn for the gay celebrations

Fallen Angels

Charlie’s high-flying heroines kick ass, but not the sequel syndrome

Think Different

Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies requires a brain cell or two?

Better in Pairs

Generally a letdown, the year in film offered some well-crafted works that are best viewed as double features

Click Art

Three photographers transcend the cult of personality with their revealing celebrity portraits

Dream On

Filmmakers responsible for the gimmicky Passion of Mind should have slept on the concept a little longer

Butch-ered

G.I. Jane traps a testosterone-poisoned lunkhead in Demi Moore's body

Phenomena

Good-bye to Summer

What this year's movies portend for next year

Letters

Hold the Creamed Corn

Striptease captures the essence of Carl Hiaasen's darkly funny novel

Beat the Heat!

1996 Summer Guide

Female Trouble

Two offbeat films chronicle three offbeat young women's struggles

Hot and Bothersome

Though hooey on harassment, Disclosure knows how to entertain

Celebrity Photographer, Photographer Celebrity

Talking with Annie Leibovitz about the manufacture of cultural identity and the American dream