Dustin Hoffman

Stand Up Guys

A blow to Al Pacino's Legacy

Movies You Should Watch: Five Oscar Losers That Were Also Worth the Win

The movies that win the Oscar for Best Picture aren't the only ones that deserve your attention. Here are five films that were nominated, but lost, that we think are worth a screening.

Luck: "You Don't Know Your Own Depth"

When word came out that David Milch was working on another series for HBO, the inevitable question arose: Would we be getting the David Milch that created the densely lyrical, critically acclaimed Deadwood? Or the David Milch responsible for the incoherent John from Cincinnati? As it turns out, Luck ... More >>

Golden Bozos: Your "Official" Live Blog For The 69th Golden Globes

I know, we're all bummed out the Texans lost. But since you've been drinking anyway, you might as well crack open another one and sit through the one awards show even the People's Choice Awards can look down its nose at. I'll be updating this entry throughout the broadcast, so refresh often and try ... More >>

Alabama Tree Killing Lunatic Is Living in His Car (w/ Guilt Admission AUDIO)

Roll Tide: The dark side​The numbers tell us college football has never been more popular. Television ratings are healthy, rogue ticket prices for the national championship game were the highest for any major sporting event ever, and the smell of murder is in the air. No, this time around it' ... More >>

Visual Acoustics

The Gang's All Here

But the Focker franchise has seen better days.

The Social Network, Now Starring Lady Gaga, Drake, ZZ Top...

​The Social Network was finally toppled at the box office this past weekend by the new Jackass 3-D, but that doesn't mean Rocks Off is done with the story chronicling the beginnings of Facebook and the rise of founder Mark Zuckerberg. You remember our film-score blog, right? When it was rele ... More >>

The Week In TV: Louis C.K. vs. Mississippi

The same face we made when trying to comprehend why people would voluntarily live in Mississippi.​The weather's terrible, I'm living off DVR'd episodes of Community, and it's possible this is all just a dream. This was the week in TV Land: • AT&T reached a deal with Rainbow Media last week ... More >>

The Graduate

"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me."

Fresh Fruit

Mango's attempts to resurrect Westheimer's bohemian past.

For April 15: Five Movies About Taxes

April 15 each year brings with it the journalistic challenge of covering yet another "last-rush filers" story, or some clever way to say that it's the deadline for getting your return in. (We still wonder if anyone's ever been prosecuted because their return had an April 16 postmark.)The subject of ... More >>

Eminem's Comeback: Yay or Nay?

So Eminem is back. Eminem. A man who is a paradox wrapped inside an enigma and served with two joints and a beer. The man has totally homophobic and misogynistic lyrics, yet he has performed with Elton John and is, by all accounts, a loving single dad to his little girl. He seems dumb as dirt in som ... More >>

For Good Friday: The Five Best Torture Scenes

Today is Good Friday, so named because it's the day they finally offed that pompous windbag from Nazareth who would just not shut up about all his "Love your brother" crap. Have you met any of my brothers?Of course, the powers-that-be decided they wouldn't just kill Jesus, they had to torture him a ... More >>

Why Robert Downey, Jr. Will Not Win for Best Supporting Actor

I finally saw Tropic Thunder this past weekend on DVD, and my God, it was hilarious. Fantastic, funny, full of Hollywood-stabbing humor, and Tom Cruise completely won back all of my respect with his part as Les Grossman. SO, that said. Robert Downey, Jr. needs to win for Best Supporting Actor thi ... More >>

Alls I’m Sayin’ is Juno Better Win Best Picture

Grace Is Gone

A Marine mom dies in Iraq

Six Degrees of Charlie Wilson’s War

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

Mr. Magorium is far less fantastical than its title

Still a P.I.M.P.

My Man-Crush on 50 Cent

Legs to Spare

Scents and Sensibility

Filming what was long deemed unfilmable, Tom Tykwer attempts to turn smell into cinema

Anchor man?

Playing against type, Will Ferrell can't quite ground this artificially whimsical romantic comedy.

Free Kicks

Once in a Lifetime remembers when soccer players lived like rock stars

The Flunk-Out

Rumor Has It... this Graduate tribute deserves no honors

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Horse Senseless

Racing Stripes is strictly for kids. More precisely, it's not for them either.

Second Run

Celebrating the overachieving, underhyped movies of 2004

Focking Wonderful

Streisand and Hoffman save a family -- and a movie, too

Peter Panache

J.M. Barrie gets a Hollywood makeover in Finding Neverland

Say Wha? Say Why?

Searching for the meaning of life in a movie that barely exists

Jet-Propelled

Zhang Yimou makes a soaring, mythic Hero out of Jet Li

Robbing Mrs. Robinson

The Graduate fails in Jerry Hall’s hands

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Think Different

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

Vig's Eleven

Edward Burns rounds up the all-stars for a Confidence game

The Kids Aren't Alright

Fledgling director Jonas Akerlund spins the next hip dope flick

That '70s Movie

Moonlight Mile wastes its setting and its star

Say Cheese

Movie producer Robert Evans preserves his golden myth in The Kid Stays in the Picture

Burn The Messenger

A little Conscience converts Joan of Arc to near comedy

All Wet

In the latest Crichton-based thriller, there's nothing to fear but Sphere itself

Press Picks

The Albanian Candidate

Wag the Dog bares its teeth at the White House

Film at 11

Mad City hammers the idiocy of TV news

Back to School

Once again, here's to you, Mrs. Robinson

Robin Hoodlum

Revenge Is... Adequate

Sleepers aims for the gut -- and misses

Darkness

A blackout scratches civilization's thin veneer

Robinson Redux

The Pallbearer follows in The Graduate's footsteps

Vile and Viral