Jude Law

May Induce Queasy Pleasure

Side Effects is well worth risking.

Side Effects and Collaborations

Steven Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns talk partnerships.

Paul W.S. Anderson's Fun, Frenetic Filmmaking

Resident Evil: Retribution director is now an industry titan.

Holmes, Sherlock Holmes

Everyone's favorite Victorian detective gets a Bond makeover in Game of Shadows.

Dude Looks Like a Lady: Hottest Movie Cross-Dressers

Glenn Close is finally getting her dream of playing a man on the big screen. Her upcoming movie Albert Nobbs, now slated for wide release on January 27, features Close portraying a woman who dresses as a man in 19th-century Ireland in order to get a job as a butler. This has been a passion project o ... More >>

A Boy, His Toy and the History of Cinema

Scorsese milks the 3D trend for his timeless cause in Hugo.

And Now, the Least Anticipated Movies of Fall/Winter 2011

​Pop Rocks will return Thursday. The fall/winter movie season kicked off last weekend as Contagion dominated the box office (the highly touted Warrior, not so much). I've already covered, in some depth, those releases coming up in the remainder of 2011 that might merit a closer look. We learn ... More >>

Contagion

Steven Soderbergh turns the star-studded Hollywood disaster flick on its head.

Pop Rocks: Bill Shatner And Liz Taylor -- The Throwdown

Two classic thespians at the top of their game.​This week saw two milestones in the entertainment world. The first was the 80th birthday, on Tuesday, of Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner. The second was the unsurprising yet still depressing death yesterday of one of Hollywood's last true ... More >>

Oscar Night 2011: The Live Blog!

​We are only less than three hours out from bringing you live-blogging coverage, right here, of this year's Academy Awards, and we are more than excited to take you through the night for every win, loss, awful dress, awesome dress, foible, and foul-up Hollywood throws our way.

Top 10 Musician Movie Cameos

Rocks Off has no idea why Mick Jagger might prefer Performance to Ned Kelly.​Over recent years, Rocks Off has been repeatedly surprised by the quality performances of musicians in films. Naturally, there are some duds in the mix; even Mick Jagger himself, who starred in 1970's Ned Kelly, disow ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Flame, Hollywood, Flame

Another well-adjusted Prop 8 supporter​I'm sure you've all heard the terrible news by now: Judge Vaughn "Mussolini" Walker declared California's gay marriage ban unconstitutional. Obviously I don't have to tell you what severe ramifications this will have, not only for the soul of our country ... More >>

New On DVD: Elementary, My Dear Iron Man

​With his 2009 film Sherlock Holmes, out on DVD today, Robert Downey, Jr. joins a long line of distinguished and, hmmm, sometimes odd, actors to play Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous detective. The first name that comes up is Basil Rathbone, who many consider the definitive Sherlock, making 14 ... More >>

Something's Gotta Give

Nancy Meyers can't keep making the same movie over and over again.

Be Kate Winslet Or Cameron Diaz -- But Not A Famewhore, Please -- Right Here In Houston

Remember that movie The Holiday? Strangers Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet are both single and incredibly hot, and they connect on a house-exchange website, vacation at each others' homes in LA and Surrey, and find love along the way? ABC is doing a reality-show spin-off of the extremely realistic rom ... More >>

Artist of the Week: Liz Dannemiller

No Country for Old Men, South Park: Imaginationland, Sleuth, Five Days

Six Degrees of Charlie Wilson’s War

Sleuth

Better home and garden, but not much else in Kenneth Branagh's Sleuth remake

The Joy in the Bubble

Cannes 2007 was a success, but how many of its movies will you actually get to see?

America Cannes

Art imitates life as U.S. directors command this year's fest, with only China rivaling for celluloid domination.

Yuppie Scum Meets Ravishing Refugee

Jude Law gets his urban renewal on in Minghella's dramatic dud

Hold Your Horses

Woman's Glib

The awful truth about Nancy Meyers

All the King's Men

Faithful King's adaptation drowns in ponderous metaphors

Heath in Heat

Ledger plays it straight as Casanova's lustful lead

From Major to Minor

Why the best films of 2004 look like indies but aren't

Second Run

Celebrating the overachieving, underhyped movies of 2004

Leaning Sideways

In a year when small movies came up big, picking the best was a Payne

Crash and Yearn

Howard Hughes gets what he wants, in this case a fun and loving biopic

Sour Lemony

Jim Carrey is in fine form, but the rest of Snicket is less fortunate

Closer to Fine

Urban savages wage war over sex in Mike Nichols's dreadfully funny new film

Candy Caine

Jude Law's Alfie puts a pretty face on what was an ugly story

Say Wha? Say Why?

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

Vile with a Smile

Stephen Fry masterfully transcribes the wit of Waugh to the big screen

Days of Future Passed

Sky Captain zooms back to a tomorrow that never was

His Guy Friday

A gay movie buff takes tips from Cary Grant

Burning Bright

Twin tigers light up the screen in Two Brothers

The Sorrow and the Pity

In a year of big-screen sadness, our critics comfort those who triumphed

A Mountainous Achievement

Cold Mountain sets the new standard for Civil War drama on-screen

Simulation Number One

Simone teaches us an important lesson: Movies aren't real, duh

One-Way Ticket

Tom Hanks and Paul Newman are on the bloody, brilliant Road to Perdition

E.T. the Extra-Tutorial

Kubrick seems to guide Spielberg's hand in the ponderous A.I.

Kiss of Death

A needless love triangle deflates the tense sniper showdown in Gates

Great Pods

Comic eXistenZ turns erotic mind games into sigh-fi

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