Tyler Perry Will Buy, Demolish Your Dream House
A bittersweet story in the Sunday NYT recounted the sale of Dean Gardens, an Atlanta estate known more for its gaudy, tacky, rich-person excesses (and an 18-hole golf…
'I'll Cut Your Fingers Off!': Mad Men Recapped
The Japanese are coming! It should be cause for celebration at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, but instead served as the trigger for an epic orgy of scheming, loathing and…
Movieline's Week in Review: Precious Bodily Fluids
If ever there were a time I wished we could review the week in 3D, this would be it. Culture flew at us every which way from every possible... ugh, I can't even talk…
Now Playing: Stephanie Zacharek's Video Review of The Switch
It's one of five films opening in a congested late-summer dumping grounds -- but is that really the fate the Jennifer Aniston/Jason Bateman comedy The Switch deserves…
Brian Grazer Shows Up as Random Old Man in Age-Advancement Ad
An alert reader today sent over a Web ad for something called MakeMeOld.com, whose awesome business model entails customers spending up to $20 per month for the…
Harry Knowles Returns From Bi-Curious Brink With Overheated Piranha 3D Review
From Vampires Suck to Social Network and now Piranha 3D, it's All-Critic Day at Movieline! But Harry Knowles deserves it: While we may never know what inspired his…
First Social Network Review is a Rave
Scott Foundas has the first review of David Fincher's Social Network, and not surprisingly (considering Foundas is on the New York Film Festival programming committee…
Trolls Retaliate After Rogue Critic Ruins Vampires Suck's Precious 0% Approval Rating
RIP film culture, c. 1891 - 2010. It has come to this: Saddened and aggrieved by one critic's approval of the once-unanimously loathed parody flick Vampires Suck, a…
Weekend Forecast: Who Has the Juice to Wipe Out The Expendables?
Hint: It's a trick question. Which isn't to say there might not be a few surprises in today's Weekend Forecast, but you're going to need to see some serious attrition…
Remember When J.J. Abrams Confessed His Mel Gibson Man-Crush?
Seriously: Movieline's Vault is hiding some serious magic from 1992. How about what I presume is the first in-depth profile of J.J. Abrams, then 26 and rich from his…
Tom Cruise on Benjamin Button, and More 1992 Rarities From Movieline's Vault
It's that time of the week, Dear Reader, when we all make a field trip out of the office and dowwwwwwn to the refurbished Vault at Movieline HQ, where another year of…
Guess Which Movie is Flirting With a Rare 0% on Rotten Tomatoes?
Of the hundreds of films reviewed and ranked each year at Rotten Tomatoes, only a handful make it into theaters with the spectacular disapproval of every critic who laid…
Latest Batman 3 Viral Marketing Involves Stealing Poor Schmuck's Taco Bell
You knew that Batman had landed in a pretty bleak place at the end of The Dark Knight, but no one knew quite how bleak until this week, when the Caped Crusader hit…
Nervous Lake Havasu Officials Emphasize They're Piranha-Free
Piranha 3D may have pumped $18 million into the economy around Lake Havasu, Arizona, but it also appears to have made very stupid tourists very scared. "One woman was…
Fake Last Exorcism Attack on Chatroulette Still Kind of Funny
Unless there's some terms-of-service stipulation that entitles studios to use Chatroulette users' likenesses in marketing campaigns, let's just presume that everything…
