Elizabeth: The Golden Age (directed by Shekhar Kapur) Ever since she dazzled audiences in 1998 with her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I, it's been hard not to think there's something naturally regal about actress Cate Blanchett. Now Blanchett has returned to her Oscar-nominated role in a sequel Elizabeth: The Golden Age with the same director and a similar cast. But will lightening strike twice? Maybe the expectation level was too high, but while Elizabeth the......

New York mid-December always smells vaguely of pine and peppermint, despite our recent springtime temperatures. Bring that cozy holiday feeling with you into the cineplex for a couple of new feel-good holiday movies. Will Smith will tug at your heart strings big time as the struggling dad trying to become a stockbroker in The Pursuit of Happyness. Set in the '70s in San Francisco, Smith plays Chris Gardner, a door to door medical equipment salesman......

Two quite controversial and buzzed about movies hit New York theaters this weekend. So far the critical opinion of raving lunatic Mel Gibson's new foreign language feature, Apocalypto, seems to be pretty favorable. The movie about a Mayan family man and the invading nearby tribe, sounds like it is painstakingly composed but has quite a bit of gratuitous, sadistic violence. Lisa Schwartzbaum in EW even calls it "the weirdest, most violent movie of the year,"......

- One pedestrian killed, another injured, as a car lost control off the Manhattan Bridge over the weekend and a woman was killed this morning by a truck making a turn in Brooklyn - Forgotten NY goes to Corona - Curbed asks how Lenny Kravitz is so "friggin' rich," which totally means they saw that episode of the Gilmore Girls where Lorelei wondered the exact same thing - The NY Sun has a new EMT......

You know it's the Oscars when P. Diddy busts out the velvet suit! Gothamist loves the Oscars, and we're going to attempt to do a little liveblogging. We might need to order a vat of caffeine and an EMT team at the ready; not because Chris Rock will be boring, but because we think that Gil Cates might kill us with his newfangled ideas and because we're meh about this year's nominees in the big......

Man, it had been so long since America had a good lip-syncing controversy to talk about, so thanks Lorne Michaels, Marci Klein and Joe Simpson! Everyone is buzzing about Ashlee Simpson, the "punkier" (but only in that pre-fab, third generation Avril Lavigne, Urban Outfitters way) sister of Jessica Simpson. Ashlee was either punk'd or revealed on Saturday Night Live when, during her second song, someone played the wrong vocal track (what played was Pieces......

MSNBC's Scoop columnist Jeannette Wells would like to bring to attention the male celebrity slut, namely Ben Affleck (Gwyneth reportedly said Ben Affleck's ideal woman would be a stripper with a beer in each hand), Colin Farrell (so true, every other statement he makes is about doing this girl or that girl - or getting drunk - and sadly, Gothamist loves him for it), Jude Law, Justin Timberlake, and Carson Daly. (We'd like to add......

Gothamist has been thinking about Jude Law and his recently announced wishes to divorce actress Sadie Frost. See, for some reason, Gothamist has paid attention to various Jude Law interviews and features, and we know that he has a tattoo that says "You came along to turn on everyone sexy Sadie" (yes, the Beatles song). He can either go the Angelina Jolie route and get it partially removed. Or he can go to the Johnny......

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Ever since American laid on eyes on him in The Talented Mr. Ripley, Jude Law has been an object of desire for both men and women. If British tabloid The Sun is to be believed, Law and wife Sadie Frost are divorcing. This comes after reports that Frost, best known for a small part in Bram Stoker's Dracula or as Jude Law's wife, was in the hospital for post-partum depression. Claims that Law is......