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If nothing else -- which is not to say, mind you, that it is nothing else -- Steven Knight's "Locke" must surely rank among the most doggedly literal road movies of all time. So many titles within that famed subgenre stray far from the defining location: into motel bedrooms, into exterior shootouts, into any number of off-road travel routes. Not "Locke," which plants its eponymous protagonist behind the wheel and keeps him there for 80-odd minutes -- not a challenging stretch of time for any car trip, but an imposing test for filmmaker and actor alike. In "Locke," a lone man drives a hundred or so miles from Birmingham to London and makes a few phone calls; that is what happens. Somehow, amid all this, an urgent domestic melodrama plays out on the tarmac, changing the course of several unseen lives as the visible figure at the center of it all,...

From Fred and Ginger to Jennifer and Ashton, romantic comedies used to be one of the safest bets in Hollywood. But it seems that rom is just not into com any more

Is it the end for the romcom? You can imagine the celebrity mag headlines: "Romcom's relationship on the rocks?" "Com: I'm just not that into Rom" "Rom: Com doesn't make me laugh any more."

After all, who says romance and comedy go together like a horse and carriage? It seems to be a chiselled Hollywood commandment that the two shall be forever conjoined in cinematic matrimony, but perhaps it's time they went their separate ways. Sure, they got off to a great start: in those early years it was all fun and games and sparkling repartee, but recently they haven't quite looked the happy couple; the spark just hasn't been there.

They've been stuck in the same repetitive formula: boy meets girl,...

Kathy Griffin told Jimmy Kimmel she has one goal for her much-awaited annual stint on CNN's New Year's celebration: to get Anderson Cooper ousted from the network.

Griffin appeared on Kimmel's Wednesday show and claimed CNN executives "hate me." (Perhaps it's all of that trouble she keeps causing them?)

Griffin then told Kimmel what she really hoped to get out of her upcoming appearance.

"My first goal is to get Anderson fired," she said. "Literally, before midnight, somebody at CNN says, 'buddy, you're out.'" She also said she wanted to give Cooper a roofie, expose herself and drunk dial Wolf Blitzer. All in a night's work, we suppose.

MTV Shows

Kathy Griffin stayed on the air, Snooki kept it classy and New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys made us all check our calendars. Some highlights of New Year's Eve on TV:

Snooki, a ball, insert your own joke here

On the one hand, after watching MTV's Snooki ball drop it's hard to understand why the Times Square people were so miffed at the prospect of the pocket-sized "Jersey Shore" star stealing the traditional countdown's thunder. Because it was L-a-m-e. On the other hand, it was so lame that it's hard to imagine that the hordes in midtown Manhattan would have even noticed.

MTV's makeshift arrangement in Seaside Heights, N.J., turned out to be pretty much the definition of anticlimactic. While the rest of the "Jersey Shore" cast mugged with host Whitney Cummings in Times Square, the ever-classy Snooki -- clad in a leopard-print coat...

Mmm, yummy—and the burger looks pretty good, too! Former Girls Next Door girl Holly Madison decided to fuel up at an In-n-out in Los Angeles on Thursday night, chowing down with gusto as she stuffed her face full of cow flesh. Oh, and she was also picked up by a couple of shirtless guys in the parking lot. All in a night's work, we suppose... Click through the photo gallery to see Holly Madison caught with the meat in her mouth.