While Dark Knight bows out from the top spot to make room for the star power of Tropic Thunder, it holds its place as the number two domestic blockbuster of all-time and the number one global smash of this year.

The unstoppable box office superhero The Dark Knight once again defeated all foes and spent its fourth consecutive weekend at number one becoming the first film in nearly five years to accomplish the fourpeat. With the gold medal going to Batman, Seth Rogen and James Franco shared the silver with their new stoner comedy Pineapple Express which posted a solid five-day debut.

The Dark Knight won't losen its grip on the box office gold, but the Mummy is a very close silver.

It's a monster week for DVD lovers, as we'll see tons of new movies, television shows, and direct-to-video flicks hit shelves. Read on for the week's highs (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Gossip Girl Season One) and lows (poker drama Deal, a new Crispin Glover creep-out) and check out great exclusive videos from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and The Scorpion King 2!

This week we bring you an exclusive look from the DVD release of Smart People, starring Dennis Quaid and Ellen Page as a father and daughter whose intellect outweighs their social graces; imagine a higher-strung Juno obsessed with high test scores instead of hamburger phones. Also check out what's new on DVD: Stephen Chow's CJ7, new seasons of South Park, The Wire, and Prison Break, and the ickiest father-daughter romance of the week, starring David Duchovny and Juno sidekick Olivia Thirlby.

Sparred by the triumphant onscreen return of a certain Johnny Rico, we turn our DVD-minded focus to a few stars of yesterday popping up in new DVD releases this week: Casper van Dien, Christopher Lambert, and Heather Graham. Also, check out this week's geek-tastic new releases: a Starship Troopers box set, Code Monkeys, and Captain James Tiberius Kirk's restored adventures aboard the Starship Enterprise.

In Part II of our conversation with former Village Voice critic Nathan Lee, we delve deeper into his recent public break with the Voice and get his thoughts on the future of film criticism...and it doesn't look pretty.

For better or worse, recently departed Village Voice writer Nathan Lee has become something of a poster boy for the disappearance of the film critic. Read on for the first in our two-part interview with the incredibly intelligent, delightfully profane critic in which Lee answers our Meet a Critic questionnaire.

MSNBC's Alonso Duralde believes in having informed opinions --so rest assured his recommendations of notorious turkeys like Xanadu and The Apple come well researched. More with the author, film critic, and former Advocate editor inside!

This week, The Rocker hits theaters, telling the tale of a drummer who joins a teenage band years after getting kicked out of a monster rock group. With that in mind, we thought it was high time we took a look at some of the greatest fake rockers and rappers in movie history.

The animated Clone Wars releases into theaters this Friday, and though rebel critics may be giving it a current drubbing, Star Wars releases are always pop culture events. Especially when this one looks to be series' final theatrical release for the foreseeable future. Rotten Tomatoes takes stock of the George Lucas franchise, arranging the installment of history's most celebrated space opera by Tomatometer.

What are the most interesting portrayals of marijuana users out there, and how many of them are in movies actually classified as a stoner movie? Read on to check out Rotten Tomatoes' findings.

This week's Ketchup bottle brings news about Kung Fu Panda 2, Madagascar 3, development news about the Wheel of Time series, and casting news about Mike Myers and Billy Bob Thornton.

This week's Ketchup brings casting news for Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, and Natalie Portman, plus rumors about Lethal Weapon 5 and Goonies 2.

In this week's Weekly Ketchup, we've got the latest spin-offs, remakes and trilogies, and Disney's lofty plan for a video game adaptation.

One documentary from the US last year spoke to avid videogamers more than any other, and in the process told a brilliantly human story about good, evil and Donkey Kong. In this week's Further Reading, Kim Newman celebrates The King of Kong.

The Dark Knight is setting cinemas alight all over the world, but, as Kim Newman discovers, there are other Batman movies that aren't quite so well known... James Batman - which crosses the caped crusader with suave spy James Bond - probably didn't attract much Oscar buzz, nor was the word "masterpiece" mentioned in its reviews, but for completists, is it worth seeing? Does the Filipino film industry's flouting of international copyright law deliver a treat?

RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his 19th column, Kim explores an earlier take on the assassination of Jesse James, as Samuel Fuller's first feature casts John Ireland in a powerful performance as Robert Ford years before Casey Affleck joined the party.