Two high school intellects — studly Richard (Ryan Gosling) and loner Justin (Michael Pitt) — commit the perfect murder to prove their superiority over mere mortals. Salton Sea screenwriter Tony Gayton (him again) and Reversal of Fortune director Barbet Schroeder clearly want to make a modern-day thriller that draws parallels to past crimes, from the Leopold and Loeb trial in 1924 to the Dartmouth killings last year. On the other hand, star Sandra Bullock, as the cop on the case (along with her partner, played by Ben Chaplin), seems to have nothing deeper in mind than doing a sappy big-screen version of TV's CSI. She wins. Is it maybe because she's also the film's executive producer?

“Is It True”

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."