Natalie Guevara

If you're the lead star of a film titled In Bruges, it's only natural that press time leads to loads of questions about, well, Bruges. Inquiring minds want to know what it's like to wander around Belgium's most well-preserved medieval city, a locale so arresting that, no matter where you set the camera, the cobblestone and phantasmagoric architecture outperform you every single time. "It was beautiful," Colin Farrell admitted, "but ... we were right in the middle of winter, so it was cold and it was dark at past three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and I found it suitably depressing."

Given the highly-charged political and racial climate currently surrounding Columbia—not to mention the Supreme Court's recent refusal to hear the case of a German citizen who claims he was abducted and tortured by CIA agents while imprisoned in Afghanistan—a film such as the torture-by-proxy thriller Rendition, which opened Friday, could not have arrived at a more opportune time.

In town last week to promote their concert documentary, Shine a Light, the Rolling Stones found themselves in a very posh and decidedly un-rock 'n' roll conference room in the Palace Hotel on Madison Avenue. Sitting before a crowd of adoring media, they seemed both amused and a little embarrassed by the spectacle, but they played along like champs.

Lonely Hearts shows all the signs of an average true-crime film: a promotional poster baring the images of its solemn-faced stars; a sleek, neo-noir look and feel; fast-paced criminal hijinks; and Tony Soprano providing voice-over narration.