That novelty, alas, was not enough for some critics, including the London Times's roundly unimpressed Stephen Dalton:

Shot in photographers' studios with nothing more than a green screen backdrop, Rage is her lowest budget production to date. It is also defiantly uncinematic, entirely composed of monologues, with all action off screen. Structured as a series of video confessionals, it feels like a filmed stage play or even an expanded radio drama.

Law has fun with his character, Minx, a narcissistic model who sports a range of outlandish wigs and an inexplicably variable accent. [...] As a light comedy Rage is a partial success, but as a treatise on the dynamics of power and powerlessness it lacks depth or bite.

The frowny faces at Screen Daily ("It's just as well Jude Law looks good as a transsexual. Because there's little else on offer for the audience") and indieWIRE ("[W]ould exclude all but the most dedicated arthouse audiences") seem to concur. It's too bad; you'd think a man of Law's totemic, penis-rescuing stature would command even the harshest critics' goodwill for at least a few stinkers. Here's hoping the later reviews keep his on- and off-screen bravery in mind before further half-hearted dismissals.

• 'Rage,' Berlin Film Festival [The Times]

Law's transformation was unveiled by gender-bending auteur Sally Potter (Orlando), who cast Law in her fashion world-set story Rage, which is premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival this month. Said the director:

Jude Law, whose beauty has sometimes been held against him as an actor, made the courageous decision to accept the role of Minx - a "celebrity super-model" and took on a kind of hyper-beauty for this persona... a ‘female' beauty which gradually unravels as the story unfolds.

Strangely, the more he became a ‘she', coiffed and made-up - the more naked was his performance. There was great strength in his willingness to make himself vulnerable. It was an extraordinarily intense part of the shoot.

Now that Law has clearly qualified himself to serve as the final celebrity judge on RuPaul's Drag Race, we hope that he has practiced a fierce, lip-synched rendition of Fergie's Clumsy with which to wow the Berlin audience. And if his cell phone buzzes mid-performance thanks to a newly curious, willing-to-rekindle Lindsay Lohan, we advise him to just ignore it and keep on sashaying. You better work!

• Beauty [Sally Potter]

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Another day, another Mileuary celebration for Disney mega star Miley Cyrus at West Hollywood sweet spot, Millions of Shakes. Mileuary is a month long celebration of all things Miley including a party at Disneyland and trips to the local ice cream parlor. Cyrus believes that she has planned one heck of a party on which to end Mileuary. Cyrus said, “I rented out the club Rage for the final event and we’re going to go off like no other. Milkshakes for everybody in West Hollywood that night. Drink it up.”

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