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Leonardo DiCaprio's 15 Best Roles

Leonardo DiCaprio has come a long way since his stint as a teen heartthrob on Growing Pains alongside fellow Tiger Beat love interest Kirk Cameron.  read more

Oscar nominees announced: Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader and Benjamin Button amongst highlights

Slumdog Millionaire and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button took their anointed places and talk of a populist uprising was silenced with The Dark Knight largely snubbed as the Oscar nominations were announced this morning. ...  read more

Revolutionary Road

Nearly a decade after director Sam Mendes crafted American Beauty...  read more

Golden Globe nominations announced

After the awkward press conference that became of last year’s Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association rolled out the expected nominees this morning for a show that is now guaranteed to draw all the names who shunned it last year....  read more

Oscar Buzz: Who's ahead in this year's key races?

There's a surprisingly gargantuan Internet faction dedicated to predicting who will be up for film's most coveted prize, the Academy Award. Publications like Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Times and New York Times all have Oscar blogs that obsessively trail the fluctuations in buzz amongst the year's top films. That's not to mention stand-alone sites like Awards Daily and In Contention, or well-known bloggers like Jeff Wells, Dave Poland and Anne Thompson. Even Roger Ebert has devoted a wealth of recent ink on the subject. But, the truth is, no matter how much someone knows, it's still...  read more

Oscar bait The Reader gets Dec. 12 release date

Studio mogul Harvey Weinstein's decision to release his company's World War II prestige drama The Reader  on Dec. 12 could spell trouble for Kate Winslet's Oscar hopes. The British actress, long hailed as one of the best of her generation (if not the best), has been an Oscar bridesmaid on five separate occasions. With The Reader arriving this calendar year, she will be competing against her other prestigious literary adaptation, Revolutionary Road, due out a mere two weeks later on Dec. 26....  read more

Watch the trailer for Revolutionary Road

First optioned for film in 1967, Richard Yates’s classic novel Revolutionary Road has had a long run-up to the screen. Published almost contemporary to its action in 1961 and yet starkly modern in thought, the story concerns a husband and wife in suburban Connecticut circa 1955, she deeply discontent with the social prerogatives of the period, he more and more immersed in them....  read more