Best of the Fests: Millionaire Wins Big at Toronto

USA Today reports on the Toronto International Film Festival , which wound up this year's festivities yesterday: "The people have ...

Mothers and Sisters

The Best Actress race shouldn't be hurting for candidates this year, especially if these new trailers for two high profile films are any...

Best of the Fests: The Wrestler Scores at Venice

Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler won the top prize , the Golden Lion, at the Venice Film Festival yesterday. The drama stars Mickey Rou...

Best of the Fests: Toronto Begins

The biggest film fest in North America and Canada's premiere movie going event, the Toronto International Film Festival begins today. A...

Best of the Fests: Telluride Goes Global

With a dearth of homegrown product, the Telluride Film Festival has gone for an international flavor this year. Only two American films -- ...

Best of the Fests: Venice Begins

The 65th Venice Film Festival opens today with the world premiere of the Coen Brothers' quirky crime caper Burn After Reading (starrin...

Back in the Saddle

Viggo Mortensen teams up with his A History of Violence nemesis Ed Harris in the new western Appaloosa . The duo are the new sheriffs in to...

Women We Love: Emma Thompson

Object of our affection : Emma Thompson , actress/ writer. - Warm and witty, she's the actress at the top of my "fantasy celebrity...

Awards Watch: The Brokeback Factor, Part 2

In last week's part 1 of "The Brokeback Factor", I speculated that a posthumous Oscar win for Heath Ledger for his performan...

Awards Watch: The Brokeback Factor, Part 1

As Variety recently noted , 2008 is now more then half over and, save for a few below the marquee categories, the Oscar race is wide open. O...

Awards Watch: Oscar House Rules

Two of the always-controversial Oscar categories are affected by some new rule changes at the Academy, announced today . First up, the awa...