With the 81st annual Academy Awards firmly entrenched in the "success" category--the totally bananas telecast saw an increase of four million viewers from last year's disastrous all-time low; all hail Hugh Jackman--the book is officially closed on the 2008 Oscar season. Now we can take som...

With the 81st annual Academy Awards firmly entrenched in the "success" category--the totally bananas telecast saw an increase of four million viewers from last year's disastrous all-time low; all hail Hugh Jackman--the book is officially closed on the 2008 Oscar season. Now we can take som...

The Oscars weren't the only awards show this weekend. That the Independent Spirit Awards are held on the same day as the announcements of the Razzie Award winners (congratulations Mike Myers!) probably tells you all you need to know about their place in the grand scheme of awards ceremonies. If the ...

Monday: Big Love Since you were busy watching the Oscars on Sunday night, chances are you missed Big Love. That's okay; we miss the show a lot ourselves. Still, when we have watched it this season, Big Love has been fantastic. For all the press that the casts of Mad Men and Lost rightly get, doesn't...

It's 2 a.m. and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you've already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we're just like you: single. Need a movie to keep you company until ...

We're not sure if you realize this, but the Oscars are this Sunday! We'd say they snuck up on us, but since the awards season is now longer than a pregnancy, we'd be lying to you if we did. The Hugh Jackman-hosted 81st annual Academy Awards were supposed to be cloaked in secrecy, but fortunately for...

That sound you hear rumbling in the background isn't your CPU tower about to explode from overuse (seriously, you should think about turning your office computer off when you go home), it's the geek stampede about to unleash itself over Watchmen. We're nearly two weeks away from Zack Snyder's "...

If you're the type of person who always thought the works of Jane Austen needed a little extra oomph, then have we got some news! Elton John's Rocket Pictures has set up Pride and Predator , an adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice... but one where an alien monster runs aro...

Monday: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid As part of their "31 Days of Oscar," Turner Classic Movies is pulling out all of your dusty old favorites this month. So here's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, one of those movies where everything clicks into place like a tumbler in a lock. Wi...

Apparently when Jonah Hill goes to sell a screenplay, he comes prepared with a full compliment of talent. Universal Studios has reportedly paid the Superbad star seven figures for The Adventurer's Handbook , a script he co-wrote with his friends Matt Spicer and Max Winkler, and the plan is for the f...