In what was surely an unexpected surprise for many, Sean Penn took the Oscar for Best Leading Actor from Mickey Rourke at the 2009 Academy Awards. Biopics are always a tricky beast to bring to the screen: they either ardently stick to the historical content and risk giving birth to a dull movie, or ...

Naomi Watts and Freida Pinto, the cutie from Slumdog Millionaire, have joined Anthony Hopkins and Brand in the cast of Woody Allen's yet-untitled new film: Freida Pinto will follow up her performance in the Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire" with a role in Woody Allen's latest project. This year's ...

I won’t lead you astray, friends, the news that you will be seeing from this story — which you’ve probably seen on sites that don’t care about real, hard-hitting news — is that Naomi Watts has joined the cast of Woody Allen’s next film. But the real news, dear fel...

W. takes viewers through Bush’s eventful life — his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith, and of course the critical days leading up to Bush’s decision to invade Iraq. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biopic and Politics/Religion; Running Time: 2 hrs. 11 min.; Rel...

Once you realize that Academy Awards and quality correlate only sporadically, the only reason to watch is the hope of seeing something surprising or controversial. People slagged last year's weird Pilobolus shadow-puppet interludes, but what the hell: at least it was something I hadn't seen before. ...

A lot of people who care about this kind of stuff may already know just about everything I'm about to cram into this post, but you'll have to forgive me, since I just spent the past three days or so in Ohio so I could stand in a near-hurricane and sing benignly racist (is there really such a thing?)...

Wanna convince Josh Brolin to be in your movie? Just let him cast it himself and he'll be putty in your hands! You might remember that Brolin was having a hard time deciding whether he wanted to do Jonah Hex back in November. He was; he wasn't; he wasn't sure; he couldn't decide. Brolin said: "It's ...

Variety is reporting this evening that Josh Brolin (Milk) and Anthony Hopkins are both joining up with Woody Allen’s upcoming ensemble film, which will begin shooting in London this summer. However, that is all the information that we have at this moment, as the plot and title are being “...

Didn’t Anthony Hopkins say a few years back that he was quitting acting? It doesn’t seem like he’s slowed down at all. Now he’s set to start in a new Woody Allen movie, along with Josh Brolin . I’m trying to imagine the movie that would involve those three guys. Should be interesting! And ...

Actually, the best thing out there this morning was more about "The Rum Diary," which it looks more and more like will turn into an actual movie in 2010. So far, we know that "Withnail and I" (watch that, already!) director Bruce Robinson is writing and directing the Hunter S. Thompson adaptation fo...