Slumdog Millionaire was the runaway winner at the 81st Academy Awards last night. Danny Boyle's Mumbai-set melodrama triumphed in all but one of the categories for which it was nominated, winning best picture, best director, and best adapted screenplay among others. It seemed nothing, not even poten...

Movie: Revolutionary Road * Trailer * Official Site In Theaters: Dec. 26, 2008 (limited; expanded in January 2009) Runtime: 119 minutes Directed by: Sam Mendes MPAA Rating: R for language and some sexual content/nudity Gecko Rating: As a rule, I generally don’t like movies that revolve around ...

In the spirit of fairness for those many times we called the Academy out for its general Oscar-nominating ineptitude, let's all commend its members' fine taste today in snubbing the utterly despicable Revolutionary Road. Apart from a surprise Supporting Actor nod for Michael Shannon's truth-hoarding...

The Reader means Stepen Daldry's gotten nom'd for all 3 films he's made. The full list of Oscar nominations is here , with expert opinion on them here . Talking points to make you look smart here. My impressions: OVERALL I'm shocked that The Reader did so well! It raked in major nomi...

Filed under: Money & work, Celeb parenting, Behaving badly I love Kate Winslet. I hardly know her, of course, but I can't help myself. I've watched Kate in most of her movies as she's grown up right in front of me -- we are, in fact, the same age, and both have two kids. Kate, who won two Golden...

Richard Yates spent the last years of his life living alone in a rented flat in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, stranded among brimming ashtrays and Salvation Army furniture. By then he needed continual supplements of oxygen, and had become locally famous for driving his beat-up Mazda around while sucking alte...

FROM SPLASHPAGE: Back in October, the ‘Net leaped out of its seat and shouted “Hallelujah!” over the news that Vertigo’s groundbreaking series “Preacher” had broken out of development hell and a “Preacher” movie was on its way to the silver screen afte...

Jan. 2: Adam and Matty never did like that strange couple down the street on "Revolutionary Road"... they always just seemed a tad different: never borrowing a cup of sugar, always absent from the neighborhood barbecues. So the lads were hardly surprised to learn the Wheelers (Kate Winslet and Leona...

Judging from the latest round of voting from the Gurus O' Gold, the top four Oscar sure shots are not at all surprising: 1. Slumdog 2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 3. Milk 4. Frost/Nixon And the consensus on the fifth slot is Dark Knight, with two actor-friendly dramas, Doubt and Revolutionar...

In Blake Bailey’s A Tragic Honesty, an excellent Richard Yates biography, Bailey depicts Yates’s efforts to adapt William Styron’s Lie Down in Darkness for director John Frankenheimer. The film, as we all know, was never made. And although Yates took this lucrative gig to whirl awa...