Kate Winslet

Sneak peek: The Reader

Five times academy award nominee, Kate Winslet is back in yet another power packed film, The Reader, co-starring Ralph Fiennes. This romantic drama is set in a post world-war II Germany, and tells the story of a man whose life...

Kate's Naked Words

Kate WinsletWe all know that Kate Winslet is not a fan of airbrushing. Remember the infamous GQ scandal? While most of us would love to change our bits and bobs, Kate is dead against it. The actress recently caused a stir after...

Winslet: 'My body's less than perfect'

She may be stripping down again to her bare essentials with Leonardo DiCaprio, but Kate Winslet insists her body is less than perfect. The mother-of-two took off her clothes to film the steamy sex scene with her ex- Titanic...

DiCaprio's back on the crusade

Published Date: 14 November 2008 LEONARDO DICAPRIO has come a long way from the 23-year-old heart throb who sparked teenage mania in the blockbusting tear-jerker Titanic. When we meet to discuss his latest film, Body Of Lies,...

Will economy make crowds shun gloomy Oscar flicks?

Escapism comes in many forms, but clearly it doesn’t come in the form that most Oscar contenders take AP Los Angeles: Not long before he’s assassinated, Sean Penn’s Harvey Milk proclaims his key precept for social change: “You...

Where's Oscar?

Chances are you haven't even seen him yet, though it's a bit late in the year for him to start surfacing. He may have popped up a few times over the summer and once or twice in October, but for the most part he's been invisible.

Mendes' evolutionary 'Revolutionary Road'

On his first try nine years ago, Sam Mendes won a best-director Oscar for "American Beauty," which also was awarded best picture. He recalls thinking, "I have got that over with. Now I can go on and make movies. That is a huge...

Paramount Readies its Snipers as 'Button,' 'Revolutionary Road' Reviews Trickle Out

It had to happen: Whispers are speeding out of previews of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Revolutionary Road, leaving Paramount behind a breached embargo wall and knee-deep in mixed buzz for the former and generally...

Pacific Banana

Review by Gary Couzens. Review: “It wants to go up, up, up, it always goes down, down, down...” One thing you have to say about the films of John D. Lamond: like his earlier Felicity, Pacific Banana doesn't half have an...

6. Oscar could use a big hit

After this year's Academy Awards, the question was whether the Oscars were still relevant or if they were going the way of art galleries and modern dance, perceived as too elite and avant garde to appeal to the masses.