William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is on a cold streak. Not only is he writing for Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush), owner of "The Rose," a theatre whose doors are about to be closed by sadistic c...

Actor Geoffrey Rush has received the coveted Australian of the Year trophy from the country's prime minister. The King's Speech star, who was the first Australian-born actor to win an Academy Awa...

Celebrated playwright Tom Stoppard has teamed with Disney bosses to adapt his Oscar-winning Shakespeare In Love script into a theatrical blockbuster. Stoppard, who dabbled with Shakespeare in his ...

Will a fourth go round involving the fountain of youth finally mean some real booty treasure (and not just the feminine type!) for old Jack Sparrow? Check out the review of the latest Captain Jack...

Anne Hathaway has become the frontrunner to land the iconic role of Fantine in a new movie version of musical "Les Miserables." The actress, who is currently playing Catwoman in the new Batman mo...

Happy Birthday to: Pirates of the Caribbean 4 star Geoffrey Rush (1951) Birth actor Gregory Smith (1983) English singer-songwriter Kate Nash (1987) "Sister Sister" twins Tia and Tamera Mowry ...

Emmy Award-winning director Tom Hooper ("John Adams") teams with screenwriter David Seidler to tell the story of King George VI in "The King's Speech."

Oh, the pesky business of predicting Oscar winners. Depending on Academy voters’ moods, a pundit can come off as brilliant or dumb as a post. This seems to be an awfully predictable year – but be...

What do the Academy Awards and March Madness have in common? Both are singular events that everybody can gamble on. Who doesn’t like an event in which everybody you know can fill out a pool sheet o...

Will The King's Speech stage a royal flush at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards? Or will The Social Network prove to have the most friends in all the right Hollywood places? We'll find out Sunday, but...

"The King's Speech" continued its reign over the movie industry's awards season by taking home seven trophies at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards (BAFTAs) on Sunday. The cri...

Critically-acclaimed "The King's Speech" is set to dominate the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards next month, after scoring a massive 14 nominations. The Tom Hooper movie...

I hope everyone had a happy and safe Thanksgiving filled with good food and excellent company. As part of a tradition in my family, we watched the movie “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” starring ...

I caught “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” last Monday, which turned out to be largely uneventful. While there are moments in the beginning and end that are quite stimulating, most of...

'The King's Speech' directed by Tom Hooper, simply put is a beautiful, Oscar worthy film. After the death of his father, King George V (Michael Gambon) and the scandalous abdication of...

The King's Speech and The Social Network have emerged as clear Oscars favorites for movie of the year in the first serious odds chart of the upcoming awards season. Experts at top awards show web...

Thanksgiving is only a few weeks away. And only a few days after that, critics groups will start doling out year-end best-of movie awards. Oscar season is officially underway.

Over the Labor Day weekend, I caught Robert Rodriguez’s action epic “Machete,” which is bullet riddled, eye candy, not intended for the faint of heart. Originally a fake movie trailer in the 2007 ...

Actor Colin Firth is set for the royal treatment after signing up to play King George VI in a new movie. The Mamma Mia! star will play Queen Elizabeth II's father in "The King's Speech". The fil...

Happy Birthday to "Birth" actor Gregory Smith (1983), "Sister Sister" twins Tia and Tamera Mowry (1978), rapper 50 Cent (1975), Wu-Tang Clan member Inspectah Deck (1970), singer Heather Nova (1967)...