Aah, the holiday season. Strange how we cherish a time of year when the malls are over packed... it's cold outside... it's impossible to find a parking space...

Hey, isn’t that...? You know, that guy. The guy that always plays someone in the military. He was in, uh, Syriana, The Kingdom... Oh yeah! He was the father of the emo kid in American Beauty!

Actress Keisha Castle-Hughes nearly turned her back on the film industry following her 2004 Oscar nomination for Whale Rider, because she was horrified by the media "circus" that she was suddenly engulfed in.

Sylvester Stallone returns to the director's chair for Rocky Balboa, the fifth sequel to the Academy award winning boxing film that made him a superstar 30 years before. Also on DVD: Eragon, Blood Diamond, The Nativity Story and Everyone's Hero.

"300: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" - the innovative score to the upcoming feature film 300 - will be released by Warner Bros. Records on March 6, three days before the movie, also distributed by Warner Bros., opens nationwide. The film, which stars Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, and Rodrigo Santoro, is based on the acclaimed graphic novel by beloved comic book writer and artist Frank Miller.

The Painted Veil and The Pursuit of Happyness are among the top 10 movies of 2006 according to the U.S. Bishops' Office for Film and Broadcasting. Happy Feet and The Nativity Story are among the top family films of the year.

Penguins, James Bond and Denzel Washington have kept Jesus from the top of the U.S. box office after newly-released religious epic The Nativity Story seriously under-performed in its first weekend. Despite becoming the first film ever to premiere at The Vatican in Rome, the film, which chronicles the journey of Christ's parents to Bethlehem and the birth of Jesus, needed more than divine intervention to give it a big opening weekend.

Australian-born Whale Rider sensation Keisha Castle-Hughes stars opposite Oscar-nominee Oscar Isaac in Lords of Dogtown director Catherine Hardwicke's dramatic account of the Virgin Birth, and the arduous journey of Mary and Joseph to give birth to baby Jesus. Continue Reading Photo gallery / Watch trailer / More

More than 7,000 film fans made history in Italy Sunday night when they attended the first world premiere held at the Vatican. The Nativity Story, a new movie about the birth of Jesus Christ, debuted as part of a benefit in the hallowed Paul VI Hall.