Loretta Devine on For Colored Girls, Black Women and White Critics
The jury is out on whether or not For Colored Girls will find momentum at the box office, in the Oscar derby, or both, But for at least one-ninth of its ensemble of…
Naomi Watts on Fair Game, Short Attention Spans and How You Get to Know a Spy
Naomi Watts freely admits she had a hard time getting to know Valerie Plame, the ex-CIA agent notoriously outed by a Bush Administration henchman in 2003. But it wasn't…
Weekend Forecast: Is For Colored Girls This Year's Blind Side?
I know, I know: "Started drinking early again, eh, STV? Lionsgate's check cleared?" Well, yes to the drinking, but still: If you're a box-office watcher of any…
Joaquin Phoenix Has a Doppelganger in the Taliban
Honestly there are no words -- except maybe the set up from MSNBC reporter Mujeeb Ahmad, whose new interview with high-ranking Taliban member Mullah Aminullah discredits…
Armed and Dangerous: A Comprehensive Timeline of Everyone Who's Fainted (Or Worse) at 127 Hours
The official word from Fox Searchlight is "No" -- the epidemic of fainting, seizures and other visceral physical reactions to the amputation scene in 127 Hours is not a…
UK Last Exorcism Poster Banned, Will Have to Borrow Photoshop From US
It was announced yesterday in the UK that the local Advertising Standards Authority -- the bureaucracy apparently in charge of making sure impressionable young British…
Bridalplasty Teaser: TV Promotion or Satan's Fanfare?
Culture gave us a great gift Monday with the Giants' World Series win and... I'm sure something else recently. But this new Bridalplasty teaser is the stuff of night…
Inception, Toy Story 3 Jump in Latest Oscar Index
Week seven of Movieline's Oscar Index brings a few resurgent, big-money forces into the awards-season spotlight, where a few familiar faces hold fast to their own power…
Ho Ho Whoa: Joan Rivers Compares Susan Boyle's Christmas Record to Suicide
I don't have a lot to add to Joan Rivers's Twitter-based pan of the new Susan Boyle holiday album The Gift, which arrives in stores and online Nov. 9. I just really hope…
This Can't Really Be the Actual King's Speech Poster, Right?
At some point yesterday you may have noticed The King's Speech was having one of those weeks: A bunch of award nominations on Monday followed by a bundle of anti-MPAA…
Did Scorching Critic Just Derail the Waiting For 'Superman' Oscar Campaign?
I haven't seen Waiting For "Superman", director Davis Guggenheim's documentary about America's failing public school system -- and the possible solutions that may be…
Who Should Direct Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?, and 5 Other Stories You'll be Talking About Today
Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: Brad Pitt is at the center of a possible Jesse James reunion... Al Pacino goes to Wall Street... True Grit no longer under…
James Franco Taking Avant-Garde Three's Company to Sundance
November means many things to many people, but to me, it's an excuse to get excited for Sundance! Wooo! Movies! Altitude sickness! And right on cue, the festival has…
Jessica Chastain on Jolene, Tree of Life and Breaking Through with Terrence Malick
Just as the film whose title bears her character's name is something of a mixed bag, you could view its closing credit "Introducing Jessica Chastain as Jolene" a number…
The Pumpkin Centipede, and 6 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today
Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: Julia Louis-Dreyfus may be HBO's Veep... Katherine Heigl's next one finds a buyer... a beloved (if private) ballplayer…
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