revolutionary road

Good Fucking Riddance, ‘Revolutionary Road’

6:15AM STV | 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. More »

Your Favourite Stars Join Holiday Box-Office Fight to the Death

12:45AM STV | Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and/or mortifying at the movies. This week: Hollywood gets stuck in your chimney delivering Benjamin Button and four other holiday blockbuster hopefuls. More »

‘The Spirit,’ ‘Seven Pounds’ and ‘Revolutionary Road’: A Taxonomy of Trash

1:45AM STV | Though Hollywood reserves the holiday movie season for its annual harvest of ambition, prestige and clout, even the most painstaking Oscar husbandry can often fail. For three much-anticipated films in particular, the damage varies. More »

Kate Winslet Not Quite Ready For Husband’s ‘Awkward’ Thigh-Surrendering Orders

5:39AM STV | Kate Winslet’s sex-positive, clothes-allergic career emerged from its most severe test to date in Revolutionary Road: It was there, the actress admits in a wrenching confession to ET, that her husband sternly insisted that he share her with Leonardo Di Caprio. More »

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

7:30AM STV | 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 glowing praise for the latter. Surely the studio’s shrieking winged attack flacks are sniffing the most direct trail to the leakers’ (mostly anonymous) domains, so make their sacrifices worth it! Hear the early word after the jump.

Kate Winslet’s Nude ‘Vanity Fair’ Shoot Enveloped By Furs, Photoshop Controversy

2:54AM Kyle Buchanan | If Kate Winslet thought she could beat her critics to the punch with a raft of winning, self-deprecating statements in the new issue of Vanity Fair (”Once a fat kid, always a fat kid”), then we have a London bridge we’d like to sell her — and a bloodthirsty British press she should probably be introduced to. Shortly after images from her Steven Meisel-shot, Catherine Deneueve-inspired photoshoot went live on Vanity Fair’s website, the U.K. tabloids attacked them as a Photoshopped fantasia (said the Daily Mail’s “airbrushing expert”: “I would be very surprised if her bottom was like that naturally”). The furor caused Winslet to throw a Scott Rudin-worthy fit, says People: More »

8:12AM STV | Today in Deadpan Hyperbole: “Why Revolutionary Road is going to be a big, practically zeitgeist-defining, hit,” wherein Glenn Kenny deduces that because Mad Men is a hit (though not quite), the show’s viewers will race to see Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as an ad man and his wife splintering in early 1960s Connecticut. Titanic isn’t mentioned. If he isn’t serious, then it’s the best poker face we’ve seen in a long, long time. [Some Came Running] More »