Melissa Leo

In Kirkland, a star was born -- in her forties. Kirkland's Anna, a faded Czech star stumbling into Manhattan striving for a new beginning, is just as stunning 25 years later.

From the cast, you’d think it was an Oscar contender. There’s Melissa Leo, who took home an Academy Award last year for portraying the brash, hair...

Seven Days In Utopia is a faith-based film that has a top-notch cast and a muddled message. The ambiguous pronouncements made by Robert Duvall's character will have believers scratching their heads.

Melissa Leo was understandably excited when she won her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 'The Fighter' in February. So excited, she said on 'The View...

From Easter Bunny to cult leader and murderer -- it's quite a 180 turn for James Marsden. The star, who took the lead in this weekend's family-frie...

This movie is a different kind of bad. It's the Saturday night SyFy scare-fest starring a ridiculous creature that's "half shark, half octopus, all killer!" Of course it's awful.

It's amazing what a few Oscar wins will do for you. It took Mark Wahlberg years to get his hit film "The Fighter" to get produced, and now, followi...

From the almost-entirely unionized Oscar winners to the public workers in Wisconsin continuing their two-week sit-in for worker justice, Americans everywhere were hopefully reminded that unions make America great.

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Hello darlings, and welcome to my annual skewering of the Oscars show.

The show tried too hard to be topical, cute and tongue-in-cheek, and though it offered scattered moments of freshness at the start, it soon curdled.

8:39PM EST Off to a good start with the hosts, James Franco and Anne Hathaway, inserted into scenes from several of the Oscar nominees, on an Incept...

You know the writers are in trouble when they have to rely upon Hathaway's mother and Franco's grandmother to help out in the audience. All in all the show was mediocre, but not a disaster.

Despite widespread criticism for her self-promotional Oscar campaign, Melissa Leo took home the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 'The...

Last night I was lucky enough to be invited to attend QVC's annual pre-Oscar party at the swanky Four Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills. It was a night ...

Melissa Leo, once a frontrunner in the Oscar race for supporting actress, launched her own campaign in the Hollywood trades earlier this month. The ad...

Since my last round of predictions, two major Oscar-related events have taken place. The Writers Guild Awards were handed out to The Social Network an...

This field of 10 illustrates how movies that would once have been judged just solid are now praised to the skies. To my mind, the Best Picture nominees that meet the historical standard number five.

Last week's retrospective of David O. Russell's career had me thinking of a new category: Movie with the Biggest Heart. The Fighter may vie with Toy Story 3, but in the end would topple all contenders.

PARK CITY, Utah -- Kevin Smith has premiered his latest movie at the Sundance Film Festival and sold it to the highest bidder - himself, for $20. S...

She's been a working actor for almost 30 years - having dropped out of Purchase College of the State University of New York to take a role on All My C...

I was also delighted when Katey Sagal won for Sons of Anarchy. Kudos also for Chris Colfer's win for Fox' Glee. But then we had to listen to Gervais again.