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David O. Russell

On Friday, David O. Russell took time out from editing The Weinstein Company's Silver Lining Playbook to feel up his pre-op transsexual nephew.

BAFTA has releasedits long list of nominees. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and My Week with Marilyn lead with 16 nods each.

Ron Paul supporters let their racist flag fly with a nutso attack that paints Jon Huntsman as a "Maoist Manchurian Candidate."

"The 2012 Oscars trailer looks like the shittiest movie ever." Amen.

Dana Stevens laments the fact that the top 10 highest-grossing films of 2011 were all franchise installments.

Exclusivity is as good a starting point as any when discussing David Lynch's Club Silencio, says someone who's been there.

Exactly five years after Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba, Joran Van der Sloot went on trial for killing a Peruvian woman.

The Self-Styled Siren unveils her favorite old films viewed for the first time in 2011.

Are you ready to see Amanda Seyfried play Linda Lovelace?

For Salon, David Sirota lists 10 terms that could be leaving our vernacular, like "newspapers" and "public schools."

Richard Corliss's DVD of the year is Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du Cinéma.

Below, witness the softer side of Michael Shannon:

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