What’s more than a thousand pages long, nearly 150 years old and will likely be nominated for a slew of Oscars this January?

“Anna Karenina,” of course.

The latest film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 19th-century Russian domestic tale, directed by Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley (the...

Whether it's a gender-bending gag (Adam Sandler and Eddie Murphy, we're looking at you) or a meta-comment on interconnectedness and reincarnation (ah, "Cloud Atlas," we'll be incoherently discussing you for years to come), film has a rich history of actors doing double duty by playing multiple roles.

You probably met Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby on long-running sitcom “How I Met Your Mother,” but he’d like the chance to re-introduce himself. Radnor's sophomore feature effort, "Liberal Arts" (out in limited release Friday), concerns the angst of a 35-year-old New York admissions counselor, Jesse...

For Oscar-winning actress Melissa Leo, the experience of making a movie is almost as important as the end result. Take, for example, her new indie, “Why Stop Now,” based on the 2008 short film “Predisposed,” in which she also had a starring role: Leo cultivated an important working relationship...

The long-awaited “Hunger Games: Catching Fire” has its Mags -- and it’s not Melissa Leo.

“Lynn Cohen is Mags!” Elizabeth Banks, who plays Capitol crony Effie Trinket in the popular series, crowed on her blog early Monday morning. Lionsgate confirmed Cohen’s casting late last week.

It’s the classic story: Boy meets Girl. Girl falls for Boy. Boy reveals that he’s Girl’s long-lost half-brother and that he has a $150,000 cash inheritance for her son.

Such is the mess where Elizabeth Banks finds herself in “People Like Us,” which hits theaters this Friday. Here,...

Elizabeth Banks has been a busy woman this year: she has already appeared in three films and several episodes of "30 Rock," with "People Like Us" and "Pitch Perfect" coming up. Her schedule shows no signs of slowing down, either, with several projects listed on her IMDb page...

Martin Short’s elastic face has morphed into many memorable characters, including Jiminy Glick, Ed Grimley and an impressively passable Katharine Hepburn. The latest persona the comic slipped into, however, required no facial contortion: Short-voiced Stefano, a friendly Italian sea lion who performs in the circus in “Madagascar 3:...