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It is now official. With a cast including Jet Li, Mickey Rourke, Dolph Lundgren, Forest Whitaker and The Stath, Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables was sure to one of the best action films ever made. But now, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed on to join the testosterone party, which seals the deal - that this will be the biggest and best movie to hit our screens in 2010.

The Queen Peter Morgan's "The Queen" is nominated for six Academy Awards, including one for best picture. The Departed Under Martin Scorsese's directing, "The Departed" is nominated for five Oscars. Babel "Babel" is nominated for seven Oscars, including best picture and director. Letters From Iwo Jima "Letters" is nominated for four Academy Awards, including best director and best picture. Little Miss Sunshine "Sunshine" is nominated for four Academy Awards, including best picture Leonardo DiCaprio Nominated for his role in "Blood Diamond," this is Dicaprio's third nomination. Ryan Gosling Nominated for "Half Nelson," this is Gosling's first Oscar nod. Peter...

Excerpt - TELLURIDE, Colo. (Hollywood Reporter) - Director Kevin MacDonald introduced the Telluride screening of "The Last King of Scotland" by saying, "It's my first feature. Please be gentle." But there's little need for gentleness. Much of "The Last King of Scotland" is an extraordinary piece about naivete caught up short in terrible events. Box office looks substantial in sophisticated urban venues in North America. ~ snip ~

Hollywood star Forest Whitaker who is playing Idi Amin in the screen version of the acclaimed novel The Last King of Scotland, says the late Ugandan dictator was no saint, but was not the monster that has been portrayed in the West. In a weekend interview, Whitaker said his research for the role in the film had changed his perception of Amin, whose brutal rule over Uganda between 1971 and 1979 was punctuated by bizarre and often psychopathic behaviour, and the deaths of up to half a million people. "I'm not trying to defend Amin, the Amin I found was...