Redundant remake news, now.  With American Psycho in 2000, co-writer and director Mary Harron managed to adapt a seemingly unadaptable novel while preserving its spirit and a surprising amount of its unsavory content.  The film, supported by a remarkable, Tom Cruise-inspired performance from Christian Bale, has aged well; ten years on, its intentional but not overdone 1980's Manhattan and Bale's controlled work allow the scathing satirical comedy to shine through even clearer.  But why not remake it anyways?

Though he has thrice been nominated for an Academy Award, Leonardo DiCaprio has never won an Oscar.  Based on the first trailer for J. Edgar, released about three weeks ago, DiCaprio is going hog-wild on his latest role, playing FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, and from the looks of it, he can practically taste the awards-season glory.  DiCaprio is certainly working with a creative team familiar with awards, as J. Edgar is directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Dustin Lance Black, who penned Milk.  Two new poster designs released by Warner Bros both focus on DiCaprio's fierce Hoover visage, complete with old age makeup, and both get across the classy pedigree and subject matter of this biopic.

Of all the classy pictures scheduled for the upcoming prestige movie season, J. Edgar is one of the classiest and most prestigious.  It's got Clint Eastwood directing from a screenplay by Dustin Lance Black, who won an Oscar in 2008 for his Milk script, and it's got Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role of founding FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, a controversial Washington figure if ever there was one. 

The first trailer for J. Edgar has arrived, with DiCaprio looking to really sink his teeth into the role, which follows Hoover from his earliest days attempting to impose law on the likes of John Dillinger all the way to his twilight years.  There is plenty to be intrigued by in this trailer, but I suspect a lot of people are going to talk mostly about that old age makeup.

The phrase, "Behind every great man there's an even greater woman," usually implies the solidarity of a healthy and supportive romantic relationship.  In the case of founding FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, the greater woman behind him was not a love interest, but his secretary Helen Gandy, who loyally served as his right hand for 54 years, even torching the controversial power-magnet's incriminating personal files after his death.  Clint Eastwood's new biographical film J. Edgar, which chronicles the early years of Hoover's tenure, would be incomplete without an appropriately forceful Helen Gandy, who is played by Oscar Nominee Naomi Watts.

Last week, the first official images from J. Edgar showed Leonardo DiCaprio as the title character, along with Armie Hammer as Clyde Toulson, with whom Hoover had a relationship that went beyond the strictly professional.  Now, another new image reveals Naomi Watts as Gandy, with DiCaprio present as a supremely agitated-looking Hoover.

The last time Leonardo DiCaprio played a prominent, controversial 20th Century historical figure, the world was gifted with my beloved The Aviator, in which Martin Scorsese depicted, with plenty of dramatic license, the early years of Howard Hughes. 

That sets a high bar for J. Edgar, the Clint Eastwood-directed biopic chronicling the early career of J. Edgar Hoover, the powerful and enduring bureaucrat who served as the first director of the FBI.  Way back in February, set photos of DiCaprio smoking a cigarette in his Hooverian vest and hair combo made their way online, but now an official image gives our best look at the actor, complete with some unnerving shark eyes.

When you were seventeen, did your widowed father move to a small town, where – out of boredom – you began a dramatic love triangle with a teacher at your high school and a stoner classmate?  If so, then you'll identify with Caroline Wexler, the character played by Kat Dennings in Daydream Nation.  Josh Lucas portrays the teacher, while the stoner classmate is played by Reece Thompson, who starred in woefully underrated 2007 comedy-drama Rocket Science.  Check out all the dark comedy and abundant drama in the Daydream Nation trailer, courtesy of Hulu.

The star of Poseidon and Stealth, Josh Lucas has signed on to play legendary aviator Charles Lindbergh in Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar.  The biopic, written by Dustin Lance Black, centers on the longtime FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, to be played by Leonardo DiCaprio.  Also in the cast is Armie Hammer, who made a big impression as the Winklevoss Twins in The Social Network.

The poster for Life As We Know It, starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel, has premiered over at iVillage, but you can see it right here. The Warner Bros. comedy, which was directed by t.v. vet Greg Berlanti ("Brothers and Sisters") hits theaters on October 8th.

Synopsis: A provocative yet humorous romance about a rural community shaken by the arrival of an acerbic teenage girl.

Synopsis: Two single adults become parents when their best friends die and request them to be the baby's guardian.