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6 Reasons Why ‘The Reader’ Should Win Best Picture At the 81st Oscar Awards

January 22, 2009 11:12 pm

The contrarian viewpoint:1. Not only will geeks be outraged, this will add insult to injury as many believe "The Reader" stole "The Dark Knight"s Oscar thunder. Think of the delicious hours of comment reading o...

‘The Dark Knight,’ Christopher Nolan, ‘Rev Road’ And Bruce Springsteen The Big Oscar Nom Snubs

Rodrigo Perez

January 22, 2009 2:49 pm

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The big winner this year in the 2009 Oscar nominations has to be seen as The Weinstein Company.Earlier this fall, they took a huge gamble when they very publicly rush-released "The Reader" against the wishes of...

Golden Globe Snubs 2009: ‘The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button,’ ‘Milk,’ & ‘Frost/Nixon’ Totally Shut Out

Spencer Martin

January 12, 2009 1:25 pm

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The 2009 Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globes aired last night and Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" cleaned up almost every motion picture award. The praise and credit for 'Slumdog' is well-d...

Golden Globe Acceptance Speeches: Mickey Rourke, Kate Winslet, Chris Nolan For Ledger, Sally Hawkins; More…

Rodrigo Perez

January 12, 2009 6:09 am

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The best acceptance speeches of the night are already on YouTube. Our favorite is still Sally Hawkins' win for "Happy Go Lucky," she's awesome. Well that and a close tie for Danny Boyle....

Scripter Awards Nominees

Rodrigo Perez

January 6, 2009 9:21 pm

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The USC Scripter Award, which honors both the original script and adapted screenplays based on existing work has announced this year’s nominees, as follows: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" - Eric Roth"Ir...

Award Season Watch: San Fran, Phoenix, San Diego And St. Louis Critics Laud Usual Suspects, Mostly ‘Slumdog Millionaire’

Rodrigo Perez

December 16, 2008 2:21 pm

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Can there be any doubt that "Slumdog Millionaire" has gone from the little movie that could to sure-fire Best Picture Oscar nominee? The film has taken another slab of critical awards. More Crit awards from ...

Weekend Box-Office For December 12; ‘Doubt,’ ‘The Reader’ ‘Gran Torino,’ ‘Wendy & Lucy,’ ‘Che’ More…

Rodrigo Perez

December 12, 2008 10:36 pm

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For once, this is actually a very crowded, movie-going weekend with tons of Oscar-bait going head to head. Of course garbage like "The Day The Earth Stood Still" with Keenooo Reeves is probably going to rule th...

Is ‘The Reader’ Too Subtle For Its Own Good?

Rodrigo Perez

December 2, 2008 1:36 pm

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"The Reader" is by no means a bad film, but the Stephen Daldry-directed film was called "devastating" by one friend of a friend in the industry and we felt like it was anything but. Like Joe Wright's "Atonement...

First Look: Final Poster For ‘The Reader’

Rodrigo Perez

November 25, 2008 11:02 pm

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Cinematical provides a look at the final poster for "The Reader," the semi-maligned Stephen Daldry ("The Hours") WWII drama that underwent an controversy earlier in the year when producer Scott Rudin and distri...

First Positive ‘Reader’ Review Trickles In

Seth Valentine

November 19, 2008 9:21 pm

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Not much, but it should be a start. FoxNews (?!) has a little information about upcoming Oscarbait picture "The Reader" starring the always interesting Kate Winslet. Though details are sketchy, they seemed to...

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