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Trailer Stash: S. Darko, Knowing, Funny People, more

By Joe Shearer on 4:32 PM on February 26, 2009

And now, a look at some notable trailers lighting up the blogs and message boards:... read more

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Oscar nominees announced: Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader and Benjamin Button amongst highlights

By Jeffrey Bloomer on 10:15 AM on January 22, 2009

Slumdog Millionaire and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button took their anointed places and talk of a populist uprising was silenced with The Dark Knight largely snubbed as the Oscar nominations were announced this morning.... read more

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New York hearts Milk, Los Angeles prefers Wall-E

By Jeremy Medina on 10:47 AM on December 12, 2008

With award season in full swing, Milk and Wall-E have proven to be be the big winners on both sides of the coast. The New York Film Critics Circle named the Gus Van Sant-directed drama as its best film, while the Los Angeles Film Critics Association went for Pixar's latest opus.... read more

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Oscar Buzz: Who's ahead in this year's key races?

By Jeremy Medina on 1:00 PM on December 1, 2008

There's a surprisingly gargantuan Internet faction dedicated to predicting who will be up for film's most coveted prize, the Academy Award. Publications like Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Times and New York Times all have Oscar blogs that obsessively trail the fluctuations in buzz amongst the year's top films. That's not to mention stand-alone sites like Awards Daily and In Contention, or well-known bloggers like Jeff Wells, Dave Poland and Anne Thompson. Even Roger Ebert has devoted a wealth of recent ink on the subject. But, the truth is, no matter how much someone knows, it's still... read more

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Ballast, The Visitor, Synecdoche earn Gotham nominations

By Jeremy Medina on 9:30 AM on October 23, 2008

It is but the middle of October and we already have our first set of 2008 film-award nominations. The Gotham Independent Film Awards announced its yearly list of nominees, shining the spotlight on a number of smaller films sure to factor into the Oscar equation later this year.... read more

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Almodóvar and Cruz back together for Broken Embraces

By Jeffrey Bloomer on 11:55 AM on September 4, 2008

The annals of director-actor relationships are long and storied—Leone-Eastwood, Scorsese-DeNiro, Burton-Depp—but among the least celebrated living examples has to be Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz.... read more

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