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

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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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Golden Globe nominations announced

After the awkward press conference that became of last year’s Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association rolled out the expected nominees this morning for a show that is now guaranteed to draw all the names who shunned it last year....  read more

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Rain of Madness sends up Tropic Thunder... kind of

The rabid satire that is Tropic Thunder hit all the stops: A big, bloody Vietnam epic-within-an-epic. Robert Downey Jr. as an Australian superstar in blackface, “the dude playin' the dude disguised as another dude.” Tom Cruise as a grotesque incarnation of the Hollywood executive....  read more

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Tropic Thunder

Everyone wants to have their action-movie cake and blow it up, too...  read more

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