This week's favorite Oscar topic, besides last night's announcement that Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin will be co-hosting the awards, is where all the original screenplays have gone. The Hollywood Reporter's Steven Zeitchik points out the a dearth of obvious candidates for the "Best...
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"Away We Go" is hitting the UK, and the London Times' Kate Muir points out the weirdness of director Sam Mendes -- a native of Reading -- setting himself up to be the premiere chronicler of the "American Dream." Muir cites the scolding given the film by New York Times critic A...
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If you weren't already aware of how our recent economic state has made the source material for Jason Reitman's new film "Up in the Air" extra-extra-melancholy, the teaser trailer, released earlier today, makes it perfectly clear. You don't even need to listen to George Clooney's...
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