Doubt Movie :) many oscar nominations

but nada in the end for Meryl Streep. She waited with her posse the whole evening at the Academy Awards, but there were only compliments and smart jokes that she received.
Kate Winslet for example said something like: I can't believe I'm on the same listing with Meryl Streep, but I'm glad I got this Oscar. Meryl, you have to suck it up!

It’s 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the schools’ strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James, a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.

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The Reader - Kate Winslet

This is not an easy film to watch, the reader is not such a feel good movie. yuo can fell pretty real the horrors and the attrocities of the world war 2 and the german SS in the jews extermination camps.

Kate Winslet is very believable in this character.

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Slumdog Millionaire - Oscars - great indian movie

this should get the Oscar , Slumdog Millionaire is geniusly simple but very powerful in the message. You don't want to live in India, all is dirty, dangers everywhere, very bad people looking for small helpless children. You can only rely on yourself to find a way to survive. Life is tough in the slums, bad things happen, parents get killed, children get mutilated, only the smartest and strongest can survive. Two brothers start living on their own after their mother gets murdered in a revolt. They meet Latika, another girl without parents, and try to find ways to live. They fall prey to a child molester, who wants to use them as beggers, but first they have to learn how to sing, and steal, and cheat.
The two brothers escape eventually but lose Latika.

Slumdog Millionaire is a story of survival, love and joy of life, but very tough and gritty. One of the brothers win millions in the popular show 'who wants to be a millionaire'. The questions he answers are really episodes from his life. The struggle to win Latika back from the kingpin is worth seeing.

A lesson of life, in all, a very strong movie, something you won't expect from a indian movie, but of course we should not forget, India created a lot of masterpieces with many talented actors. Anyone still know Raj Kapoor? His son Anil Kapoor plays in this one.
Update: WOW, the movie Slumdog Millionaire just received like 5 or 6 Oscars, the best film academy award is what counts. this is on #35 place on Imdb with 8,7/10.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Brad Bitt and Cate Blanchet playing in 'The curious case of Benjamin Button'. This is a movie you will never forget. The story will keep you awake at night, the narration and the images are perfect.

Although it's easy to see after one hour where the film is getting at and how it will end, actually seeing the last 15 minutes of Benjamin Button it will still blow your mind. The director David Fincher knows exactly what he's doing , he uses Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett to the full extent of their capabilities.
Brad Pitt plays his best game (see Jesse James, Seven years in Tibet, legends of the fall), and Cate Blanchet is different than the one in Lord of the rings.

go see Benjamin Button, you will never regret it!

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