Filed under: Audio/Video, Home Video In the VHS days, rental versions of movies were usually saddled with preview after preview that you'd have to fast-forward through before getting to the main event -- a small penalty for not having to pay full-price to watch it. With the advent of the DVD, and no...

We've already said quite a bit about Slumdog Millionaire and how it opened up a can of whoop-ass at the Oscar's, possibly fed by the movie's appeal as 'poverty porn'. International Herald Tribune has a sweet, interesting article on how Best Picture winner Slumdog Millionaire may be irking some of In...

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• The former publicist of late actress/singer Eartha Kitt is outraged that Kitt wasn't included in the Oscars' tribute to recently deceased stars. She died on Christmas of colon cancer at age 81. "The producers are either 12 or have been living under a rock for the past 60 years," he fum...

The day after the Oscars, Keith Olbermann exulted in the bold expressions of free speech on the kudocast. He said on MSNBC, "If last night had been the 2003 Oscars, Dustin Lance Black, Bill Maher and Sean Penn probably would have spent the day raked over the coals by the yapping toadies of the ...

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It stands to reason that, if Oscar voters believe a film is the best of the year, they think it's the best directed and written too. So we should not be surprised that "Slumdog Millionaire" won all three of those races at the Oscars. After all, "No Country for Old Men" did just t...

"Slumdog Millionaire" won eight Academy Awards. As is often the case at the Oscars, these wins followed up on equivalent kudos from the respective guilds, largely because the two sets of kudos share many of the same voters. But the scale is hugely different. There are, for example, 1,240 m...

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The makers of Slumdog Millionaire told the press this week that they have made last-minute arrangements for the entire cast of the film (children included) to attend the Oscars this weekend, where it's up for seven Academy Awards. The film has been controversial for a number of reasons, from the pej...