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Here are the winners of the 13th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards:
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, “The Last King of Scotland”
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, “The Queen”
Best Supporting Actor: Eddie Murphy, “Dreamgirls”
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson, “Dreamgirls”
Cast: Little Miss Sunshine
These awards are often seen as a good indicator for the acting categories at the Oscars. I think [...]

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Although The Departed is up for Best Picture, one of its producers will not be. Brad Grey - who is also the chairman of Paramount Pictures - has been denied a producer credit.
The producers of another Best Picture nominee, Little Miss Sunshine - Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa - find themselves in a similar situation.
According [...]

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It looks like Amazon have created their own Wikipedia clone. It is called Amapedia and although it is still in beta, the idea is a very good one.
A wiki for Amazon products not only gives us more information about the huge amount of books, DVDs and products they have but also allows Amazon to better [...]

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Another packed week for cinema releases in the UK but do watch out for an inspired performance from an aging legend and a disturbing low budget horror.
Blood Diamond is set amidst the conflict in Sierra Leone in the late 90s this drama sees Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), a mercenary turned diamond smuggler,  cross paths with [...]

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Up for discussion this week on the podcast are Blood Diamond (an action drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio), Bobby (a historical drama set around the assassination of Bobby Kennedy in 1968), Venus (a bittersweet comedy starring Peter O’Toole as an aging actor), The Fountain (an ambitious sci-fi drama set across three different time periods) and Them [...]

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