AFI'd out after Silverdocs? Let Cillian Murphy resuscitate your interest. His work in the British zombie film 28 Days Later, which kicked off the Unholy Zombie Cinema Revival, is cutting edge even by George Romero's indeterminable standards. City Lights contributor Matt Siblo digs a little deeper in his pick for tonight, arguing that the movie's [...]

If there's one thing we all learned from the Grammys' star-studded death rattle, it's that award shows which attempt to program the tastes of the nation are on their way out. (How many of your friends actually agreed that Coldplay's Viva la Vida was the best rock album of the year?)
So the fact that this [...]

Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle and distributor Fox Searchlight released a statement today responding to accusations that the filmmakers did not adequately compensate Rubiana Ali and Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, the adorable kids who played two of the main characters as youngsters.
The Mumbai-set film is up for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, but has been [...]

The Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association today announced its pick of Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire as Best Film of 2008, additionally awarding it Best Director (Danny Boyle), Best Breakthrough Performance (Dev Patel), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Simon Beaufoy).
Other notable nods include a posthumous Best Supporting Actor win for Heath Ledger, whose creepy, mesmerizing Joker [...]

Well, depending on how you look at it: Danny Boyle's latest about an Indian teenager who hits it big on his country's version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is not likely to bring in $900+ million before it even hits DVD.
But according to indieWIRE, Slumdog Millionaire's per-screen box office over its opening weekend [...]