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6 months ago 02nd Dec 10:29
So after the blockbuster and festive themed movies of Christmas it's time to get back to the serious business of picking out who is going to scoop the Oscar gongs, and January is full of potential winners.
Leading the way in the Oscar race of the new year is Kate Winslet's Holocaust drama The Reader, a mesmerizing story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, set against the landscape of post-war Germany.
When he falls ill on his way home from school, 15 year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna (Kate Winslet), a woman twice his age.
The two begin an unexpected and passionate affair only for Hanna to suddenly and inexplicably disappear. Eight years later, Michael, now a young law student observing Nazi war trials, meets his former lover again, under very different circumstances.
Hanna is on trial for a hideous crime, and as she refuses to defend herself, Michael gradually realizes his boyhood love may be guarding a secret she considers to be more shameful than murder.
Winslet is hotly tipped to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, it would be her sixth Oscar nomination.
The Spirit may not be competing for Oscars but it's one of the most highly anticipated movies at the beginning of 2009. Adapted from the legendary graphic novels, Will Eisner's The Spirit is a classic action-adventure-romance told by genre twister Frank Miller, creator of Sin City and 300.
It's the story of a former rookie cop who returns mysteriously from the dead as The Spirit (Gabriel Macht) to fight crime from the shadows of Central City. His arch enemy the Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson) has a different mission: he's going to wipe out Spirit's beloved city as he pursues his own immortality.
Other releases this week include the first part of Seven Soderburgh's biopic of Che Guevara in The Argentine as well as comedy Role Models and Disney movie Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
Frost/Nixon leads the way in the political picture stakes as Michael Sheen and Frank Langella take on the roles of chatshow host David Frost and President Richard Nixon.
Frost/Nixon is a big screen adaptation of the play which in turn was inspired by one of television's most iconic interviews in 1977 between chatshow host David Frost and disgraced US President Richard Nixon as 45 million people tuned in to see if Frost could get an apology out of Nixon over the Watergate scandal that rocked American politics.
British picture Slumdog Millionaire is also released this week as Danny Boyle returns to the big screen with a harsh look at life in India.
The film follows Jamal Malik, an eighteen year old orphan from the slums of Mumbai who is on the verge of winning Who Wants to be A Millionaire? But when the show breaks for the night police arrest him on suspicion of cheating: how could a street kid know so much?
Desperate to prove his innocence Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local groups and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost.
It gained major support on the festival circuit and won three British Independent Film Award gongs, including Best British Independent Film.
Also released in this week is comedy Bride Wars, war movie Defiance, and The Road
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