Sunday evening, La soledad (Solitary Fragments) beat out
El Orfanato (The Orphanage) for best picture at the Goya Awards, Spain’s equivalent of the Oscars.
La soledad’s Jaime Rosales also won the best director prize while El Orfanato first-timer Juan Antonio Bayona won the award for best new director.
The Goya Awards were established in 1987. Last year, Pedro Almodovar’s [...]

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Watch out movie stars, Cloverfield is coming for you…Maybe. 
With the possible exception of financial reporting, the entertainment beat seems to be in a class of its own when it comes to seizing upon an item, spinning it into a phony trend and then spending untold numbers of column inches pondering the trend until the inevitable [...]

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