Stephen Daldry

The boys may get all the press in the Tony Award-winning musical Billy Elliot, but anyone who has seen the show knows veteran character actor Gregory Jbara subtly steals the show.

Before the awards went on, I hit the red carpet and the pre-show Lipton Gift Lounge and got some insight.

Supporters and producers of "The Reader" are hitting back at criticisms of the Oscar-nominated film and speaking out for the film, just two days befor...

It never crossed my mind that I would ever speak or write negatively about the work of a fellow filmmaker. I am sure the makers of The Reader are not deniers. But they are helping those who are.

Kate Winslet: "All that mattered at the end of the day was that I made [Hannah Schmitz] my own and...played the... the truthfulness of that, the vulnerability of her and that I understood her."

On the whole David Hare has written a fascinating and engrossing script, and Director Stephen Daldry has given us a taut and emotional filmmaking achievement.

Michael functions as a metaphor for his generation: like post-war Germany, he is drawn to this secretive emblem of the past, then repulsed, and finally makes a wary accommodation.

The Germans have a word for it: Vergangenheitsbewaltigung -- more or less, "coming to terms with the past." It's not an easy concept to translate into...

The Reader? It's goodish. And Kate Winslet is, as ever, brilliant. And it has Nazis, which elevates it on the Oscar nom scale. But it doesn't fully address the fact that Michael is a victim of abuse.