Today we're talking political movies and TV series. Do you have a favourite? Do you get enough grimy political manoeuvring in the news already? Let us know.

Daniel Day Lewis walked out of the Academy Awards with a well deserved grin on his face, as Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln biopic netted him another award and further proof that he may just be one of the greatest actors alive today. I tried to watch the film on a flight back home last month, but any Oscar-worthy moments were drowned …

Stop reading right now if you’re planning on watching a delayed broadcast of this year’s Oscars on TV this evening. The 85th Academy Awards ceremony – this year presented by Seth “Family Guy” MacFarlane – has just wrapped in Los Angeles, capping off another season of  black-tie awards events, envelope openings and overblown acceptance speeches. Last Updated: February 25, 2013

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Thanks to a little American tradition known as the Superbowl weekend, cinemas were relatively quiet while teams of brightly dressed men rammed into each other in order to retrieve a pig-skin. Thus, while fans sat in bars and lounges dining on fine gourmet meals such as barbecue chicken wings and beer in a can, movies were neglected. Still, there were …

Five new films open in South African cinemas today, including 2 that are up for multiple awards at this year’s Academy Awards. Lincoln: Leading this year’s Oscar race with 12 nominations, and a ton of other awards, is this historical drama from director Steven Spielberg. Daniel Day-Lewis plays America’s greatest president in the last 4 months of his life – …

The Screen Actors Guild Awards – which, if the name wasn’t a dead giveaway, ditches all the technical stuff and focuses on the performances of actors/actresses, as voted for by their acting peers – took place last night.  As one of the last major awards show before the big daddy of them all, the Oscars, the SAG’s are always a …

Four score and seven years ago, give or take about seventy five years, acclaimed director and proud beard cultivator Steven Spielberg began the daunting task of bringing to life on screen the 16th President of the United States of America, and owner of possibly America’s most famous beard, Abraham Lincoln. Spielberg immediately reached out to one man to portray the iconic president. …