Catch up on some reading

The film that bumped crowd favorites The Dark Knight and Wall-E from contention for Best Picture, not only should be good, it better be good. Oscar-nominee The Reader is playing now in Baton Rouge at Rave Motion Picture Mall of Louisiana 15. Kate Winslet, in her critically acclaimed role, plays a German woman who falls into a passionate affair with the teenage boy she nursed back to health in Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry’s new post-WWII drama. But there are secrets between the teenager and his older muse, and years later they are reunited when the boy is a law student and Winslet is on trial for war crimes. Ralph Fiennes and Jeanette Hain co-star. Rated R.