It was a big night for The Hurt Locker as it upset the biggie ‘Avatar’ at the awards, taking Best Picture, Director and Screenplay among others. The rest of the wins were deserved and expected like Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart, Christopher Waltz for Supporting Actor and Avatar for Visual Effects.

Read all the winners below along with our live stream and thoughts if you missed it.

Another great year in film has come to a triumphant end. 2009 gave us new classics and clunkers all at the same time. We at Me-Movies have awarded the best movies of the year, some of the worst, and a handful of special honors given to those special things of the year deserving of mention.

So here’s Me-Movies’ Best & Worst Of 2009!

The 6th Dubai International Film Festival came to an end last week, so we decided to run you through the best of what took place. Here we go:

Brothers has a compelling narrative hook at its core. The only problem is that it plays out too much like a heavy-handed family melodrama, otherwise Brothers is a thoughtful and tense war drama with top-grade performances by all three leads.

Original and thought-provoking science fiction films don’t come along often, but ‘Moon’ ranks among them and proves that some of the best films come outside of Hollywood. The debut by newcomer Duncan Jones is brilliant and atmospheric, featuring a master-class performance by Sam Rockwell as an isolated man.

City of Life, the UAE production helmed by an Emarati filmmaker, is history in the making. Being the first UAE big-budget production, the ensemble piece exceeds expectations with strong acting and visuals and successfully captures the essence of Dubai. No one could wish for a better launching pad for the local industry.

The singing and dancing Chipmunks are back just in time for the holidays in ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel’, a sequel that offers more of the same things that people loved about the original. The plot is threadbare and the characters stereotypical this time around, but kids are bound to love the cuteness overload and slapstick humor.

Did you get a chance to visit DIFF 09 and see some of your favorite movies? We did, and we will bring you exclusive movie reviews for some of the hottest releases we have seen including ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel’ and the much-anticipated UAE production ‘City of Life’. Also upcoming are reviews of ‘Moon’, ‘Brothers’, ‘The Princess and the Frog’ and the biggest movie of the year – ‘Avatar’! So check this space often!

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What better way to celebrate the season of Halloween than by watching plain old horror films? We at MeMovies have assembled a list of 10 horror movies for you this Halloween that you probably haven’t seen but should check them out the first chance you get. Move over the glossy studio remakes and sequels and endless cliches that you are forced to watch every season, these movies are bound to make creep you out on a whole new level. Are you ready?

Enter with caution : scares abound inside!

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Even though summer has been to a close, there are plenty of great movies coming your way by the end of 2009. We have compiled the best of the best movies that you should look forward to in the last 3 months of the year. From vampires to alien species to redemption to zombies, here are the top 10 most anticipated end of the year movies.

Disclaimer – We aren’t counting necessary sequels like “Saw VI” and “Alvin and the Chipmunks : The Squeakquel” because they will never live up to the originals. And some of these movies may be delayed here in the U.A.E to next year.

Let’s count them down after the jump!