Over Thinking It attempts to shove all summer movies into one multi-chapter film
Final Girl's Film Club does Food of the Gods. I have seen this one though I can't figure out / remember under what circumstances that could possibly have come to pass
Twitch @ TIFF: Michael Winterbottom's Genova (starring Colin Firth) is "unnerving"
Defamer's "A Call to the Bullpen" mistreats Keira and Ralph. But with such funny
Guardian Ben Child thinks The Fountain's epic failure was just what Aronofsky needed to make the so far very well received The Wrestler. But I still can't join that 'hate The Fountain bandwagon. It's too shiny/pretty/audacious to hate.
GreenCine Daily Fox Searchlight wins The Wrestler bidding war
Movie Marketing Madness reveals a quirkily endearing reason why Twilight doesn't interest him: iPod earbuds.
I thought I'd close with a link to Lou Lumenick's blog @ the NY Post because it's almost a perfect distillation of what I was talking about just Sunday night, the overuse of definitive words like "lock" and "sure thing" in Oscar conversations before the holidays even arrive. While it's great fun to read buzzy bits like these, almost every post details a new Oscar nomination sure thing... for example: Rourke, Del Toro, and Greg Kinnear are all locked up for Best Actor contention according to L.L. (that leaves only 2 spots to be filled by about 12 other movie stars and Richard Jenkins if you're counting ...but who's counting? Obviously not anybody who is calling "locks" already) Between Keira Knightley's 2nd nod and Anne Hathaway's "clinched" nomination Best Actress 2008 is filling up too.Basically we're at 50% capacity and TIFF is only halfway over! There's just not going to be any room for any holiday movies in the Oscar nominations this year I guess. Calm down people! Oh but wait, he does. In a fit of restraint Lou actually questions the rampant BP buzz for Slumdog Millionaire and thinks it's more of a wait and see. That seems sensible. He does feel it's got a Best Original Screenplay nod in the bag, though.
