Let's Do the Link Warp Again

A note for  impatient readers: My top ten list is coming (I'm aiming for January 1st / 2nd) but first there's a couple year in reviews things and an interview with Kirsten Dunst. The new site will be up soon, too. Hopefully everything will be running smoothly within the next week.

Vulture Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu speaks out. Good read. I especially liked the Woody Allen bits.
/Film Remember when Buried won that surprise NBR Screenplay award. That's not the end of the film's Oscar campaign story...
Wired Patton Oswalt (The United States of Tara) asks for the death/rebirth of geek culture by ETEWAF (Everything That Ever Was... Available Forever). Really interesting piece, especially if you're feeling burnt out by the internet's constant regurgitation of past things and repurposing of newish things.
Playbill has a list of a ton of people's favorite theater moments of the year. I wish I could still afford theater. [sniffle]
Towleroad my weekly article with a teensy bit on the "depressing" double of Rabbit Hole and Blue Valentine.
Cinema Blend Casper the Friendly Ghost is coming back to the movies. In Related News: Hollywood isn't even trying anymore. True story: I saw the Christina Ricci Casper (1995) at the drive-in and my best friend cried and we all made fun of him for weeks afterwards.

Three random questions:

1. Do you think Anne Hathaway is pissed that her Oscar co-host gets the EW cover but Natalie Portman gets what would then, symmetrically speaking, be hers? 
2. Will there be a single day in 2011 where we aren't staring at Natalie Portman's mug?
3. Was there a day in 2010 when we didn't see James Francos?

offscreen

The Awl Call this next year twenty-eleven, please not "two thousand eleven". A compelling funny argument.

We all go a little link sometimes

Antenna looks at the year in Bollywood box office. Not a pretty story
Pussy Goes Grrrr on loving Julianne Moore
Mr Hipp "we all go a little mad sometimes"
If Charlie Parker... Sir Ian McKellen before and after.
popbytes Clint Eastwood wants Joaquin Phoenix and Leonardo DiCaprio as lovers for the Hoover biopic.


Twitch a teaser poster for Wong Kar Wai's The Grand Master
popbytes Kate Winslet's new man
Empire wait... they're still trying to make Ender's Game into a movie? Give it up already. Love the book but I am most decidedly not down with Gavin Hood after that atrocious Wolverine movie.
/Film four people watch Buried...while buried. That is SO not right as promotional events go. Shudder.
Serious Film thinks that Jesse Eisenberg is getting an Oscar nomination for The Social Network. Hmmm, I can't see it yet (the nomination, not the film. I see the film very soon)
Some Came Running brief notes to prepare you in the watching of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Damn, I wish I'd read this before the movie. Actually, I don't. I like to go to movies as blind as possible as to their content. But if you like a little more of an inkling, this is a good users manual.