Goatdog a top ten list. But not the kind you usually get. Top ten rentals. I love this listWord Smoker a sharp 'five second review' of Let the Right One InIn Contention the makeup finalists for Oscar. I think this is the first year where they can't embarrass themselves with their final nominees. These are all good choices.The Flick Filosopher "the merely very good movies of 2008"Cinema Styles talks about the Supporting and Lead categorizations and what they mean in terms of Protagonist/Antagonist. Interesting stuff and not as strident as ...

Charges against Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright over a bar fight in Shreveport, Louisiana in Julywill be dropped providing the actors pay their court costs of $130 each, following a court hearing today: "The actors were with crew members from the Oliver Stone movie 'W.' about President George W. Bush. Police arrived after one crew member caused a fracas and was asked to leave. Police pepper-sprayed both Brolin and Wright, while Wright was also hit with an electric shock from a Taser weapon, Berk said. Prosecutors were not immediately available to comment." A video also emerged today shot by ...

The NYT runs some excerpts from Dustin Lance Black's Milk screenplay in conjunction with an article about the recent spate of historical biopics, highlighting Milk, W, and Che, noting the various screenwriters' working processes. According to the NYT, "[Black] ended up talking to some 40 people, including Anne Kronenberg, Milk’s campaign manager (now a San Francisco public health official), and Danny Nicoletta, a photographer who worked in Milk’s camera store. Because his subjects were often recounting decades-old moments that were semi-forgotten or had calcified into myth, Mr. Black developed a strategy of pairing them up, 'so they could ...