- Charlton Heston died last weekend.
- Prompting Kevin to recall the best trailer mashup of all time.
- And making it a bad (or good) time to announce a new Ben-Hur miniseries dedicated to his honor.
- On Film Couch: Indie cinema has become cliched.
- Karina attended the Sarasota Film Festival, where she reviewed Throw Down Your Heart and Spine Tingler: The William Castle Story and they paid tribute to Liv Ullman.
- Then she went directly to the Moving Image Institute in Film Criticism and Feature Writing.
- Meanwhile she found time to pre-order the Mister Lonely book tie-in.
- A few anticipated films allowed our expectations to be lowered a bit, as Maggie Gyllenhaal dumbed down the Dark Knight marketing campaign and a script leak dumbed down Oliver Stone’s Bush biopic.
- I support Uwe Boll’s filmmaking (however, the number of people who want him to die stop making films is now up to 180,000).
- Congratulations to the Webby nominees.
- Pierrot Belmondo is 75.
- Errol Morris makes fiction comedically while James Cameron makes 3D seriously.
- New York was only well represented on film in the 70s. Undestroyed, anyway.
- Watch an Alicia Keys documentary for free.
- Watch a Kanye West video using 2046 footage he may have gotten for free.
- Watch an unspectacular yet wonderful clip from Tarsem’s The Fall.
