First things first – any Toronto folk who are looking for a dose of
filmgoing fa-la-la-la-la, The Bloor will be showing IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE this coming Wednesday at 7pm. Lindsay and I will be there (as is our annual custom). If you feel like joining us, the more the merrier!

I have bits and pieces of two separate reviews in my head…tonight I’ll add a third…and then I’ll blur it all the more with a midnight podcast. Pour it all over ice and shake well with shopping, socializing, and drinking and you have the festive mush that is my brain these days.

(Remind me why I’m trying to blog through the holidays again?)

For your reading fulfillment, I give you…

Pretty sure I’ve already chosen a BLACK SWAN review for E-T this month, but I need to choose one more. Wide Screen World’s post about the Aronofsky film is a wonderful take, because beyond offering “one more opinion” of the film, he takes you into the entire experience of going to see the film in Manhattan. As an aficionado not only of what we see, but how we see them, this is wonderful brain candy.

We’re into full on year-in-review mode these days, and in that vein Univarn is looking at the year’s offerings in the subtle art of the tagline.

It’s the holidays: a time of year where many of us drink a bit more than we usually would. As if to remind herself not to go overboard, The Flick Chick watched LEAVING LAS VEGAS.

Bob is having a lot of fun creating montages, and his latest one is quite pretty. Take a look at Any Colour You Like.

Got a sneak peek at TRUE GRIT last weekend. I haven’t finished my review just yet, but The Film Forager has something better. She offers up a review of the film and also a review of its original source material. Indeed, she took in a TRUE GRIT/TRUE GRIT double-feature.

Enjoy!