Everybody’s Talkin’ 1 – 17 (Chatter from Other Bloggers)

Every so often when I’m commuting back and forth, my bag sits in such a way that Chaplin appears to be peeking out over my lapel. I won’t pretend that it doesn’t make me smile every time.

I’ll be recording the Oscar nominee episode of The Matineecast tonight, but yesterday morning I was reminded of something I’d almost forgotten…that on days like Nomination Day, I should steer clear of Twitter. Besides the fact that everybody seems to start yelling at once, nobody in my feed seems to be pleased about what goes down. I’ll never understand how people can wax poetic about the soup they’re having for lunch day-in and day-out, but can’t find one nominee amongst the dozens that makes them happy.

We’re now almost three weeks in, but can I make one suggestion in light of changing attitudes with the arrival of a new year?

Look at your Twitter feed.

Seriously look at it. Take a moment and read them all…one after the other…strung together…and consider the frequency of their time stamps. In other words, read what you’ve written the way your followers would read them – and then consider that your followers might not follow all that many feeds, so your tweets might well be bunched up the way you are seeing them. How do you come across? How does that sit with you?

Just a thought and a suggestion as one who believes Twitter is capable of better things.

As for this week, it was a good’n around the feeds I follow – and even a week in which I followed a few new feeds!

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For your listening and reading fulfilment, I give you…

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Lately as I grocery shop, I tend to get stares from my fellow shoppers. They wonder why it is that the guy with the earbuds is giggling to himself in the cereal aisle. If they could only hear what I hear! What I hear is the lads from GMan Reviews cutting me up weekly, and this week they get 2014 started by examining one of last year’s best rom-coms, ENOUGH SAID.

Clearly the most important review to drop this week comes from Mettel Ray. You see, she is the first of us to experience NYMPHOMANIAC in all its glory. Considering that many of us may never see the film in the manner she saw it, I vote we all bookmark her post for future reference. After all, when the rest of us get to see some version of it down the line, it will be very handy to compare notes with “someone who saw it when”.

Dan Heaton has made some 2014 film-watching resolutions. Anybody else made any? Mine involve trying to be more positive, finishing off the Wilder filmography I began more than a year ago, and getting a healthy dose of Lubitsch.

If you are one of those who was surprised INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS didn’t get more love from Oscar yesterday morning, well you can’t say I didn’t warn you. I adore so much about the film, but in the same breath I can see how the movie wouldn’t connect with people. This week, Kate Bradford jotted down her thoughts about it…which I especially enjoyed reading since she watched it while sitting next to me.

I started following a new site this week called The Verbal Spew Review. The page is run by a passionate lass (known only as “V”) from Ireland, and it’s a great example of the sort of cinematic passion I look for in a blog. This week, she did a post comparing MONSTERS U and DESPICABLE ME 2, seeing if the gap between their financial success and critical reception was justified.

Ever wonder what people mean when they refer to “scene chewing”? Malloy has you covered.

Some writers have a wonderfully clever way of writing about films – they go beyond the standard review/reaction that most of us cling to. One such writer is Andina at Inspired Ground, who this week posted 12 Things She Learned from BLUE JASMINE.

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For the tweet of The Week, Samuel Adams has fun with one of the dregs of this bitterly cold winter season at the cinema:

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Do I need to see A thru H, FRANKENSTEIN first?

— Sam Adams (@SamuelAAdams) January 16, 2014

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Enjoy!