IO9 really likes Attack The Block. I'm curious.

Hm, that reminds me of all those eighties movies with kids fighting things, like The Monster Squad. Could be good.

Trailer for Snow Flower and the Secret Fan based on a book by Linda See and involving the secret Chinese women's writing.

Huh! I just read that.

10 potentially great sci-fi movies coming in 2011

I'm excited about Cowboys & Aliens, because that's what this country needs right now. The other ones I'll probably wait for the reviews....

I'm excited about Cowboys & Aliens

The trailer looked cool. Or that may just be Daniel Craig looking cool, but he does that.

Are they back on track with the next Bond film yet?

They showed the trailer for Cowboys & Aliens before Harry Potter last November, and that was the trailer that got the most buzz from the audience.

Are they back on track with the next Bond film yet?

Reportedly, yes -- but it'd be coming out late next year so it's early days.

Cracked takes on one of my recent cinematic beefs: digital color correction.

In a different article we find a cogent rant against "Everything Is Blue and Orange":

Speaking of blue, this might be the bluest movie ever made. I guess now is as good a time as any to address the tendency of filmmakers to color all their movies using just two crayons: blue and orange. If you’ve ever taken any sort of graphic design course, you’re probably familiar with color wheels, tools that allow a designer to sit in their chair for hours on end, staring at a rainbow. Some color theorist noticed, eventually, that certain colors are particularly striking when paired with certain other colors, and specifically, you can match up the color on one side of the color wheel with a color on the opposite side, and the resulting contrast is striking indeed. And, not coincidentally, in exact opposite spaces on the color wheel is where you’ll find orange and blue. When computer assisted color correction meant that any jackass with a mouse could make his movie any color he wanted, instead of having to do it via lighting or expensive, complicated pre-computer era methods. This ushered in the era of extremely boring looking movies, where every single film we endure is either green/yellow, blue/orange, or that washed out sort of brownish-white. If you are charitable, this color correction is done, however lazily, to invoke a certain mood. If you are less charitable, those movie making assholes are doing it because every other movie making asshole is doing it.

Blue-orange has emerged as one of the most dramatic color contrasts, and as a result, you will find it absolutely fucking everywhere, both in the movies and on the posters. And once you notice it for the first time, you will never be able to stop noticing it. Eventually, you will go mad, and your relatives will have you committed to a Victorian-style madhouse, where you will crouch in the corner of your padded room, coloring every surface in the room blue and orange. The abuse of the blue-orange color palette is so rampant that, ultimately, I have to give up raging against it, because even filmmakers I like tend to fall back on exploiting it. I guess we’ll all just have to reconcile ourselves to the fact that our movies will only be blue/orange, yellow/green, or gray/brown from here on out, and using a full spectrum of color was nothing more than an ill-conceived dalliance among naive filmmakers who thought color films should be color.

Jennifer Lawrence has been cast as Katniss in The Hunger Games.