I'm looking forward to "The Ten." Radosh calls it "a smart comedy about dumb comedy" that will "bomb[] in the theaters because the jokes will be way too obscure for the masses (both in terms of references and sensibility)." My kind of blurb. [Radosh; IMDB]

It's interesting how so many movies I like are just absolutely buried by their movie studio: "Idiocracy" and "Children of Men" just in the last year. (Throw in "Brazil" for a full-fledged studio-buried-dystopia film festival.) Slim and I also liked the black comedy "Pretty Persuasion," which critics just loathed, and disappeared from the theaters with next to no publicity. Netflix saves many of these movies.

Retconning "Star Wars" (via Cowen).

Via Kirkendall, the Houston Chronicle profiles Trey Wilson, the Bellaire High graduate who played Nathan Arizona in the great "Raising Arizona." Wilson, who had other character-actor roles, would've been one of the greats in the Coen Brothers troupe, but died suddenly of an arterial vascular malformation in his brain at the age of 40. Albert Finney took the role he would have had in "Miller's Crossing."

How Borat was written. Not mentioned: how the WGA nomination is meant to raise public awareness of WGA claims to the right to have reality television shows subject to WGA union rules. (Which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if it reduces the incentive to use reality tv instead of scripted comedies and drama.)

Relatedly: Baron Cohen thanks, inter alia, the writers. And a YouTube of a post-Globes conference.