1. Twister. Michael Clayton and Duplicity director (and Bourne screenwriter) Tony Gilroy gets the full New Yorker treatment. He seems to hate nearly everyone he's worked with! ["For the next 'Bourne,' Universal invited back Damon and Gilroy but looked for a new director. The studio offered the write...

New iPod Shuffle - Apple has quietly released a new, smaller shuffle with more memory. It’s about half the size of the 2G shuffle with twice the memory (4gigs). It is sleek looking with a few caveats. One is price ($80, considering cost of memory should be $50 or less), and another is control is d...

1. As noted by Eric Kohn at indieWIRE, a series of films (or videos) by House founder Matt Zoller Seitz and House contributor Kevin B Lee will be screened in Berlin on April 17th. Embedded above, as you can see, is Kevin's solo commentary-film about Sam Raimi's Evil Dead II, which, with its brevity ...

1. The Raiders Story Conference. Mystery Man on Film tracks down a 125-page PDF featuring Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan shooting the shit as they try to nail down what, exactly, their new Indiana Smith movie is going to be. Mystery Man contributes his ten screenwriting lessons t...

1. It's Watchmen day, kiddos. Watch (LOLZ!) for some takes from House contributors in the days to come. The video above is apparently part of the film's genuinely fascinating viral marketing campaign (which, honestly, may end up being more fascinating than the film itself), which has also included t...

1. News is flying all over the place about Terrence Malick's upcoming film, Tree of Life , which stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain and a bunch of dinosaurs, apparently. It's also three movies, according to Empire? And Ain't It Cool News says Douglas Trumbull is doing the special effects? ...

Apple Refreshes Computer Line - Without any fan fare, Apple announced that it has updated its Mac Pro, iMac, Mac Mini and the Time Capsule to new specs and mostly the same prices. If you’re in the market for one it is good news, if you just bought one, my condolences. Limbaugh, New Anointed Leader...

RIAA Layoffs Tomorrow - In what is probably an exaggeration, sites are reporting that the RIAA, the music labels corporate entity that exists to protect their archaic business model by any means necessary, is finally feeling the financial pinch as 100+ are laid off. Normally I don't like news of peo...

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1. Dictaphone Diaries : an interview with the director of Must Read After My Death , by Kjerstin Johnson at Bitch Magazine. As somebody perpetually puzzled by the navigation of the first person in art, a kind of diaristic documentary such as this intrigues me. Also, you can watch it online, which si...