- an excellent Jarvis Cocker (Pulp's leading man) video for his new single "Don't Let Him Waste Your Time."

- Indiewire has your Canne Film Fest info. Helluva line-up this year.

- Susan King of the LATS talks to Eddie Mueller, the best I have read on Film noir, about the retro in LA running through May 2nd:   "that one of the differences between New York and LA noir is that in the former, 'the characters want to escape the big city, the teeming metropolis. In LA, you get to the Promised Land and you realize there's no escape. I find the most effective LA noirs are always set in places where there is an horizon, which you don't see in New York noir.'"

- Matt Zoller Seitz of The House Next Door reviews one of the great underappreciated war films of the ’70s, Stuart Cooper’s 1975 Overlord. I really want to see this.