- Intriguing news, even if just a rumour. PT Anderson might be considering a script from-set down your coffee- from Variety's Peter Bart (!) about the war between the casinos and Native Americans called Power Play with Jack Nicholson  possibly attached. Check out Cigarettes and Red VInes and HE for more.

- Filmmaker/Writer David Lowery reviews Carlos Reygadas's Silent Night for Hammer to Nail.

- Our web serial Masher will be up very soon. Promises, promises, I know, but we did run into some bumps in the road in the form of a flying Gus, day-job intrusions, lost weekends, etc., but we are on track now.

DVD reccos: Blast of Silence, early noir minamalism; and the Romanian  07 Palmd'Or  winner,4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, which the lovely Ms. Dargis called "a ferocious, unsentimental, often brilliantly directed film about a young woman who helps a friend secure an abortion, the camera doesn’t follow the action, it expresses consciousness itself. "