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--- A Pinch of Fincher - Didja hear The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is coming out a day early? That means it's out today, by the way. I just heard this, which makes my "early" screening of the film last night seem slightly less exciting. But the film is good! I will try and review it later today, if I get the chance. (So so busy.) But because that movie's out David Fincher's been making the press rounds, and you can read several stories of interest over at Slash - Here's what he would have done if he'd ultimately gotten to make a Spider-Man movie like he almost did! Here's an update on several things he's working on, including his long-gestating adaptation of Charles Burns' brilliant graphic novel Black Hole! And here's Tattoo's screenwriter Steven Zaillan talking about how he wants to do the remake of Timecrimes really badly!

--- Pretty Pretty - I hope y'all have been keeping up with Club Silencio's Obscure Beauty series, because it's exceedingly pleasurable. Adam seems to be on a giallo slash Bava kick and there be great wads of prettiness to gawk at.

--- Cine-manna - Twitch gives us word of several exciting classics that'll be screening at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in January and February, including ones by Fassbinder and Herzog, so this is heaven for me, and that is what matters.

--- Woody's Women - This is super fun - EW got a list from Woody Allen of the five classic film actresses that he'd have loved to work with. Just close your eyes and picture Bette Davis doing a Woody Allen movie, and find nirvana there.

--- Knight Writer - I feel ridiculous for not having written anything much on the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, but time really has been too scarce this week. Thankfully Nat did it for me slash everyone with his Yes No maybe So take on it over at The Film Experience. Also, io9 goes through it via screencaps. I mean... is there anybody who isn't going to see this movie? I ask that genuinely - even though I think The Dark Knight is far from perfect, and even though I couldn't understand half the word coming out of Tom Hardy's face, and even though it seems like there are way way too many characters, I simply cannot imagine missing the movie, it's unfathomable to me, and I know this means I've been brainwashed, but there it is.

--- Miss Three Hundred - Eva Greensleeves (her name has become that in my head permanently because my boyfriend's obsessed with the fact that she's always wearing long sleeves, which makes her a better person, natch) is going to play the villainess Artemisia in the sequel to 300, probably. She sounds like a female version of the gold-spackled Xerxes. Mmm Rodrgio Santoro in his golden underpants...

--- Turn of the Century Killer - A writer's been hired to adapt the terrific book The Devil in the White City into a movie for Leonardo Dicaprio to play the serial killer H.H. Holmes. I very much enjoyed this book and would very much like to see it adapted into a movie, if only to see the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 recreated. 

--- Enter Elevenses - Rumors be swirling that the trailer or the teaser trailer or perhaps a trailer for the teaser trailer or who knows for The Hobbit Part Uno will show up somewhere someplace today. And here I forgot to bring my hairy hobbitses feet to work just in case!

--- Just Jessica - First it happened with David O. Russell's Nailed, but that got swallowed up into nothingness, but here's the second time I find myself amazed to be really anticipating a movie starring Jessica Biel. She does absolutely nothing for me as an actress, but this being French director Pascal Laugier's follow-up to  the horror masterpiece Martyrs, I don't really have a choice. It's called The Tall Man (I've spoken of it before), and BD has a couple new Biel-riffic pics from it.

--- Winter Is Here - If you're as anxious as I am for something anything Song of Ice and Fire related now that you've read all the books and the show's not back on HBO for a few months, then you could find no better outlet than a podcast starring friend and ASOIAF obsessive Sean T. Collins.

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