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Regardless of stubbornness, the Republican primary election could last forever because of math.

Milch’s racetrack is a microcosm of late-capitalist America’s death throes, the dark mirror of Deadwood’s exuberant robber-baron petri dish. —Matt Zoller Seitz on ‘Luck [New York Magazine]

Andy Baio’s eighth year of investigating the speed at which Oscar-nominated films leak onto the internet. Screener leaks are way down and camcorder leaks are less common (and/or less popular). 

(graph from Pirating the Oscars 2012: Ten Years of Data - Waxy.org)

Despite their very limited successes, this kind of data makes you wonder what Hollywood is thinking with their increasing efforts to delay the availability of legal copies of films on Netflix — a new agreement will impose a 56 day delay in adding films to a queue [LATimes via appleoutsider/theloop] — some sort of bizarre effort to promote DVD sales. 

twenty minutes in, when the Jack Russell looks at the camera and ‘says’ this … you LOL instead of killing yourself. Now THAT’s movie magic.

(Gabe Liedman considers the overlooked Oscars [;Videogum])

tylercoates:

dandaddario:

Everything about this photo sums up the flaws of The Artist—straining as hard as it can to make you love it, pathetic in all senses of the term. They’re not reaching out; they’re grasping.

The Artist is Singing’ in the Rain for people who hate musicals.

… I thought that it was supposed to be A Star Is Born for people who hate talkies?

I so very badly want to know the distribution of vote totals for today’s Oscar nominations just to see how the instant runoff voting and 5% rule worked. Like, just how hard would it have been for Scott Rudin to get 300 people to cast a first preference ballot for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close? 

And further down the list, what happened in the Original Song category? Only two (or maybe just one?) song of the 39 shortlisted got the required 8.25 to qualify. Yay for Flight of the Concords, but too bad for the National, Jonsi, and Elton John, I guess.

The Awl: You aren’t snotty about keeping books in good condition, you acknowledge that dogears and scribbled notes are healthy, but you have a few special editions you’d only lend out to a very close friend.
— “What Your Favorite Blog Says About You” [Slacktory]

Illustrated check at Bathtub Gin. My drink was called the falcon & snowman. How could I resist?

After seeing Haywire tonight, I think we found excuses for most the plot convolutions and acting flaws, but even when they don’t add up to all that much, Steven Soderberg has a way of making solidly entertaining movies. 

(via Movie Poster Awards Gallery)

arresteddownton:

(thanks to youaremystick!)

so many aLOLs.

Happy to see that my other top Arrested Development quotes are well represented. Including such hits as: ”Marry Me”, “Her?”, “I don’t understand the question and I won’t respond to it”, “Everything they do is so dramatic and flamboyant…”.

For a movie starring Sylar and Dan Humphrey as investment analysts, Margin Call was surprisingly good airplane viewing. (via Internet Movie Poster Awards Gallery)