• Bruce McDonald talks about Trigger, This Movie Is Broken and a Hard Core Logo Sequel
  “For many years we’ve been talking about doing a follow-up [to Hard Core Logo]. Hugh and Callum have both been super busy so we thought that while we were waiting — and waiting to see if Joe Dick comes back from the dead — we could take some of the minor characters from the first movie and put them in the foreground. So Bucky Haight, who is their mentor in the original, becomes one of the major characters. I become a major character, too — I play the filmmaker who filmed the onscreen suicide of the unfortunate Joe Dick and who’s wracked with guilt. Care Failure and her band Die Mannequin play themselves — they’re recording an album with Bucky and I’m documenting it. She’s been channeling the spirit of Joe Dick — he’s writing songs through her. It’s crazy but it’s essentially the story of them making a record in this old dancehall in northern Saskatchewan.”
• Do Movies Matter Anymore? Steven Soderbergh Doesn’t See Any Evidence They Do
  “It was odd to see people who allegedly are pro-cinema, kind of rooting against Che conceptually. Taking the position of why would somebody make a movie of this length and try and release it this way? My attitude is, well, why wouldn’t you encourage somebody to do something that’s out of the box? Whether you like the movie or not — you can not like the movie — but it was odd to see people slamming the idea of making it.”
• The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights [review]
  It’s been a while (about 6 months actually), but Andrew finally got around to writing up a review for the rock doc showcasing The White Stripes tour about Canada. It’s over at the MorePop page
• The Decade’s 30 Best Long Tail Films
  Pretty much every movie related website on the Internet has come up with some sort of Best of the Decade list over the past month. But while the majority of them focused on straight up “Best of” lists, in the spirit of [Where The Long Tail Ends] that I would instead focus on the lesser known films that have been made over the past ten years.”
• Is Avatar the Oscar Villain?
  “Almost any good story has to have a great villain in order for it to work. And the best thing about the Oscars — because they’re so darn predictable these days — is the narrative. But we still need a villain, don’t we? For some people, Avatar is that villain. Right now the Oscar race is shaping up to be the two-billion-dollar-movie versus The Hurt Locker, a film that managed only $16 million … worldwide. The problem is this: Avatar is not the general audience’s villain and those are the people the Oscar telecast is hoping to pull in. On a superficial level, though, Avatar is a marvelous stand-in for Darth Vader. In a way, it reminds me of another imperial franchise, the New York Yankees.”

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