Tommy Lee Jones is the understated soul of "No Country For Old Men" (2007), a down home tale of our times. hells bells, it's crazy good.

first impression: "Rome" (2005) is a soft-porn soap opera, garnished with political intrigue and combat, smothered in British accents.

starting to watch "Rome" (HBO 2005), from the beginning. have you seen it? will it sustain interest?

"The Changling" (1980) is your customary mystery-horror tale, unencumbered by natural dialog, novel narrative, artful effects, or a finale.

thinking how horror films demand poetic and metaphoric imagery, to lure the mind into fantasm.

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (2009) is 40% magic, 30% high school soap opera, 20% comedy, 8% mourning, 2% teaser for next film.

"Did Opening Night Twitter Reviews Sink Bruno’s Weekend Box Office?" (via Mashable http://bit.ly/hPuTe, Time http://bit.ly/YikLw)

"Media companies are in the service business, not the content business." - Andrew Savikas http://bit.ly/SJsvv (RT @ZuluKane)

watching "LA Confidential" with no dialog, only soundtrack, while working into the wee hours.

“All I am is what I’m going after.” - Michael Mann, via @Gruber quoting from "Heat" (1995), aka why i read http://ping.fm/w2QOW

did you hear @WHYY "Fresh Air" review of "Playing Shakespeare" DVD? interesting for actors, directors, theatre lovers. http://bit.ly/4iKRol

stumbled upon more real life colleagues now on Twitter. hello @DAfilms, @Silhouette1, @QuickLad and @PRafferty!

"to the sounds of waves / that come and go, migrating / birds find their hearts drawn." - Ganymede Elegy #haiku (http://bit.ly/1tqzdq)

the classiest "Cowboy Bebop" (1998) episodes have a melancholy sensibility worthy of great film noir from the '40s. (http://bit.ly/1tqzdq)

the BBC's "Alleyn Mysteries" (1990) are like charcoal caricatures of murder suspects rendered on a backdrop of painterly tracking shots.