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looks like an interesting effort to profit from other people's micro-reviews: @FilmReviewFri http://ping.fm/aqwgQ filmreview

"the original Night of the Living Dead: raw but pure with great storytelling. deserves it cult-classic status." - @jasonmatzner filmreview

a collection of movie title stills, curated by @MovieTitles: http://ping.fm/4WOdE (via @TheCurator)

a successful pilot episode stands alone as a story -- a story which introduces characters and dynamics we want to see again. television

in just 50 min "Poirot" #1 makes familiar the core cast, paints the period, throws in a news reel, rivalry, quips--and solves a mystery.

having seen several sporadic and random episodes over the years, tonight watching the first episode of David Suchet as "Poirot" (1989).

"We have a better chance of seeing a 2.40 film from 1959 in its proper format than a movie from 2009. That’s weird and sad." - S. Soderbergh

"...in the same breath you are told viewers notice the difference enough to complain about it." - Steven Soderbergh http://bit.ly/16AiZ4

"you are told you shouldn’t care whether your 2.40 film is turned into a 1.78 film because there really isn’t that much of a difference..."

reading Steven Soderbergh's "Format Wars" in DGA Quarterly. http://bit.ly/16AiZ4

queuing classic cinema in Netflix Instant Watch.

well into a "Lost" season 3 marathon.

"Guns, Germs and Steel" (2005) concludes with a forced smile, after 3 hours documenting Jared Diamond's thesis of predestined happenstance.

Mark Romanek's "One Hour Photo" (2002) is a fair first feature; fun to see Robin Williams in a creepy dramatic role.

watched Harold Ramis' "Groundhog Day" (1993), for the first time. (my bookmarks http://bit.ly/fGr98)

my most repeated mistake: foregoing a film because of the hype surrounding it or the celebrity starring in it.

Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flowers" (2005) is a laconic Odyssey, metered in deadpan pauses, departing solitude to arrive in the present.