Before I catch the train which I'll be on for the rest of the day, a few links:

Penny Dreadful: Titan Books will do a comics prequel, which on the one hand, yay, on the other, will the medium be able to catch the glorious screwed upness of the Vanessa and Malcolm relationship, which, let's be real, is what I most want from a prequel?

Black ( Read more... )

Oscars: I was happy for the films I had already seen, like The Cove or Up, was pleased for Christoph Waltz as I had liked him since Der große Reibach, was even happier for Katheryn Bigelow, and not "just" because of the gender breakthrough (took you long enough, academy!) - Near Dark, Strange Days, Blue Steel are all films I found very captivating ( Read more... )

Local concerns first: having watched and awarded Spielzeugland myself last month when I was in the short film jury, I was thrilled to bits it won for best live action short film. Yay Jochen Freydank! (Also, the name of either movie or director isn't that difficult to pronounce, guys. Sheesh ( Read more... )

Oscar nominations: I squeed when I saw Spielzeugland - aka the one I just gave an award to at the end of the Short Film Festival in Bamberg - got nominated for best life action short film. I really hope it wins, because it rocks and the director, who was at the festival, appears to be a great guy.

Meanwhile, consider me amazed Der Baader Meinhoff ( Read more... )