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The official site for The Golden Compass is live. The site has some new photos and production/concept drawings up, as well a guide to Lyra's World, our first looks at Lord Asriel (Daniel Craig), Lee Scoresby (Sam Elliott), Fra Pavel (Simon McBurney) and the Gyptians.
This should not be as touching and funny as it is: trailer for mother-daughter comedy Because I Said So, starring Diane Keaton, and Lauren Graham, Piper Perabo and Mandy Moore as her daughters. [imdb]
Quicktime trailer for Breach, a thriller based on the true story of an FBI agent who sold secrets to the USSR. Stars Chris Cooper and Ryan Phillippe, with a supporting cast including Laura Linney, Bruce Davison, and Dennis Heysbert. [imdb]
Watch the preview for the next episode of Heroes (due back in January) at YouTube.
Emine Saner at The Guardian talks to Rufus Sewell: "I'd get scripts and I'd think, 'What am I playing?' Suddenly on page 14, it's 'We see a dark shadow of a man on a horse, he has a thin slash of a cruel mouth.' You just think, 'Oh, fuck off.'"
Andrew O'Hehir (Salon) on Mel Gibson's Apocalypto: "Ours is a culture of gawkers, and none of us can completely resist the spectacle of a disturbed guy -- who used to just be a movie star -- projecting his own violent fantasies in public and repeatedly enacting his own crucifixion. Let's not pretend there's anything healthy about it."
Elizabeth Merrick at Blog of a Bookslut has fallen hard for The Wire, and Omar Little: "I really, really want the Democratic party to study Omar Little. If you're going up against people who will do anything to hold onto their power and are destroying entire cities (countries, planets) in the process, you want Omar on your side, with his shotgun, whistling "The Farmer in the Dell" and watching the streets clear."