Saturday Hot Links

Here are today’s hot links!

And what better way to start than with Christian Bale singing “The Powerpuff Girls” theme song:

Salon with memorable film and TV Shakespeare adaptations.

The top 10 movies of 2010 per Twitter.

And per Roger Ebert.

And while we’re at here is the IMDB list of their top 10 movies of the year. 

Nicole Kidman’s forehead: An Animated Retrospective.

Why Jon Favreau is moving away from the Iron Man franchise.

Who doesn’t love Withnail & I? So who wouldn’t love 5 minutes with Richard E. Grant.

Scott W. Smith gets a big H/T for sending me this link: a 2005 New Yorker feature on TV writer and creative herald David Milch.

The 2011 Sundance FF adds three movies including a feature-length acid trip.

Stereotyping you by the movies you like.

17 minutes 2001: A Space Odyssey new footage found.

For those of you wondering what Charlie Kaufman is up to, maybe a project reuniting him with Spike Jonze.

Author Michael Connelly rescues his character Harry Bosch from Hollywood development hell. 

A nice feature on “Doonesbury” at 40 years in the LAT. One of my prized possessions is autographed photo of the HBO series “Tanner ‘88” from Gary Trudeau.

The “Morgan Freeman is dead” fiasco analyzed here. Long live Morgan Freeman!

So what do you give 11 principal cast members of Avatar if it’s Christmas and your James Cameron? Why give each of them a blue Prius, of course.

Okay, this is perhaps the best marriage proposal ever. Think Muppets. Fake movie trailer. And taking your beloved to a movie theater surprising her with said fake movie trailer. 

Via MentalFloss: 10 Works of Literature That Were Really Hard to Write.

The key to winning film awards: oral sex scenes?

Or perhaps you should direct your filmmaking instincts in a more educated fashion such as the new Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image.

Vulture ranks movie strippers by just how gold their hearts are. 

In the spirit of the season, here is Jabba the Hutt singing “Silent Night”.

And while we’re going Yuletide, for eco-friendly Santas: vegan algae cookies and milk. 

Also just in time for Christmas: The 9 best free iPhone apps.

FlavorWire with 2010?s Blockbusters as Judged by Kim Jong-Il.

Finally check out Russell Brand improvising in character for Julie Taymor’s film The Tempest, where he plays the jester Trinculo. Incredible mind!

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Enjoy your hot links!