top of the year brings August: Osage County with an amazing cast in a film adapted from one of the best plays of recent years. It is going to be very good.

Stupid subject matter almost always results in a stupid film.

I'm going to see it because I didn't follow the story as closely as I would have liked.

Now that other countries are screaming about our spying, I'm even more interested.

Or the drama over Wikileaks. There is this compulsive need lately in Hollywood to make films out of current events and political tripe. People want fiction, they want to escape.

I probably won't even bother when it comes to On Demand.

To me "12 Years a Slave" looks like a much more compelling story.

so close to the actual event, because some of them need to be seen in a deeper, wider context as time passes (i.e., that movie about the Facebook founder)...

It is possible to successfully pull off (All the President's Men), but very rare...

The results and repercussions haven't all trickled in. No matter what you think about Assange, the story isn't over yet.

Cumberbatch calls his fans Cumberbitches? Pathetic.

See also Parliamentary Elections, Australia.

I imagine that his stint as Smaug will do better box office, as did his role as Khan.

I can't imagine what would draw me to such a thing. I'm up to here with Julian Assange already, and was just relaxing, since he's been out of the news lately. All holed up in an embassy, he seems to have dropped from sight, pretty much, and that's a good thing.

This movie will fail, big time. Nobody cares about Julian Assange.

on Showtime or HBO. I expect that 98% of the population have no idea who Assange is or cares.