Slim pickens this weeks, kids, as all my work wound up sadly The Iron Lady-related. Pan here and listicle on actors who actually look like the famous people they’re playing here (Meryl’s MT only gets a drive-by mention.
Just remembered I neglected to post shameless plugs here last week, which is lame. Reviewed Angelina Jolie’s Bosnian saga In the Land of Blood and Honey. More charitably, I devoted Six Pack to a sextet of worthwhile 2011 films that, for whatever reason, never played Philadelphia theatrically. The list could go on and on. At deadline, I hadn’t yet seen Elia Suleiman’s offbeat Israel piece The Time That Remains, and I’m still kicking myself for choosing Ong Bak 3 over Cold Weather (which I did to create a more diverse list, but whatever). But I’m glad I finally had a chance to say kind words re: Matthew Porterfield’s Putty Hill (pictured).