About three days' backlog of linkspam

So I saw The Queen on Friday night. I really liked it, and it strikes me as more and more well-done (better and better done?) the more I think about it. But I'm not sure it's a Best Picture, really--I still feel like that's a slot that should have gone to Pan's Labyrinth, because the movie basically is Helen Mirren's performance. I mean, it lives and dies on that performance, and ideally a Best Picture needs more heft than that. At the same time, the movie makes some good, subtle points that we would usually get hit over the head with. ( Spoiler discussion )

(I'm reasonably all right healthwise, by the way--once I'd thrown up the antibiotics, I felt a hell of a lot better.)

On to the linkspam--it looked for a while like I was going to see Pan's Labyrinth this afternoon, but that may be later this week. Instead, we're going to catch Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban on IMAX at the McWane--I've never seen an IMAX movie before, so this should be interesting.

Speaking of Harry Potter:

The complications of translating Harry Potter. Tom Elvis Jedusor?

BBC to seek 'real' Harry Potter. "The BBC is to launch a reality series which will follow a group of children learning magic at a Harry Potter-style boarding school." Oh, this is going to end well. And by "well" I mean "as a rip-off series in the U.S."

Georgia woman still thinks she has a chance at getting people to ban Harry Potter. What I find hilarious is that if she did have a snowball's chance in hell, which she doesn't, Bloomsbury and Warner Bros. would take up an office pool to hire a hitman of some kind, because Harry Potter is serious big business.

( Linkspam proper )

ETA: Well, shit. I just realized that I'm going to be missing the Screen Actors Guild awards. So, uh... don't look for any blogging on that account.