I pretty much got nothin’ in the way of actual movie news or insight this week, folks, so instead please enjoy Burbanked’s First Annual Christmas Elf Dance-Tacular:

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

(made at the ever-terrific JibJab; found via SpoutBlog)

This has really got to be the most unintentionally hilarious movie still I’ve ever seen. I’d Photoshop it somehow, but I don’t really know how to make it any more strange.It’s just so very, very sad, like Knightley is desperate not to be cast in any more of these overblown period pieces where she’ll be [...]

Absolutely go visit the Dads in Media Blog-a-thon going on throughout the weekend over at RC’s terrific Strange Culture site. Plenty of fatherly advice, classic cinematic dad remembrances and more to be found there!
It’s impossible to separate the practice of fatherhood from the frequent and consistent dispensing of advice. Every day I make a [...]

Hands-down, one of my very favorite actresses working today – or, truly, ever – has to be Keira Knightley. Her unique and fresh presence, exemplified by not only her dazzling and varied acting performances but also her stunning, natural beauty, should be an inspiration to other troubled starlets of Hollywood. And now we find out [...]

Take a bunch of celebrity quotes out of context, mix ‘em all up so that they’re either incomprehensible or deviantly amusing and what have you got? Why, it’s the becoming-ever-more-famous-in-my-fantasies Burbanked McBlockquote Interview!
Today we’ve got a special treat: it’s the first McBlockquote Roundtable in which we listen in as a handful of idiot summer [...]

ring-ring. ring-ring.
“Yes, hello, this is Keira Knightley here talking to you on the phone now.”
“Why, yes, Warren, how are you?” pause. “I’m sorry…?”
“Yes, and Warren – how do I know you again? What is it that you do?”
“OH! You’re Publicity Warren. That’s right. I was thinking that you were the Warren who cuts the crusts [...]

…because, in all the excitement, she never got around to generating an actual, genuine-looking smile.

Look, Keira, we get the whole “I have terrific cheekbones” thing that you’ve read about yourself eight dozen times. We know that coming across as sunken, aloof and reserved is, for reasons that have been created far outside the boundaries of [...]