• Pete Hammond follows up on the Academy’s foreign screenings, plus more. [Notes on a Season]

• Like me, Steven Zeitchik senses a little “Slumdog” in “Precious.” [Risky Business]

• David Poland catches some intriguing similarities between the recently released “Invictus” and a number of other posters from Eastwood flicks. [The Hot Blog]

• Rodrigo Perez takes the post-festival Oscar temperature. [The Playlist]

• Patrick Goldstein wonders how Fox Searchlight was stuck with a “turkey” like “Amelia.” [The Big Picture]

• Meanwhile, the press parade for the film takes flight across the pond, as James Mottram sits down with Hilary Swank. [The Independent]

• McPaper sends Claudia Puig out to write the least insightful review of “Antichrist” imaginable.  It’ll be interesting to see if female critics respond any differently than male critics, though. [USA Today]

• But then, A.O. Scott (who has the gall to find the film “dull”) may have just answered the question.  But he totally misses the point of a key line in order to make it his punchline.  Lazy.  [New York Times]

• Orson Welles: the most glorious film failure of all time. [The Guardian]

• Anne Thompson bends Carlos de Abreu and the Hollywood Film Festival over her knee and spanks the living daylights out of them. [Thompson on Hollywood]

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