suggestions

John, FINALLY! Everyone needs to see Dr. Horrible. It's on NWI. I was actually wondering if you'd watched it or not just yesterday because I began Season 2 of Dollhouse on NWI. I'll have a Dollhouse post once I finish it tomorrow.

Jeffery, I know that you asked Brandon for a list of film blogs but I thought I'd share a few. Actually, I'm pretty sure that all of these came as a suggestion from either Brandon or John.

Cinema Viewfinder
SLIFLR
The Movie Snob
Self-Styled Siren
Some Came Running
Offscreen - not a blog but has some of the best essays I've read. Check out the two-parter on ANTICHRIST

Also, and I hope John doesn't mind, I pasted an email below from him about film-related podcasts.

"Off the top of my head, here are some film-related podcasts that I listen to now and then...

Filmspotting
Battleship Pretension
Comedy Film Nerds
Doug Loves Movies
The /Filmcast
The Q&A With Jeff Goldsmith
The Treatment (I'm not sure if Elvis Mitchell is still doing this)
The CriterionCast
The IFC Podcast
The House Next Door guys used to do a podcast; something like GrassRoots Tavern. I think there's even a New World episode floating around out there.
I think that NPR has a movie or entertainment podcast.

There's at least a dozen others that I've tried, but I can't remember them and don't listen to them regularly.

The above are some of the big ones anyway. I usually listen to them selectively based on movies reviewed or which guests are on. Out of all of the above, I probably listen to Doug Loves Movies the most. The Battleship Pretension guys are fun to listen to because they'll often have LA comedians on as guests. Same with Comedy Film Nerds. If you like both movies and comedy, them these three shows can be a lot of fun.

Unfortunately, there's no really good academic material out there. There's a great series of lectures on the history and development of the Western available through ITunes U, from Wesleyan University, I think, but I can't remember the prof's name.