The big story
Long live the geeks! Whether they be stuttering monarchs or slightly sociopathic software whizz-kids, it was all about the nerd at this year's Golden Globes nominations. The Social Network, David Fincher's Facebook drama, which has been hoovering up the majority of the awards so far, picked up six nominations, as did Mark Whalberg sweat-fest The Fighter, while our own The King's Speech, about the late monarch's sessions with an Aussie speech therapist, pipped them both with seven. A slight, nice, shock, though even patriotism can't dampen Peter Bradshaw's scepticism over the result. More surprises: nothing for True Grit; two in the same category for Johnny Depp.
In the news
• Winona Ryder: Mel Gibson called me an 'oven dodger'
• White supremacists urge Thor boycott over casting of black actor as Norse god
• Matt Damon in talks to star in Neill Blomkamp's Elysium
• David Lynch tackles post-traumatic stress with transcendental meditation
• Colin Firth: I no longer support the Liberal Democrats
• Hollywood's 'Black List' of best unproduced scripts of 2010 revealed
• Jonathan Ross takes stake in French film channel
• One hit, 46 misses: Iron Man 2 is 2010's movie with the most mistakes
• Rush Limbaugh hits out at Michael Moore over help for Julian Assange
• Eminem's film career enters round two with boxing movie Southpaw
• Ralph Fiennes's Coriolanus lined up for assault on Berlin film festival
• Film industry seeks BT blocking order in Newzbin2 piracy case
• Sacha Baron Cohen could play racist cop Torrente in Hollywood remake
• Another Jimi Hendrix film project disappears into the haze
• BFI to cut 37 jobs and close gallery
RIP Blake Edwards
The actor-turned-director who found success with Breakfast at Tiffany's and the Pink Panther films passed away on Thursday. You can look back over his career in photos and in clips.
On the blog
• Between the lines on A Serbian Film: when allegory gets nasty
• Hollywood report on audiences leave Narnia in chronicle pain and hop off The Tourist trail
• A Christian minister writes: all is well with Narnia
• Will Tron: Legacy make Disney a long-game winner?
• UK box office: Dawn Treader trips up, The Tourist gets lost and Somewhere goes nowhere
• Flick teaser: It's a blond man's world: Thor v Masters of the Universe
• Clip joint: henchmen
• The gloves are on again for Eminem and boxing movie mania
• Reality sucks in the multiplex
• Is Terrence Malick back on top with The Tree of Life?
• Week in geek: Should Jon Favreau have cast Iron Man 3 and Marvel aside for Disney?
Other site highlights
• On the podcast Jason Solomons spoke to Nev Schulman, the subject of slippery documentary Catfish and to British director Richard Bracewell, whose thriller Cuckoo is also out this Friday.
• Back in the game: Paul MacInnes met Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner, stars of both Trons
• After Unrelated: watch an exclusive trailer for Joanna Hogg's Archipelago
In the paper today
• Nirpal Dhaliwal on how Bollywood is starting to deal with India's caste system
• Xan Brooks on the year the alpha nerds kicked ass
• Anne Billson on why we love discussing "faux" documentaries
• Joe Queenan on Mel Gibson's year of living disastrously
Coming up in the paper
On Saturday, Michael Sheen talks about his family values, and Steve Rose gives us his top kick-ass heroes and heroines of the cinematic year. In the Observer, Elizabeth Day meets Clémence Poésy, star of Harry Potter and 127 Hours, Dolph Lungren shares what he knows and Killian Fox on the brave new world of short films online. Plus, Mark Kermode rounds up the best DVDs not just of the week, but those little gems you may have missed through the year.
Online todat
An exclusive clip from a little film called The King's Speech, plus a blog on how the movies came down with the viral bug, and much more.
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