• Stop the presses, Tom O’Neil meets the Carpetbagger at the Globes. [Gold Derby]
• Scott Foundas on the “Gomorrah” foreign committee snub. [LA Weekly]
• David Poland talks to Mike Leigh and Sally Hawkins. [The Hot Blog]
• David Carr is stoked about the “new kind of prom queen” Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” represents. [The Carpetbagger]
• It’s likely to become a tired (if true) trend: David Gritten calls the film “the first film of the Obama era.” [Daily Telegraph]
• Patrick Goldstein considers “Gran Torino” reason enough to warrant a Clint Eastwood class on acting career management. [The Big Picture]