• Steve Martin: banjo enthusiast. [CNN]

• The complete “Terminator” timeline. [Empire]

• Speaking of which, Ben Child spends some time with the best part of “Terminator Salvation,” actor Anton Yelchin. [The Guardian]

• Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula ascend at Searchlight. [indieWIRE]

• Brooks Barnes on the swath of upstarts leaping into the CGI animation fray. [New York Times]

• Revisiting the summer of 1997. [Cinematical]

• Nathaniel Rogers does some Oscar predix clean-up, joins the “Precious” train. [The Film Experience]

• John Horn previews this weekend’s Produced By Conference with a producers roundtable. [Los Angeles Times]

• Top 10 hockey moments in non-hockey movies.  Yeah. [Premiere]

• Alonso Duralde on the many faces of Vegas on celluloid. [MSNBC]

• Patrick Goldstein wants to know why Israel’s biggest box office success of 2008 has yet to secure U.S. distribution. [The Big Picture]