• Edna Gundersen talks to Sir Paul McCartney about his musical addition to Kirk Jones’s “Everybody’s Fine.” [USA Today]

• In praise of the opening sequence of Michael Mann’s “Ali.” [The Auteurs Notebook]

• Pete Hammond reports from Monday night’s premiere of “Up in the Air.” [Notes on a Season]

• On the biggest flops of the decade. [Hollywood Reporter]

• Tom O’Neil notes that certain potential ratings snaggers in the original song category can’t be nominated because they weren’t in on the composing. [Gold Derby]

• Steve Pond on the real winners and losers of the Indie Spirit Award nominees. [The Odds]

• James Horner: “Scoring Avatar has been the most difficult job I’ve done.” [The Times]