• Steve Pond gets Danny Boyle’s thoughts on this rash of faintings at screenings of “127 Hours.” [The Odds]
• Sasha Stone calls 2010 (so far) one of the best years for film in recent history. [Awards Daily]
• “Megamind” gets Josh Wigler thinking about the best animated villains of all time. [MTV Movies Blog]
• Marc Lee on the best of Mike Leigh. [Daily Telegraph]
• David Poland runs down a stacked Best Actor field. [Movie City News]
• Ditto Pete Hammond. [Deadline]
• Jeffrey Wells, meanwhile, sings Rachel McAdams’s praises in “Morning Glory” and notes that the performance is doomed for Oscar because of lack of suffering. [Hollywood Elsewhere]
• Cinema Eye announces nonfiction film nominees for 2011 honors. [Cinema Eye Honors]
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