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I didn't watch the Critic's Choice Awards, because it's usually really boring. Instead, I decided to just look at the winners for a sneak peek at who the Globes winners might be. The Social Network won best picture, which is fine, I guess. It was good or whatever, but I think Black Swan was better. Although, for mass appeal, I think The Social Network was the right one - more people have seen it and it's about something relavent and happening. Whatever. Natalie Portman and Christian Bale won, which makes me extremely happy. The King's Speech won a bunch, and I haven't seen that one yet, but I'm not surprised. Colin Firth is awesome. Toy Story 3 won best animated, and if that goes any differently at the Globes, I will be surprised. The other nominated animated films were good and all, but I don't think any of them kept my attention like that one did. Although, The Princess and the Frog was really good too - but come on, Pixar is the best. Inception

I have talked a lot about the pathetic and disappointing movies that have been out this year so far... This is not one of them. Black Swan , starring the amazing Natalie Portman, is amazing. It's creepy and disturbing and visually very interesting and complicated and amazing. I suppose it fits into the category of psychological thriller or something. It's one of those movies you don't even want to say anything about because it's so weird but great. Anyway, I can say that the casting was great - Natalie Portman, that creepy French guy as the choreographer/head of the ballet, Mila Kunis (who you would think would be awful but was great), and whoever played Natalie Portman's mother, she was like mommy dearest it was great. I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, so you should just watch it and let it unfold. The hallucinations are the best/worst because they are so shocking (for me, anyway) but really are the best part. Anyway, see this movie. R

I really like Mark Wahlberg as an actor. Add in Batman (Christian Bale), and it seems like you'd have a pretty good movie on your hands. In general, boxing/wrestling movies seem to do really well ( Million Dollar Baby , Rocky , Cinderella Man , The Wrestler ), but I feel like there have been a lot of those lately. Kind of played out a bit, you know? This film is about Mark Wahlberg (Micky) being trained by his brother, Batman, who used to be a pretty well-known fighter (he fought Sugar Ray) - someone is shooting a documentary about him, and it's assumed at first that it's about him training his brother, but you find out later that it's about crack addiction. First of all, Christian Bale (Dickie) is a creepy looking guy when he's thin - remember The Machinist ? Yikes. But it definitely works for him in this movie, because he plays a guy who was famous and now is, you know, not. I'm just saying though, Batman loses forty pounds and looks like a meth addict. I mean