Film Links #1

1. Why shoot a gun with a side grip? Because they do it in the movies!

2. An aggregation of "best of the noughties" movie lists at Slate (pointer: TSPTD, which links to many more lists than Slate used and will publish its own aggregation later this month) and a similar list at Metacritic

3. From Wikipedia: A list of films which are in the public domain in the USA

4. A seventy-minute explanation of what's wrong with The Phantom Menace. Tyler Cowen recommends it despite moments in poor taste, and I agree.