Odds and Ends

1) Amazon is now offering movie-streaming Netflix-style. All you need is to be a "Prime" member ($79/year), which has been for free 2-day shipping until today.

2) EW's list of best working directors is here. If I'm posting it, it ain't because Tom Hooper's #1. Full list after the jump.

1. David Fincher
2. Christopher Nolan
3, Steven Spielberg
4. Martin Scorsese
5. Darren Aronofsky
6. Joel and Ethan Coen
7. Quentin Tarantino
8. Terrence Malick
9. Clint Eastwood
10. Pedro Almodovar
11. Paul Thomas Anderson
12. Guillermo del Toro
13. Roman Polanski
14. Danny Boyle
15. Kathryn Bigelow
16. David O. Russell
17. David Lynch
18. James Cameron
19. Peter Jackson
20. Edgar Wright
21. Spike Lee
22. J.J. Abrams
23. Brad Bird
24. Mike Leigh
25. Wes Anderson

I would have dropped # 9, 10, 12, 14, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25 for Michael Mann, Alfonso Cuaron, Ridley Scott, Sydney Lumet, David Cronenberg, Rian Johnson, Peter Weir, Fernando Meirelles, Sam Mendes, and Steven Soderbergh (no particular order).