Blog From The Bench

Clint Eastwood's upcoming 'Letters From Iwo Jima' was pronounced Best Film by the National Board of Review this week, a film most of us won't get to see until February. Could Oscar gold go to a movie almost no one watching the telecast has viewed?

They also called 'The Devil Wears Prada' one of the best of the year, which I can't back - it was mildly enjoyable, but pretty generic in a lot of ways, and made charicters do things seemingly out of their established personalities for the sake of the story's contrivances.