TheCinemaSource went back up early last weekend to all of our great relief; for today only, it's down again, but that's on purpose this time as we switch to a new server. We're also spending this whole week getting up-to-date on stuff we fell behind on during the absence.

So since I can't direct you to any new content at the moment, how about some honest-to-goodness personal photos of celebrities? I snapped these atrocious-quality shots on my camera phone when I was at a press conference for Semi-Pro yesterday:



Fun, huh? And as always here are some Lost musings over the past week or so from DailyLost.com...

Remember "Raised by Another"?
So Why was it Called "Eggtown"?...Thoughts on Last Night
EW's interview with Lindelof and Cuse: A "Mind-Blowing Scoop"
Evolution of a Lost Cast 2004-2008
The Case for (and Against) Sayid in the Coffin

And in fact, I'm about to write another post now featuring what Matthew Fox said about Lost at a Vantage Point press day I went to last week, so check that out. It's nothing whatsoever mindblowing, but hey, it's Matthew Fox.

Frequent readers of mine might have noticed that TheCinemaSource has been down the past couple of days. It's because of really annoying server memory issues that are too maddening to get into here, but the good news is that we're switching servers entirely very soon - and then not only will we be back up, we'll be running more smoothly.

Normally I would be sitting here directing you to my Spiderwick Chronicles and Jumper reviews (I'm thinking B+ for the former and B- or C+ for the latter), but since that's impossible, we do luckily have new content of another sort. A few days ago me and fellow TheCinemaSource staffer Andrea Tuccillo attended the red carpet premiere of Jumper and nabbed a few quickie interviews. I edited the video footage into a little piece and put it up on our YouTube channel; you can check it out below. Sadly, I'm not in the video at all, because I'm the one holding the camera.



In other news, here are some of the articles I've posted to DailyLOST lately:

Random Initial Thoughts: "The Economist"
Maps of the Island
Spoilers for Tonight's "The Economist"
Breaking News: 5 Additional Episodes to Air!
Showrunners Lindelof and Cuse are back to work!
Whoops, I forgot to tell you last Thursday's ratings.
I Know Who Ben's "Man on the Boat" Is (probable spoilers)
The Writers Guild and Studios Make a Deal! (So Does That Mean We Get a Full Season?)

You'll notice that a few of those articles address the Writers Guild strike being over, which I wasn't able to fully cover on TheCinemaSource this week. (Most writers didn't actually go back to work until Wednesday.) My thoughts on the resolution? In general, it's a very good thing.

Yes, I think the AMPTP was very evil throughout the situation, especially by walking away from the table right before Christmas, enacting force majeur, and hiring spin doctors to help write ridiculously offense press releases. And no, the writers didn't get everything they wanted - no DVD residuals (that was off the table early), no reality and animation jurisdiction, and lower Internet residuals than they were asking for, with a lame 17-day window for "promotional use" on some types.

Then again, they got a much better deal than the AMPTP wanted to give them, certainly, and the strike was the direct result of that. The first real sign that it was working was when the Directors Guild got their own solid deal in part thanks to the leverage the strike provided. The Writers Guild deal improved on that one in some areas; they secured a residual system for Internet streaming and downloading; and they managed to change the payment equation from the "producer's gross" (basically a sum easily manipulated to cheat the writers out of money) to the "distributor's gross" (which is how much money stuff actually makes).

Plus, maybe this way, that production company I sent a screenplay to the day before the strike started will finally get back to me. Yeah, that'll definitely happen.

I never gave my weekly TheCinemaSource update last week because I didn't write any reviews or spotlights last week - and that's because, and I don't mind stressing this, January is utter crap for new movies.

Now that the wretched taste of Untraceable is finally out of my mouth, though, things are looking up. I've got two reviews for you this weekend, and next week I'm covering both Jumper and The Spiderwick Chronicles...the latter of which is not only pretty good, but will have the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull teaser attached to it.

The current two reviews: In Bruges - which you should definitely see - and Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show, which was decent (but between you and me, probably not worth shelling out $12 bucks for).

In other news, on my Lost blog - that's http://www.dailylost.com/ if you forgot - here's a list of all the posts I've done thus far. I put up at least one a day though - usually two - and there are two other regular contributors with good stuff as well - so you should really just make it one of your regular destinations. Don't you think?

From most recent to least recent:
Perspective on Lost (literally)
Initial Thoughts on "Confirmed Dead"
Jorge Garcia Tells Us What's What
Meet the Other Others
Lost Parody Pics 2008
Piecing together the clues of the Oceanic Six's secret
Who is Jacob? We're getting closer...
It's Good to Be Ratings King (Again)
First reactions to "The Beginning of the End"
The Top 5 Things I Hope Happen on Tonight's Premiere
'Twas the Night Before Season 4