Marshall Fine of THE HUFFINGTON POST submitted a glowing review of Wes Anderson’s FANTASTIC MR. FOX this morning. “Anderson's delicious take on life and movies may amuse youngsters - but not as much as it will tickle adults, with its delightfully anthropomorphized forest creatures who can't quite escape their animal nature,” he writes, sounding painfully similar to reviews of WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (more).

On Monday night, the New York Public Library hosted an evening with director Wes Anderson (RUSHMORE, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS) in conversation with screenplay co-writer Noah Baumbach (THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, MARGOT AT THE WEDDING) about FANTASTIC MR. FOX. Attending the event, as I did, was much like watching two close friends sit down to dinner while onstage, making fun of themselves and laughing at their neuroses. At one point, Anderson mentioned how important the Scorsese film TAXI DRIVER was to him, especially while he was filming TENENBAUMS. Apparently, he and actor Owen Wilson regularly exchanged quotes from the movie until TAXI DRIVER quotations became their "only form of communication" on the set.

The two-time Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington will return to Broadway in “Fences”, a Pulitzer Prize-winning August Wilson play. Rehearsals will begin in the spring (more). Just this week, Washington was spotted in Bellaire shooting his new movie, UNSTOPPABLE (more). You could drive out there RIGHT NOW and track him down, or you could stay inside and watch PHILADELPHIA, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, or THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123. Every day, we are forced to make important decisions.