* Slate’s Daniel Engber makes the case for Eyes Wide Shut as a Christmas movie.
* Rob Humanick adds to the ever-popular “ostentatious display of virtuoso filmmaking equals emotionally false bullshit” genre, this time regarding the retreat at Dunkirk in Atonement.
* Giallo Fever’s Keith Brown highlights an interesting-sounding book called After Hitchcock, a scholarly look at the Master’s influence as seen in post-Psycho horror, giallo, ’70s paranoia thrillers, The Silence of the Lambs, the work of Brian DePalma (duh), and more.
* “Rodents of unusual size? I don’t think they exist.” Wrong again!
* CNN’s Ismael Estrada reports on how Missouri-based serial killer Timothy Krajcir used his education in criminal justice to evade police for years.
* Finally,
