* Guillermo Del Toro is directing The Hobbit and its sequel. I don’t know how to feel about this.

* I am at least enthusiastic about the idea of the second film in this particular package, which lots of people seem really confused about but which seems to be pretty clearly about both Gandalf’s doings when he wasn’t hanging with the dwarves during the events of The Hobbit proper and the subsequent doings of, I’m guessing, Gandalf and Aragorn prior to the start of The Lord of the Rings. That’s what I got out of Del Toro’s interview on TheOneRing.net, anyway. (Via Kristin Thompson.)

* “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” Absolutely hilarious.

* Battlestar Galactica‘s Nicki “Cally” Clyne blogs her (spoilery, duh) thoughts on last week’s episode.

* Tom Spurgeon thought the New York Comic Con was a terrible place for people who enjoy comics.

* The Onion A.V. Club’s Scott Tobias has a piece on The Blair Witch Project, the scariest movie I’ve ever seen, that’s one of the better things I’ve read on the movie to date. (Via Keith Uhlich.)

* Here’s the second half of Jimmy Kimmel’s interview with Lost‘s Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof. I like the tone of it better than the first half.

* Final Girl’s Stacie Ponder presents a Clive Barker edition of her regular feature, Awesome Movie Poster Friday.

* Ken Parille has put together a striking collection of images to illustrate the influence, unconscious or otherwise, of cartoonist Daniel Clowes on cartoonist Rich Tommaso.

* Jordan Crane’s cover for Uptight #3 is fantastic.

* Finally, this week’s Horror Roundtable is about the one horror-movie prop we’d most like to own. I’ll give you three guesses as to what mine is, and the first two don’t count.

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