* Holy smokes–the hour-plus of footage that’s been lost from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis for 80 years has been found in a museum in Buenos Aires! (Via AICN.)
* Meet a man-made water monster: the Sawfish Submersible Chainsaw, designed to fell submerged trees. You know, until it falls into the wrong hands.
* At The House Next Door, Sheila O’Malley waxes rhapsodic on the career of the great William Holden.
* Your quote of the day comes from Jim Treacher on Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight:
I read some critic saying he deserves an Oscar. Which seems far-fetched for a superhero movie, but then again he’s dead and Academy voters respect that.
* Finally, I feel like it’s been a while since we’ve seen a good old-fashioned indiscriminate spree-killer like Nicholas T. Shelley, whose eight victims in Illinois and Missouri over the past week or two include, “among others, a 93-year-old man, a child and a couple whose blood-soaked dogs were found roaming a motel parking lot.”