• Okay, we KNOW this is really late AND that we decided to cut back on the GWH news, but this is pretty exciting stuff. “Good Will Hunting” not only took 4th place in The National Board of Review’s top 10 films this year, but also the “Special Achievement in Filmmaking” award. This is definitely quite an award for Matt & Ben, and we send our (belated) congratulations!

Dave Bednar and Frank Caira get scooper’s honors for this one.

• Rumor has it that there’s gonna be 3 special guests at VulgarThon. If you’d like to know who they are, or KNOW who they are, maybe they can let us know? We’ll post a spoiler alert with the names for those of you that would like to be surprised. Anyway, stay tuned for more info. We’ll pass it on if we get it. Thanks to Melissa for getting the scoop to us first.

• We’ve checked several sources, and, although the Criterion Site STILL says to expect the Chasing Amy laserdisc on January 17th, we fear that the disc won’t be arriving until December 31st, in typical late laserdisc style. Why must they always wait until the LAST MINUTE to announce a delay? Augh! Guess we won’t be seeing any of those suckers under Christmas trees this year, but at least (we hope) the disc will still be in our hands in time for Vulgarthon. We’ll inform you ASAP if the date changes again. Ken Crane’s is usually pretty on the money though when it comes to releases.