Jon endorses Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain.

We also mention:

• Gosling in Drive
• Girl With a Dragon Tattoo
• Moneyball
• Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
• Brad Bird and The Iron Giant
• EW.com Fall Movie Preview
• Spiderman, Batman, Avengers and Superman
• Bridesmaids, Hangover II, Terrible Bosses, and The Change Up
• The Adventures Tin Tin
• The second Sherlock Holmes movie
• The Iron Lady
• My Week With Marilyn, Colin Clark, and The Prince and The Showgirl
• Contagion, The Bourne Ultimatum,  The Informant, Saramago’s Blindness and Outbreak
• The Killer Elite remake
• Jason Reitman’s Young Adult
• The Rum Diary, Diablo Cody and Juno
• Jason Reitman on The Slash Filmcast
• In Time, Gattaca, The Truman Show
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• The Casual Optimist
• The Wire
• The Muppets
• Mark Strong
• Cameron Crowe’s Oeuvre, Elizabethtown, Pearl Jam Twenty, We Bought A Zoo
• Ides of March
• xkcd.com, cancer, Jack Layton, Steve Jobs
• Sloan Crosley @askanyone, How Did You Get this Number, and Frozen Ground
• David Rakoff, David Sedaris, The Cosby Show
• Haddon’s Curious Incident Of Dog in The Night Time
• Ayrton Senna ‘s biopic
• Navy SEAL Jon Tumilson and his dog Hawkeye