Fol­low­ers of The Dork Report (a sta­tis­tic which I believe can be plot­ted on an arc approach­ing zero) may have noticed an accu­mu­la­tion of dig­i­tal dust this past year. Indeed, this Dork Reporter watched his own blog drop off the first page of Google results for his own name. Who’s feel­ing lucky?

A new year, another birth­day (good gravy I’m old), and my some­what strong per­sonal reac­tion to the movie Clover­field recently moved me to qui­etly re-inaugurate this poor old thing. I’m in the early stages of ham­mer­ing the basic baked-in blog tem­plate into a new design direc­tion, which I ask read­ers to please over­look for the time being.

I still saw a lot of movies over the past year that I’d have liked to talk about in these pages. So com­ing up next are a series of posts that no one asked for and are almost cer­tainly too late any­way: a review of the best (in my opin­ion) & worst (also, alas, in my opin­ion) films of 2007 (that I’ve seen, mind you).

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